Ingham Co. EDACS

[rdale]

on the Clinton County Talkgroups can you hear the dispach calls

Yep - that was posted above (and added to the database.) There's no regularity in the transmissions, seemingly random.

Also Clinton Co Fire and some police traffic being simulcast on 08-001, 08-041 and 06-041 from time to time. No idea why.

 

[Batt91]

Some insight, for what its worth.

There has been some issues that have come up within the past 6-12 months regarding interoperability btween Ingham and Clinton Co. FDs.

1. The first issue was the general patch that was put into place by Clinton Co. on the 19P911 TG to their main PD Countywide dispatch. When I responded up to Bath Twp. on a mutual aid EMS call and contacted them on that TG, it created a lot of unwanted buzz and confusion. It turns out, they had our mutual aid TGs (TRICOMUT) in their system and we (the FD lay personnel) never knew it.

2. A HAZMAT training excersize was conducted at Looking Glass Fire Authority in the late fall, and it was realized that there was quite a delay in transmissions from their station (the site of the exercise) to the responding units. The quality of the radio traffic during the time that patch was set up (forgive me, I don't remember what TG we were on) was very poor.

Therefore, I do know they have been working fairly diligently to come up with a solution to this and many other problems that have persisted throughout the system. We now have a policy that states when we repond to Clinton Co. that we contact them on one of the TRICOMUT TGs, and we are in no way supposed to use 19P911. In the couple of weeks, it seems there has been a sudden increase in mutual aid calls into Clinton Co. I suspect the random nature of when Clinton Co. groups are heard or go active is only when they have mutual aid from Ingham Co. responding within their county. If I learn anything else I can share, I'll be sure to post.

 

[rdale]

I suspect the random nature of when Clinton Co. groups are heard or go active is only when they have mutual aid from Ingham Co. responding within their county.

That was my thought too, but I'll hear a request for medic for a patient transfer, then a trash fire in Ovid, then nothing for hours... The calls I'm hearing certainly are not related to mutual aid.

 

[Batt91]

???

Well, perhaps its just a matter of dispatcher's preference of whether the patch is up and operating or not. Also, it may simply be a case of where this sort of thing is new to them and they are "playing around" with it so they are familiar before they need to use it. I'll do some checking around with my contacts to see if I can find out more.

 

[rdale]

Thanks - I checked with my Clinton Co contact and he had no idea...

 

[MilbourM]

Clinton County Pach

19P911, if that is the talkgroup that our 19P911 patches from. would the fact that Clinton county's 19P911 is ProVoice digital. maybe it is a mix of analog and digital transmitions. and we only hear the analog trasmitions.

 

[rdale]

I'm not sure what you're asking, I can't recall ever hearing Clinton Co Sheriff on the Ingham system.

Ingham Sheriff Event 2 is now IC CAR - Sheriff Car to Car

 

[rdale]

Background for some of the tone-out patches (decimal ID's used):

746 is a patch of 305 & 561 for fire/EMS toneouts for East Lansing and MSU
757 is a patch of 337 and 561 for fire/EMS toneouts for Meridian Twp
1025 is a patch of 1057 and 1071 for Clinton Co toneouts (part-time)

 

[rdale]

On occasion I've had an issue with the PSR-500 where the audio drops out but shouldn't... Talked to the GRE team - and here's the fix:

Increase the "EndtoneEDACS" value in the FUNC-GLOB menu. Default is 10, 30 worked well for me.

 

[MilbourM]

Id 698

ID 698 I heard that id today at 2120 and just wondering if anyone else heard it also it sounded like a Law enforcement warning channel.

 

[rdale]

If you check the database - you'll see that's in the section with all the patches. Just means that the dispatcher put two L.E. talkgroups together.

 

[MilbourM]

MED Channles

Who uses the channles SPARROW, ST LAWR, ING MED. I ask because i still hear lots of talk on the conv. med channels. i am also wondering if we are going to make a full switch over to the channels on the Ingham TRS.

 

[rdale]

LFD uses them, I'm not sure what criteria determines MED vs EDACS.

 

[i5adam8]

We also use them at Stockbridge Ambulance.From what I can tell,it's just a preference of the on duty Paramedic or EMT.We still have all the UHF med channels cause we respond calls into other Counties.I try to use only the EDACS med channels when I call the Hospital.

 

[MilbourM]

thank you lots

 

[rdale]

Initial set of radio ID's:

Sheriff LEIN Private 105 0
LPD-N Dispatcher Private 108 0
LPD-S Dispatcher Private 109 0
Shrf Dispatcher Private 110 0
Fire Dispatcher Private 112 0
LFD Dispatcher Private 113 0
MPD Dispatcher Private 121 0
Engine 41 Private 1870 0
Medic 411 Private 1874 0
Battalion 49 Private 1880 0
Medic 41 Private 1882 0
Engine 42 Private 1900 0
Engine 43 Private 1908 0
Medic 49 Private 1932 0
Truck 46 Private 1938 0
Engine 47 Private 1952 0
Engine 48 Private 1960 0
Engine 45 Private 1996 0
Engine 49 Private 1998 0

 

[MilbourM]

need help with unitrunker,
how do i set it up
completely confused.

 

[rdale]

Start that in a different thread.

 

[mckaloz1]

So for the private radio ID's? Can we program them into our scanners and here that particular unit only? or what? and if so How do we program the codes AFS, DEC, or Hex?

 

[rdale]

If you have a PSR500/600, you enter them in decimal as private-call ID's, and put an alpha tag, and it will show that description when a user keys up.

I've found that even-numbered ID's > 500 are mobile units, odd-numbered are portables.