Madison County and Anderson Indiana ?

[mtzion9953]

Anderson Fire will go live on the new radios this thursday sometime during the day . they were trying to find out how to dispatch each station .

 

[brentoli]

Are they doing the alerting with tones? Or still the old way?

 

[mtzion9953]

Some People Talk About The Low Volume In The Scanners On The New Apd.afd Frequency I Went Out To Radio Shack And Bought A New Pro 82 Scanner And The Volume Had Been Loud And Clear . With My Old Scanner Trunking Scanner It Was Very Weak And Couldn,t Hear Anything . Problum Solved .

 

[khthomas1008]

What type of scanner did you have before the Pro-92?

 

[holeinace]

County or just Anderson?

Is Anderson PD and FD the only departments switching or are all departments in the county going to the "new" system. I live in the SW corner of the county and hear quite a bit of static.

 

[mcema699]

Improve Reception Idea

Anderson police and fire are the only ones switching to the 450 mhz freqs . All others are staying basically where they are at. You may have noticed that PPD and EPD have changed frequencies due to rebanding.

County fire remains on VHF and you should have no problem with them.

If you want to improve Sheriff's dept reception use the south talk group on 800.

 

[mtzion9953]

Someone said are they going to use tones with the new systems or will it be like the ef johnson 800meg systems was . yes there will be tones with the new afd systems .. you might here more then one tone like the old energency tv show . I heard when they dispatch rescue 1 medic 1 and engine 1 you will hear those tones on the radio . but they are still working on it so we will have to see. anderson fire

 

[mtzion9953]

The scanner I had was a pro 91 radio shack scanner 800 meg mhz trunking . the volume was very low with the new system for AFD and APD so I went to the radio shack pro 82 scanner we live on the north side of anderson and we here traffic very well for APD . yes if the person is talking low it will be low but 95 % of the time it clear . good luck

 

[mtzion9953]

Going Live For Afd Will Be Monday Sorry For The Change 100% Now . Febuary 5 2007

 

[dfoutch]

that's ok, we're 'youst' to it

dean

 

[dfoutch]

A little after 9am, Control testing station speakers. Another thing I remember hearing: the audio on the repeaters is recorded, audio on direct chs is not.

dean

 

[mtzion9953]

A.F.D FIRE IS GOING LIVE AT ON THE NEW KENWOOD RADIO TO 16:00 hRS 02-05-2007 THE WAIT IS OVER (POST TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE THINKS .)

 

[AFD710]

Not impressed

I'm sure the signal is stronger with the Kenwood radios, however with my BCD396T I have found the signal to be weak, the audio is low, along with a lot of hissing in the background. I have even changed the factory antenna to a 400 Mhz antenna... still not impressed. I still struggle with the idea of Anderson going back to 400 Mhz. There is no question that the former 800 Mhz needed to go, but to go to the extreme measure of changing systems and still not have SAFE-T available is a waste in my opinion. It is a shame that politics has such a stronghold in our community. APD's cheif pushed for the new 400 Mhz system... I'm sure the fact that he worked for Lectro Communication prior to becoming cheif has nothing to do with it (LOL). Conflict of interest? I think so.

 

[usswood]

There is no question that the former 800 Mhz needed to go, but to go to the extreme measure of changing systems and still not have SAFE-T available is a waste in my opinion. It is a shame that politics has such a stronghold in our community. APD's cheif pushed for the new 400 Mhz system... I'm sure the fact that he worked for Lectro Communication prior to becoming cheif has nothing to do with it (LOL). Conflict of interest? I think so.

I believe Terre Haute and Anderson are sister cities

 

[dfoutch]

"BOLO" or better yet "BOLF" (Be on the listen for) Fire units that go to "Direct 3", note what frequency.

dean

 

[dfoutch]

re: BOLF

Today is a good test for the new system. I just cought them using Direct 3, 458.125 (PD Tac 1). Now we'll see if PD uses Tac 1 or D-3.

dean

 

[AFD710]

Who did you catch using Direct 3? APD or AFD?

 

[dfoutch]

AFD was the ones. I did'nt catch what ones tho. Its one of the mobile simplex channels, hard to hear.

dean

 

[brentoli]

Hows it sounding today with all the crap out there?

 

[AFD710]

Additional AFD Frequencies!

Here is the missing AFD Frequencies:
Direct 3 458.1250
Direct 4 458.3500
The "direct" channels do not go through the repeater.

Med Channel 1 (St. John's) 468.0000
Med Channel 2 (Community) 468.0250

AFD Back-Up 458.2875

Along with what is already posted on RR this is all of AFD's frequencie.