Meigs Co 800 mhz conventional license - EMA ?

[mtindor]

WSJU438 Meigs County

ULS Application - PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan,806-817/851-862MHz,Conv - 0011701017 - MEIGS, COUNTY OF

4-site repeater using 855.4625 FB2 / 811.4625 MO
- analog and P25 emissions
- standalone repeaters? Simulcast? Who knows
- Pomeroy, Bashan/Mackenzie, Rutland/Columbia, Albany/Shade
- usage: who knows?

License says "ATTN EMA DIRECTOR" but I don't know that it means it's for EMA use

Mike

 

[dryfb]

All the pub. safety licenses up here in seneca co are (or were) under the EMA directors name, wouldn't be surprised if thats how they did it.

 

[W8UU]

I believe EMA and 911 are under the same office. Meigs EMS is housed next door and is a separate entity.

 

[wa8pyr]

I believe EMA and 911 are under the same office. Meigs EMS is housed next door and is a separate entity.

If they set it up the same way as their UHF Fire/EMS repeater system, it'll be four separate repeaters with the same PL/DPL on the output, but different PL/DPL on each input.

Makes me wonder if they're fixing to move Fire/EMS paging to 800 MHz so the folks at the volunteer departments can use their MARCS radios for paging as well as talking. Same thing Pickaway County did, saved a bunch of money for everybody (no need to buy pagers for a separate band).

 

[W8UU]

If they set it up the same way as their UHF Fire/EMS repeater system, it'll be four separate repeaters with the same PL/DPL on the output, but different PL/DPL on each input. Makes me wonder if they're fixing to move Fire/EMS paging to 800 MHz so the folks at the volunteer departments can use their MARCS radios for paging as well as talking. Same thing Pickaway County did, saved a bunch of money for everybody (no need to buy pagers for a separate band).

I'm almost certain that's the reason.

Look for Athens County EMS and fire departments to do the same thing soon. We were notified that Athens County Emergency Communications (9-1-1) will no longer support any of its analog radio systems, and that - if you want to be dispatched by them - you'll move everything to MARCS. All voice traffic is already there except for some of the volunteer fire departments. The paging operations for EMS and fire are the holdouts for now, but B&C is pushing hard ($$$) for the transition to occur.

 

[wa8pyr]

I'm almost certain that's the reason.

Look for Athens County EMS and fire departments to do the same thing soon. We were notified that Athens County Emergency Communications (9-1-1) will no longer support any of its analog radio systems, and that - if you want to be dispatched by them - you'll move everything to MARCS. All voice traffic is already there except for some of the volunteer fire departments. The paging operations for EMS and fire are the holdouts for now, but B&C is pushing hard ($$$) for the transition to occur.

Hopefully they’ve paid attention to the NFPA, which recommends an alerting system separate from the voice system. That way if one craps out, the other is probably still there.

One of my issues with MARCS in the past is that they suggest that their new customers can dump all their old radio systems, MARCS of course being the be-all, end-all (the customers fall for it in the name of ”savings,“ even though the cost of maintaining an analog repeater is very low). There’s no support given for backup system planning, and when MARCS takes a dump (as it has occasionally done), the customers are left with a disconnected bunch of towers. Pickaway County got around this by programming a zone in the radios where the talkgroups are locked to the Pickaway County tower, so in the event of a system crash, they can at least talk to each other.

 

[W8UU]

We were notified that Athens County Emergency Communications (9-1-1) will no longer support any of its analog radio systems, and that - if you want to be dispatched by them - you'll move everything to MARCS.

I was reminded that Jackson County is doing the same thing. All of the VHF stuff is still licensed and on the air but rotting in place and unused. The lone exception is the 154.115 MHz repeater for Jackson Municipal Services. The UHF (analog and MotoTrbo) is up and running, but is being used less and less as departments hop on the MARCS train. EMS and law enforcement is already 100% on MARCS. They're waiting on a few straggling fire departments, as I understand.