SEA ISLE CITY Question

[DougWatkins]

This isn't a very complicated question- given all the new technology...but Cape May County is still in the stone age. Cape May County Fire dispatch is 154.13 PL 118.8...Many of the municipalities still self- dispatch...Does SIC Station 10 still self dispatch? Is their freq still 154.13 with NO PL ( as listed in the database) or do they use the 118.8 that the remainder of the county uses...its cumbersome enough to scan CMC so keeping 154.13 open with no PL leaves open to picking up every agency within range...thanks

 

[RadioChief55]

The stone age is better then the new technology, have you tried to do a PL/DPL search on 154.1300 when they are talking?

 

[wildbillx]

Every fd in Cape May Co. except for Ocean City, Marmora, Seaville, and Tuckahoe us 154.1300 pl 118.8. As for stone age, high power vhf for dispatch is by far more reliable than any system or even use of a repeater. As for their fireground channel it was changed about a year ago to 153.815 118.8.

 

[ansky]

Many of the municipalities still self- dispatch...

How is this unique to Cape May? Most municipalities in NJ have their own dispatchers.

 

[jaymatt1978]

Well in Bergen County "Central Dispatch" dispatches a number of towns too

How is this unique to Cape May? Most municipalities in NJ have their own dispatchers.

 

[RadioChief55]

"Well in Bergen County "Central Dispatch" dispatches a number of towns too[/QUOTE]"

Majority of FD's in Bergen County are dispatched by their local PD. Bergen County is a mess, you can be at a fire with mutual aid, and everyone is on different channels. Who's on UHF, who's on VHF, it's a real mess. I wish they had more regionalized dispatch centers with professional dispatchers.

 

[DougWatkins]

Every fd in Cape May Co. except for Ocean City, Marmora, Seaville, and Tuckahoe us 154.1300 pl 118.8. As for stone age, high power vhf for dispatch is by far more reliable than any system or even use of a repeater. As for their fireground channel it was changed about a year ago to 153.815 118.8.

Thanks for the info

 

[DougWatkins]

Well in Bergen County "Central Dispatch" dispatches a number of towns too

I can't answer for "most"....I was career in a 911 system in Southeastern Pa before retiring to shore (but started my ventures with the old CMCRS in Ocean City decades ago). The majority of the systems in Pa are all centralized and I am more of a fan of this type of operation; for consistency and mutual aid sake more than anything

Cape May Count is attempting to centralize, but still getting push back from the local governments (Avalon, Stone Harbor, Lower and I believe Middle have gone to the county...it's kind of a radio circus when they get working fires in the northern end...you get OC dispatchers (because they dispatch Upper (which includes Starthmere)) talking to units in Upper on Uppers freq's, you get Bellplain dispatchers talking to Dennis units on 154.13....Strathmere has their own disp freq's although use 154.13 for mutual aid and for the past few years OC has been dual dispatched to Strathmere using the new Atlantic County P25 system, etc etc....talk about no cohesion.....and most of us know what happened when Atlantic County tried to consolidate and build a new 911 center...just opinionizing