Rescue Air / Georgia Aeromedical

[Julian1]

I've been searching the FCC d'base with no results.

Formerly Ga Baptist Med Center ems flight.

If you know of any info, please advise.

www.rescue1air.com is their website. I looked over it carefully but found nothing. I even wrote them, but we'll see if they respond.

Thanks,
Julian

 

[firemedic2150]

Rescue Air One

Rescue Air One uses Southern Linc for its primary communications.

Sorry,
Mark Mc.

 

[ReceiverBeaver]

Hi guy,
The medi choppers will have two types of communications going. First is their intra-company comms such as being dispatched from their base or any traffic they may have during a flight where they need to communicate with their home base. This freq. will vary company to company depending on the type of comm system that they choose to use. The poster above has sited one example of a service that uses Southern Link radio-cellphone service for this.

The second type of communications they engage in is contacting local jurisdictions once they are close to arriving on the scene which they have been dispatched to. When going to more rural areas such interagency services contact each other on the Statewide Mutualaid VHF frequencies. Two such freqs. is the so-called HEAR freq. on 155.340 which will usually have a different pl tone by county, and the non-toned Mutual Aid freq of 154.280

Now begs the question....how do these choppers contact a local cop or agency on the scene in a major metropolitan area where the locals are almost always going to be on some sort of 800mhz trunked system which will be different types of systems-talk groups ect...metro county to metro county and city to city? Like...say you have a major air rescue service serving all over metro Atlanta with all of those differing jurisdictions?? I have no idea how on-the-scene comms are handled there.

In my more rural area of north Ga....it'e easier. All the locals are still on VHF and you can hear the choppers making contact with the locals on the VHF freqs listed above.

Good luck

 

[CapStar362]

Now begs the question....how do these choppers contact a local cop or agency on the scene in a major metropolitan area where the locals are almost always going to be on some sort of 800mhz trunked system which will be different types of systems-talk groups ect...metro county to metro county and city to city? Like...say you have a major air rescue service serving all over metro Atlanta with all of those differing jurisdictions?? I have no idea how on-the-scene comms are handled there.

Being i am a LifeLine Pilot, i can answer this for you.

for all the other services, i cannot answer this. but for my job with Atlanta LifeLine Services i can................

our Radio ops man listens to all the Metro ATL Police/EMS/Fire freqs and then can respond to them with my helo ID and position, then he then talks to me on our inter-job freq. and gives me the freq that the requesting service is using. i then dial in and request a ADF Frequency and status of the situation, where im landing, how far from the actual incident scene the landing site is, what the landing site is and person('s) that im expected to come pickup and of course their status for the EMT guys behind me to listen to and prepare their supplies and equipment. once my ADF Needle is sync'ed and homing in on the beacon, i fly to the scene and report in @ 1 mile out.

 

[dhutsell]

All 800Mhz systems have 800mhz non trunked conventional freq's in all the radios and dispatch (sometimes called talk around or mutual aid), all metro atlanta dispatch centers have VHF state band radios, so any chopper with a vhf radio could speak with any metro dispatch center on state band. All metro fire and EMS have VHF HEAR capabilities as well.

 

[b7spectra]

I would say that Metro Atlanta FD's & EMS DON'T have HEAR capability. Most all 800 TRS fire departments only have the one radio in their trucks - Motorola 800 MHz. From what I have seen in the Atlanta Metro EMS trucks is the 800 only as well. Also, in the dispatch centers, 99% of them (on the TRS) have those radio's either turned way down or totally off.