MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
This January, Roswell firefighter was found deceased after working a 24 hour shift, in the fire station.
Firefighter cash also worked for McDonough Fire Department since 2001. The request to create a patch between two geographically disparate systems came in to the Fulton county radio team, to see if we could assist in honoring this hero by ensuring his last call could be heard in real time, over both the NFRRSA radio network, and Henry county radio network, as Firefighter Cash was laid to rest this past Tuesday afternoon.
Seeing the opportunity to not only honor a fallen brother, but to solve a technical challenge, here is how we made this happen. Roswell has an ISSI connection to our radio system core, and thus, countywide coverage is possible allowing us to get native coverage to the border of the Henry county. So, we console patched their fire dispatch to our 911 hailing talkgroup via the ISSI connection. This provided the best possible audio as all is in the digital domain. The challenge was how do we get Henry county onto the field? As they currently do not have an ISSI connection available, we chose to utilize the ICRI 4 port 2 talk path portable tactical gateways which we at Fulton have on our radio team vehicles to create a tactical patch using a Henry county subscriber radio.
On Monday, members from the Fulton radio team, and radio systems manager, traveled to Henry county to do coverage testing and to obtain an XL-200p subscriber to connect to our gateway. Henry County Fire and Emergency Services provided us with a Harris XL-200p configured with Harris BeOn capability. Harris BeOn utilizes LTE to augment LMR coverage and seamlessly switch between LMR and LTE. This made our job of creating a tactical patch easier as we didn't have to "worry" about finding a "sweet spot" where the Fulton radio system and Henry radio system had good coverage.
The patch was then setup in a good area of RF coverage for the Fulton system, and tests were conducted on our 911 Hailing talkgroup and good audio reports obtained from the Roswell 911 center, Fulton 911 center, and Henry county.
Tuesday afternoon, our radio manager setup the patch again and Firefighter Cash last call went out as he was laid to rest. A labor of love paid off, and 911 Director Melissa Alterio's voice was heard loud and clear across three radio systems in two geographically separated counties. It meant everything to the family and those who served with John Kevin Cash that this take place, and we were all honored to assist in making it happen. Lots of little parts and pieces had to connect but they all did, and different vendors' equipment all played nicely together, most importantly the people all came together to honor a fallen hero. RIP Firefighter Cash, we have it from here sir.
Firefighter cash also worked for McDonough Fire Department since 2001. The request to create a patch between two geographically disparate systems came in to the Fulton county radio team, to see if we could assist in honoring this hero by ensuring his last call could be heard in real time, over both the NFRRSA radio network, and Henry county radio network, as Firefighter Cash was laid to rest this past Tuesday afternoon.
Seeing the opportunity to not only honor a fallen brother, but to solve a technical challenge, here is how we made this happen. Roswell has an ISSI connection to our radio system core, and thus, countywide coverage is possible allowing us to get native coverage to the border of the Henry county. So, we console patched their fire dispatch to our 911 hailing talkgroup via the ISSI connection. This provided the best possible audio as all is in the digital domain. The challenge was how do we get Henry county onto the field? As they currently do not have an ISSI connection available, we chose to utilize the ICRI 4 port 2 talk path portable tactical gateways which we at Fulton have on our radio team vehicles to create a tactical patch using a Henry county subscriber radio.
On Monday, members from the Fulton radio team, and radio systems manager, traveled to Henry county to do coverage testing and to obtain an XL-200p subscriber to connect to our gateway. Henry County Fire and Emergency Services provided us with a Harris XL-200p configured with Harris BeOn capability. Harris BeOn utilizes LTE to augment LMR coverage and seamlessly switch between LMR and LTE. This made our job of creating a tactical patch easier as we didn't have to "worry" about finding a "sweet spot" where the Fulton radio system and Henry radio system had good coverage.
The patch was then setup in a good area of RF coverage for the Fulton system, and tests were conducted on our 911 Hailing talkgroup and good audio reports obtained from the Roswell 911 center, Fulton 911 center, and Henry county.
Tuesday afternoon, our radio manager setup the patch again and Firefighter Cash last call went out as he was laid to rest. A labor of love paid off, and 911 Director Melissa Alterio's voice was heard loud and clear across three radio systems in two geographically separated counties. It meant everything to the family and those who served with John Kevin Cash that this take place, and we were all honored to assist in making it happen. Lots of little parts and pieces had to connect but they all did, and different vendors' equipment all played nicely together, most importantly the people all came together to honor a fallen hero. RIP Firefighter Cash, we have it from here sir.
