Montclair - Mountainside Hospital Freqs?

[BIODTL1997]

I've taken a stab at this a bunch of times, tearing through licence records, using close-call, this that and the other, to no avail.

Does anyone have info on their radio system? Security, pagers, etc? I'm running a charity supported by over a hundred residents of Montclair for the front-liners and I cant forget about the hospital staff and I'd like to get a gauge of how busy they are. (aside from just killing my brain trying to get these for several years)

We've already distributed 19 Pizzas and 7 Doz bagels to every PD, FD, EMS, Dispatch and DPW buildings. I think the local medical staff deserve a good deed as well.

Thanks!

 

[markjrenna]

Excellent what you and the residents are doing!
I don't know Mountainside Hospitals freqs. But what I do know, is they are very busy, as are most if not all hospitals in the entire northern NJ area.

 

[tvengr]

Does anyone have info on their radio system?

Found 2 licenses:
KGN532 - 155.34 - FB and MO - NFM - (Simplex) - plus UHF Med 1-Med 8
WQTP982 - 452.4 - FB2 - NFM and 457.4 - MO - NFM - (Repeater)

 

[BIODTL1997]

Thanks! I’ll punch these in tomorrow.

Curious as to what your search query was...

 

[tvengr]

Montclair on fcc.gov. You can narrow it to Montclair Hospital and that will return only 4 licenses. One is terminated and another is in California.

 

[markjrenna]

Thanks. Now I see how to find them myself too

https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/General_Menu_Reports/license_search.cfm?service_select=%25&accessible=NO&soundex_select=montclair&wild_select=on&state_select=NJ&zip_select=&frn_select=&begin_grant_date=&end_grant_date=&begin_expiration_date=&end_expiration_date=&limit_select=4&sortstring=%2C+lic_name%2C+file_num

 

[BIODTL1997]

Thank you, I've been doing this for a long time and am well aware of the FCC database resources.

 

[BIODTL1997]

I've spend HOURS here over the past 2-5 years.

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[BIODTL1997]

Guys, I've exhausted all efforts. I appreciate the help but I know what I'm doing. Ad yes, my computer is turned on.

 

[robbinsj2]

Please excuse another suggestion which you may have already tried -- a point/ radius geosearch instead of licensee name, licensee town, etc. Include mobile areas of coverage in the search results, it'll give a lot of irrelevant hits but may be key for a reason discussed below.

From studying a hospital in my area (not at all related to Mountainside), most of their comms are over a local-area digital system more like the old Nextel. Each user could be dialed individually/ directly like a phone, or called in groups like a radio. I believe the same system also handled some of their telemetry. This whole system seemed to be licensed by the system manufacturer so a name search for the hospital wouldn't yield anything useful. And I vaguely recall that all units were licensed as mobiles so the transmitter town name may not be on the license, but they did have an accurate centerpoint and a radius for the mobiles.

The hospital I'm thinking of only seemed to use conventional channels for stuff that needed some coverage outside of the building, like security (though I always suspected security was also on the in-house system too) and HEAR.

 

[W2IRT]

You might also want to try HUMC or Hackensack Meridian Health, the parent company that now owns Mountainside. Maybe their licenses are held under those names at other locations.