Litchfield County Dispatch - Dispatch Channel

[Adamwalsh627]

I have a few things that I would like to ask and get feedback on.

In my opinion, the weekly 1900 roll call on Thursday seems useless.
1) Just because the pagers work on Thursday Night, they can fail anytime of the week
2) If there is no response from the agency, the dispatcher keeps on going down the list. No one confirms
the tones work….
3) The specialty tones (Countywide Tone, Barkhamsted, Medic Tones) don’t get tested. They are just
as Important.
4) The Knox Box tones never get tested (hope they work in an emergency gaining entry)
5) The siren tones don’t get tested
Anyone kind of see my point? It’s a ritual, but it’s useless. What do you think?

Why is the Canton Medic being dispatched it seems for all medic dispatches in Barkhamsted instead of Northwest Medic 3?

How can personnel both monitor Dispatch and Response at the same time? No matter which channel you put on priority, you miss the other one. If Response is on priority, you miss a dispatch coming in and if you put Dispatch on priority, you are missing transmissions on Response.

What about the noon sirens not getting sent out on Sundays? It’s a useless tradition.

 

[smartconnect]

I have a few things that I would like to ask and get feedback on.

In my opinion, the weekly 1900 roll call on Thursday seems useless.
1) Just because the pagers work on Thursday Night, they can fail anytime of the week
2) If there is no response from the agency, the dispatcher keeps on going down the list. No one confirms
the tones work….
3) The specialty tones (Countywide Tone, Barkhamsted, Medic Tones) don’t get tested. They are just
as Important.
4) The Knox Box tones never get tested (hope they work in an emergency gaining entry)
5) The siren tones don’t get tested
Anyone kind of see my point? It’s a ritual, but it’s useless. What do you think?

Why is the Canton Medic being dispatched it seems for all medic dispatches in Barkhamsted instead of Northwest Medic 3?

How can personnel both monitor Dispatch and Response at the same time? No matter which channel you put on priority, you miss the other one. If Response is on priority, you miss a dispatch coming in and if you put Dispatch on priority, you are missing transmissions on Response.

What about the noon sirens not getting sent out on Sundays? It’s a useless tradition.

its all you

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[PurityControl2]

I would argue this post is more useless than all the points you've made.

 

[W1KNE]

Another stellar take from "Adamwalsh627".

 

[W1KNE]

its all you

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I'd hate to see him as a dispatcher.
"Why are you responding?"
"What do you mean? Who's 'Roger', and why do you keep calling me that?"
"I'm just going to wait on this until Salisbury answers!"

 

[MarkB513]

Oh wow. Both the questions and the responses

 

[nhfdcadet]

1. God forbid a dispatch center test their systems and backups once in a while, right? There's other places that do it daily, some even twice. Luckily we don't have that.
There have been multiple times where problems with the system have gone unnoticed until the Thursday night rollcall. We even have the benefit now of testing both dispatch and response at the same time.
2. False.
3. Its a test of the system, not the pagers.
4. Its a test of the system, not the Knox boxes.
5. Its a test of the system, not the sirens.

Canton medic is not being dispatched to all medic dispatches in Barkhamsted, even as recently as yesterday.

People don't need to monitor both channels at the same time. If you're responding, you've already been dispatched. If they're that worried about it, they can carry a pager.

Sunday is a day of rest, even for sirens.

 

[W1KNE]

Oh wow. Both the questions and the responses

The responses are justified in this case. Especially when you look at the OPs history here...