LA County MED-10 ops?

[AM909]

I'm trying to figure out if a radio can be used for Los Angeles County MED channel operations, where the procedure, as I understand it, is for an inbound to hail the hospital on MED-10 using that hospital's particular DTMF sequence and then move to the hospital's assigned MED-x freq/tone.

Has anyone listened to these recently, and is that what happens? Specifically, do they always immediately move off of MED-10 after just the signalling, or does the hospital answer and then change, or maybe they just stay on MED-10 for a couple quick back-and-forths?

(before someone says "MED channels aren't used any more", let's table that and assume we're talking about how it worked in the past)

 

[Mikerh91]

The short answer is yes the medical channels are still a requirement in LA County to make base station contact for paramedics. While they are still required, most paramedics contact the base hospital via cell phone.

They contact the base hospital on Med 10, Tone A, and then if they have a base run, the hospital switches the paramedic resource to the either the primary or secondary medical channel for the report.

VMED28 has a little bit more activity. Most of the time it is radio checks only.

 

[AM909]

Do they actually talk human-to-human on MED-10 before switching to another channel or is MED-10 (with tone A) just used for the mobile to signal the hospital to talk to them on the hospital's designated channel/tone? I'm not close enough to any of the remaining hospitals to reliably catch any of the infrequent traffic.