Is There A Wisconsin Standard For Certain Frequencies In Certain Channel Numbers?

[JASII]

The reason I ask this is because I am from Minnesota and the expectation, when we were VHF, was to have MINSEF as F-4. The general assumption was you could go in any law enforcement vehicle and MINSEF was in that channel position. It was never clear to me is Wisconsin has, or had, anything similar? I did have a friend tell me years ago that many had F-1 as the county main repeater, F-2 as simplex, car-to-car, talk-around, etc, F-3 as Point-To-Point, and F-4 as WISPERN. I was never really able to verify that.

Now, with higher channel capacity radios, things might be all over the place. Does anybody know if there is any sort of standard like that in Wisconsin now?

 

[kb9tyc]

No there is not and has never been that I am aware of.

 

[a1emt]

There are several statewide interoperability channels with standardized naming conventions that are used quite extensively.

Since there isn’t a standard for programming specific locations within a radio, the channels are to be identified by name.

Check out this document

https://dma.wi.gov/DMA/divisions/oec/library/2015/WI-FOG V1 OCTOBER2015 FULL SIZE.pdf

 

[sfd119]

Wisconsin Annex K: https://dma.wi.gov/DMA/divisions/oe...for Mutual Aid Communications Frequencies.pdf

 

[buddrousa]

Some times it is the radio shop that sets the channel order then other times it is set to the department needs or wants.

 

[sfd119]

Some times it is the radio shop that sets the channel order then other times it is set to the department needs or wants.

Yes, that's a given. OP is talking about Minnesota and Wisconsin standards. Some states do require grant radios to have channels in a specific order.

 

[buddrousa]

And to meet certain standards like some of the local dealers tell customers P25 means digital and DMR is digital and the get DMR radios with grant money they the customers are lucky as they have never been audited.