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PA DOH is conducting a radio drill on various TG's currently. The Northcentral region doesn't have the appropriate TG, but DOH Central advised each region to to to the local region TG for the communications drill.
would like to see some video on them talking just to see how the audio is . i am on brodcasifty listening to the them testing and it sound like no one answering i work at a place that has a radio on a pa doh and im not hearing anything on the channel but i hear talking on the brodcasifty web.
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Several hospitals are keying up on TG13081 (DOH ESF8 ST 1), I've gotten a couple hits on TG13107 (Hospitals SW?), as well as TG13156 (EMS SW).
SW is Southwest, ST is Statewide
Update, TG13126 is (DOH Hospitals SC)
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oh not a big fan on the pa star net but its better then opensky .im in pittsburgh
I'm hearing them on 13076 and 13081 on site 113. I am simultaneously monitoring both 113(BRAD31) and 114(BRAD41) with Pro96COM. All the activity seems to be on 113 and nothing on 114.
DOH has a ton of talkgroups (just over 100). If the rest of the state is anything like the SE corner where I have been checking site affiliations, then hospitals are sitting on all different talkgroups. I can only imagine the radios got deployed and there was either inadequate instruction from DOH, the installers said "everything is good to go" without setting radios to the proper channels, or hospital personnel just didn't read their memos with regard to what channel the radio should be sitting on...or some combination of those. The check in nets they have run for the SE District have been on 13081 and 13076...seemed like the intent was to use the "ESF8 Statewide 1" for the SE nets earlier in the year, but the controller went to "DOH Statewide" to try to find hospitals that had not answered. Based on my loggings of some nearby tower sites, there have been local hospitals affiliated to 13081, 13076, 13082, and a couple other talkgroups I don't recall off the top of my head. The bulk of the talkgoups are assigned to the regional EMS councils and the regional healthcare coalition groups.
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Sounds to me like 13107 is HCC Southwest 1 based on what I went back and listened from this morning. Also sounds like alomst nobody was participating or on the right talkgroup...just like what I had hear in the SE earlier in the year. Good ol' charlie foxtrot.
13126 is HCC Northcentral 1
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I think people weren't properly trained on how the DOH TG's were setup, or how to get to different ones. Hopefully that'll be fixed for the next drill.
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Hmm... u mean the same as when the Opensky Radios were installed... Here u go. have a nice day! and no more from any one??
My PEMA Radio was installed quite a while ago --like right at the beginning of COVID shutdowns... no info from PEMA as of today....
Hell they haven't even told us that the Opensky Radios are useless.... Only way we know is all of them once power up never go past the "Please Login" message....
lol training is key but i don't even think if there is a training course you can do like the 800 mhz radio training i had to do years ago. they need to have one for sure. the best was when they did a test the last time and realize most people still had opensky radios and not the new pa star-net radios, another reason why people wasn't hearing others.
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But that training on the 800 radio (aka opensky) way back when was on the use of the radio. And a channel list in the radio.
Nothing in the training introduced to call Western Area office u use this channel. To contact Harrisburg u use this channel. Etc.
Channel list and minor knowledge of the radio functions are not what I classify as proper training.
true. They definitely just drop the radio off and say good luck,.
13089 is HCC Southeast 1 based on my audio recording from earlier today.
What's interesting to me is the hospitals I can see affiliated to the site I am tracking tonight are on five different talkgroups...some different than what they had been sitting on prior to today.
What's interesting to me is the hospitals I can see affiliated to the site I am tracking tonight are on five different talkgroups...some different than what they had been sitting on prior to today.
What is the HCC acronym?
See the link I posted earlier today. Healthcare Coalition. The web link explains it somewhat.
HAHAHA. thats some funny **** right there!! They could care less most of the time. Hell in pittsburgh area its getting to the point that certain ER dont want to answer their command line and you have to call into either Forbes Medcom, UPMC Command or AGH and have them relay which is basically type into a pager that the ER Charge nurse carries.
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Could West Penn Power have a Line channel and a Crew channel for each area? I've been hearing some traffic on 40095 off of ALLE* the last 2 days, and it's just random, nothing seeming to pertain to line operations, a service center, or a DCC/TCC.
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There was a comms exercise yesterday in Pittsburgh. During which, UID:9004005 keyed up on TG:5001.
At the same time, on ICORRS, UID:33129 keyed up on ICORRS EMA 2 with the same "Test 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1"
At the same time, on ICORRS, UID:33129 keyed up on ICORRS EMA 2 with the same "Test 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1"
There are both ISSI gateways from STARNET to ICORRS in development and EPTT to P25 gateways from FirstNet to STARNET in development. I would imagine these comms had something to do with the ISSI.
There are folks on the forums who could expand on the ICORRS ISSI if they want. I don't have any details.