Just another quick note about monroe county fire, the county board of commissioners have agreed to purchase around 350 Motorola Minitor V pagers so they can get rid of the Minitor I and II pagers. Crystals of the 159.090 frequency would've been needed to put in those pagers but were not guaraneteed to work. So it was the decision of the county, with the help of my fire chief who was greatly pushing this issue since our pager failure back in March and we are finally getting somewhere. This way with the Minitor V's they can be computer programmed with the 159.090 frequency and the reception is much clearer since it's already being used across the 4 towers in the county, plus all the pagers will have the "all tone" feature so if we get severe weather, all the pagers in the county will be set off at once by one tone instead of toning out each individual departments which takes about 12 minutes. I am glad that this finally went through. But the biggest problem is that the new frequency can only be used by central dispatch and them only. Since we do a "re-tone" on all calls anyways, we arent allowed to do that because we are not licensed to do so, so we cannot rebroadcast our calls. Plus they cannot set off our tone that sets the fire sirens off in each town! I hope that kink gets worked out real soon to avoid any further problems but I'm glad to see that there is progress. I'll keep everyone updated if anything further comes through!