Johnston County Question

[JH2184]

I was wondering did JoCo cease traffic on the old Fire Main 154.340 channel? I only hear a new type of tone and the 800mhz channels now. No old sounding tones or traffic on the 154 anymore.

 

[richardbritt]

Can you record the tone and post about 10 seconds worth. Maybe we can help you figure out what it is.

 

[K4ASJ]

Joco has switched over to P25 paging for all fire and ems agencies. The old vhf frequency was taken offline and is no longer being used.

 

[yardbird]

Sounds like this a coming thing. With the invention of the G5 pager most departments are fading away from conventional VHF paging.

Rightfully so why not add a little more dollars and get a trunking pager where as a Minitor IV or VII is about the same price.

I can see this being the new era in personnel alerting, especially when the price of the G5 pager comes down.

If I am right East Side fire department over in Randolph County is using the G5's as well.

Do you know if they are still generating the same tones across P25? I know here where I live they are generating tones across the 800 Mhz to VHF patch.

Also how are they doing station siren alerts?

David

 

[richardbritt]

David, also lots of fire departments send out notifications using dedicated alert apps for over cell phones. I get message alerts, and I can click on that I am responding and everyone else on the call can see the others location on a map showing the dots moving (including the dispatcher). Just putting this out there in case others don't know this usually happens in the background. This is not a specific Johnson County remark, but about dispatching calls in general

Richard

 

[spencerwww]

David, also lots of fire departments send out notifications using dedicated alert apps for over cell phones. I get message alerts, and I can click on that I am responding and everyone else on the call can see the others location on a map showing the dots moving (including the dispatcher). Just putting this out there in case others don't know this usually happens in the background. This is not a specific Johnson County remark, but about dispatching calls in general

Richard

lot them use dispatch radio digital dipsatch channel tho they got tone channel or cahnnek talk to then ops and tac they asssigned to lot still use idspatchj tones but digital now because phones it self dont work and cads go down i didi ems and phones cad go down and there uselesss lot digital pagers are out now but they manily use dispatch channnels talk still chekc enroute on radio and rhrogh phone cad eta and turn to ops depending nature of calls