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Personal Public Safety Radio
Our Rescue Squad, EMS and Fire Dept are all on VHF. We also have a UHF channel that is little used for day to day operations. The area medivac helicopter is on UHF. The county sheriff and police are on UHF. Our squad officers carry an additional UHF radio with the medivac chopper and our UHF channel programmed for transmit. They also have the local regional UHF freq on transmit. However, none of the law enforcement freqs are set for transmit. The only persons with a MOU for the police freqs are the two top emergency management officials in the county. I have been queried by squad members about this and I tell the guys to get me a piece of paper from the police chief or the sheriff and I will do it. I figure since the sheriff doesn't allow his own officers to have personally owned radios on his frequency, he wouldn't care for our guys to have them. If the up and coming EMT is getting a UHF radio, he would put FRS freqs in it to use and just listen on the others.
Bob
Our Rescue Squad, EMS and Fire Dept are all on VHF. We also have a UHF channel that is little used for day to day operations. The area medivac helicopter is on UHF. The county sheriff and police are on UHF. Our squad officers carry an additional UHF radio with the medivac chopper and our UHF channel programmed for transmit. They also have the local regional UHF freq on transmit. However, none of the law enforcement freqs are set for transmit. The only persons with a MOU for the police freqs are the two top emergency management officials in the county. I have been queried by squad members about this and I tell the guys to get me a piece of paper from the police chief or the sheriff and I will do it. I figure since the sheriff doesn't allow his own officers to have personally owned radios on his frequency, he wouldn't care for our guys to have them. If the up and coming EMT is getting a UHF radio, he would put FRS freqs in it to use and just listen on the others.
Bob
