Linn county new system for Fire/EMS
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Thanks for sharing. The past few days I've been hearing some new (to me) TGIDs on SW7 that are apparently interop channels and I heard medic units stating their presence. The TGIDs start with 27XX. One unit accidentally transmitted on 2701 and someone replied stating that they are on interop channel 6. These were on the Benton County site and the medic unit I heard was 1XX, couldn't remember the exact unit.
Oh and another thing. Recently I heard automated tone-outs on Linn County Fire 1 (154.310). By automated I mean the tones sounded different and it had a text-to-speech voice instead of an actual person. Correct me if I'm wrong, don't Fire/EMS dispatching that use a trunked system still use a conventional frequency for tone-outs and they have text-to-speech like that? I might have recordings of the day(s) that the frequency was being used like that and I'll reply with them here if I find them.
Sounds like they were all test calls on September 25th. They were testing it throughout that day and still using the frequency for real calls so these were sprinkled in between those mostly. I put them all together back to back in one audio file in the zip.
dkf435
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Testing today with handhelds 155.850 in North Linn county discussed that the Buck MTN southern site coming up around noon.
That channel should been known as new Fire-1 which is new Dispatch channel. Also, all the current frequencies are changing, but one. I have the new list, i just have to find where i put it and submit it to the database.
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Yeah the LCSO VHF patches have been silent lately with the exception of a few having random testing activity unrelated to actual LCSO Dispatch. Heard a few 5XX units doing testing on 155.790 or 155.850, I can't remember which one. And of course, like stated above, seems like 155.850 will be used with Fire now.
I received this information from a reliable source regarding Linn County's new channel line up.
FIRE 1 155.8500
FIRE 2 159.1425
FIRE 3 156.1875
FIRE 4 154.1300
FIRE TAC 155.5650
FIRE 1 155.8500
FIRE 2 159.1425
FIRE 3 156.1875
FIRE 4 154.1300
FIRE TAC 155.5650
Nevermind I spoke too soon. They were doing a lot of testing on all the channels around 4 - 5 this morning and then actually started using it around 7. Sounds like it's in place now and they're using it for actual calls. Sounds good and I can hear it a lot better than the old system!
Linn and Benton Counties are using the Phoenix G2 System for Dispatching. Web Link
Not at all fire agencies in Linn are using the G2 System. There is at least one agency that has it at some stations but not the others. I can't say for Benton.
Jim
You are correct there are more than 1 agency that has it at their stations. Eventually all voice dispatching will be handled by the system, regardless if they have equipment in their stations. It's a phased project.
Sorry, my thoughts went right to the firehouse station alerting end and not dispatch as it should have. With the new simulcast system up it be interesting to keep up with the changes in Linn Co.
Jim
