And Norfolk County has every Norfolk Cnty town on the system, even if they belong to another District.
What happened to the days of You belong to One Dist, and monitor that radio and have the Mutual Aid Dispatch agency join the other network as needed.
ie; Beverly Control has Metro Fire for Interop
Randolph [Southeastern Control] had Metro Fire
Too many channels, too much confussion.
Keep It Simple for the Stupid. KISS is the method.
an Example of Confussion was last month or the month prior...
Milton has a 2nd Alarm. Instead of notifying Metro Fire, they hopped on Norfolk County first. Bad Move. Let Norfolk monitor Metro Fire and coordinate thru your primary Mutual Aid Network.
JMHO as a former Police Dispatcher..
Interop begins at the Dispatch Center
Another example of out of district departments that have radios with out of district channels programmed, Hingham has Braintree and Quincy and others in their radios, for fire departments. Rockland PD has their radios loaded with just about every UHF department east of Worcester.