radio checks and role call

[Whospoonbill]

Why they doing radio checks and role call on TCSO i wondering if there getting ready for encryption there asking for there car number and radio id and in car radio id to

 

[rlopez28]

Typically happens when MDCs or dispatch is down. The dispatcher needs the employee ID to get them logged into dispatch manually. When things are back up they usually ask dispatch to log them out so they can log back in themselves. Quite common.

 

[Whospoonbill]

Typically happens when MDCs or dispatch is down. The dispatcher needs the employee ID to get them logged into dispatch manually. When things are back up they usually ask dispatch to log them out so they can log back in themselves. Quite common.

Manor police for example doesn’t go by there radio id number or car or anything they use there employee id that’s there badge number and i think Travis county does to. That’s why I’m curious why they verifying for officer and deputy to talk and ask can you go with the car radio to and your handheld and than they said that’s a match they never once ask for a employee id also you can go back and listen to all of it. It started around 1-3 pm yesterday if you payed for broadcastify premium the other only thing I can think of if they may have a Motorola apx or xts that they don’t know inhibiting so they want to verify everybody radio id and shutdown the ones they cant verify and have them contact the radio shop for the ones that can’t be verify but wouldn’t the person that runs gatrrs be the ones that shutdown the radios not the dispatchers

 

[NC5267]

Manor police for example doesn’t go by there radio id number or car or anything they use there employee id that’s there badge number and i think Travis county does to. That’s why I’m curious why they verifying for officer and deputy to talk and ask can you go with the car radio to and your handheld and than they said that’s a match they never once ask for a employee id also you can go back and listen to all of it. It started around 1-3 pm yesterday if you payed for broadcastify premium the other only thing I can think of if they may have a Motorola apx or xts that they don’t know inhibiting so they want to verify everybody radio id and shutdown the ones they cant verify and have them contact the radio shop for the ones that can’t be verify but wouldn’t the person that runs gatrrs be the ones that shutdown the radios not the dispatchers

The dispatchers can brick a radio. Here in San Antonio/Bexar County, I have seen them pull up a program, enter the radio ID and other admin info, and inhibit the radio that was lost or stolen. Also, when a unit keys up, it displays the agency, officer/deputy name, badge number, and radio ID, and the employee number if the unit is with the agency. Outside units like DPS, other agencies show up with the same information except employee ID.

The check-ins could be that they received updated radios and are ensuring the IDs match what they already have in the system. Travis County SO uses APX radios I assume, since most agencies run phase 2 capable radios nowadays. They could have had some countywide updates to their programming, and sometimes that screws up a radio's settings and makes the whole thing a mess.

 

[Whospoonbill]

They just said this they starting doing it almost a week ago https://calls.broadcastify.com/yglv354a/5459/1771708510-2403.mp3 but i guess they just ended it

 

[Whospoonbill]

Never mind they started it back up just now https://calls.broadcastify.com/sga7303i/4846/1771733559-2403.m4a

 

[Whospoonbill]

They did it for several days this week on the scanner it shows the uid and tcso isn’t encrypted so I don’t get why they half to keep asking if they have a scanner it’ll show the uid there asking for vehicle and side unit id not employee id

 

[Whospoonbill]

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