SLCPD patches each night. Pioneer and Liberty join together in the early morning hours, then split again about noon when call volume dictates each needing it's own channel.
Nothing has to change for the users during the patch, you just hear all traffic from both channels on both channels, when they're split, you only hear Liberty on Liberty and Pioneer on Pioneer.
I have spent the morning with one scanner locked onto SLC PD Pioneer and one scanner locked onto SLC PD Liberty (West & East, Ch 1 & Ch 2). According to
Observer1's post, these channels are patched each morning. If this is a "true" patch at the dispatch panel then it should display some of the phenomena discussed in the original post of this thread. That is not what's happening.
I did not receive any traffic, nothing, zip, squat, Nada, not even a squelch break, on the Pioneer Channel. ALL radio traffic was done on the Liberty Channel for both sides of the city, yet I know for a fact, from sources, that the cars DO NOT change channels, it is all done at the dispatch console.
So why am I not getting any of the results seen in Logan? If Pioneer cars send and receive traffic on their assigned channel on their car radios and handhelds, why am I not hearing their cars, at least, on the Pioneer channel?
I thought I understood what was happening, now I am back to my normal state of confusion,
but at least I am not a stranger to this state.
