Military funeral/procession today.

[west-pac]

There will be a military funeral procession today, leaving Grissom ARB heading to Logansport. The procession starts around 10:45am. Radio traffic will be on SAFE-T SWMA-6.

 

[AK9R]

Thanks for posting this.

Regarding your question in another thread about affiliating with the Miami Correctional site, do you think there was enough traffic on SW-MA6 to justify that? Were the sites in Peru, Kokomo, and Logansport able to handle today's traffic?

Also, do you think they will pick an SW-MA channel for the funeral procession on Tuesday?

 

[west-pac]

Thanks for posting this.

Regarding your question in another thread about affiliating with the Miami Correctional site, do you think there was enough traffic on SW-MA6 to justify that? Were the sites in Peru, Kokomo, and Logansport able to handle today's traffic?

Also, do you think they will pick an SW-MA channel for the funeral procession on Tuesday?

1) Idk, I wasn't listening to a site broadcasting SWMA6, although, everyone at Grissom ARB on SWMA6 was ~1 mile from the Miami Correctional SAFE-T site, versus 9 miles to the Peru site, 13 miles to the Kokomo site, and 15 miles to the Logansport site.

2) Most likely, but it's not about the individual sites capacity; it's about sufficient radio coverage, as in RSSI, at and around GARB.

3) Most likely. GARB and Logansport are both within the Region 'E' Mutual Aid TG area, so they could've used an E-MA TG, but for some reason they chose not to. I speculate that it could have been because the military personnel involved didn't have the Regional MA TGs in their radios, or it could've been because others, outside of Region E, wanted to listen in. Purely from a SAFE-T system resource management standpoint, the traffic should've been on an E-MA TG, since all locations were within Region E, but again, I speculate, there may have been some circumstance that made them kick it up to a SW TG.

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On a typical day there probably isn't much SAFE-T SW-MA traffic, or SAFE-T military traffic, at or near site 1.92, so it would've been interesting to see if SW-MA or military TGs are allowed on 1.92; or maybe that other "circumstance" was that SW-MA6 -is/was- allowed (fulltime, or temporary) on site 1.92, so they chose that TG.

If no one was listening to 1.92 during that time we may never know.

 

[AK9R]

I suspect that with so many law enforcement folks from all over the state coming in to support this procession, a decision was made to use an SW-MA talkgroup instead of an E-MA one just to make sure everybody could be on the same TG. It seems logical that every radio should be programmed with every MA talkgroup, but the users may not know where to find them.

On a mil-air monitoring topic, were you aware of the A-10 flyover during the procession? I've seen various photos some of which appear to have been shot as the procession was on US 35 north of Walton and others that appear to be over Logansport.

 

[west-pac]

On a mil-air monitoring topic, were you aware of the A-10 flyover during the procession? I've seen various photos some of which appear to have been shot as the procession was on US 35 north of Walton and others that appear to be over Logansport.

I was not. I really wasn't paying attention to monitoring during that time. I do, however, listen to the air-to-air freq for A-10s out of Fort Wayne occasionally.