Hmmm! I am monitoring a smartzone system. The system I am monitoring is set up with different sites in the different sections of the county (Okay, for clarification, i am monitoring Burlington County, NJ).
Well, here is the thing. I have the West site programmed into my scanner. Yet I am picking up ambulances and police from the northeastern sector of the county (From Northeast Response 1 TGID if your familiar with it). I also get North Response, Northcentral response, and Northwest response. This seems to happen often. Now, I could almost understand getting Northwest on the west system, because they're pretty close to each other, so if a NW ambulance is en route to the hospital which is covered in the West zone, then the west tower should pick it up. But Northeast, North Central and North are all pretty far from the west zone. So its weird. *Duh!*
I did a cool little experiment. I programmed the Northcentral system into my scanner, and noticed that I was picking up the West police, and West Response (Ambulance/Fire). But in the middle of the transmission, if I quickly hopped over to the west site, I would not receive transmissions from those units.
I just think its kind of screwy. I mean, how do the Emergency workers do it? Do they have to program every freq into their radio? Better yet, here is the question that has been burning a hole in my head. When a fire engine from west response or maybe even dispatch makes a transmission, and it ends up on north central response, does the same transmission get simulcasted on any of the other sites?
Well, here is the thing. I have the West site programmed into my scanner. Yet I am picking up ambulances and police from the northeastern sector of the county (From Northeast Response 1 TGID if your familiar with it). I also get North Response, Northcentral response, and Northwest response. This seems to happen often. Now, I could almost understand getting Northwest on the west system, because they're pretty close to each other, so if a NW ambulance is en route to the hospital which is covered in the West zone, then the west tower should pick it up. But Northeast, North Central and North are all pretty far from the west zone. So its weird. *Duh!*
I did a cool little experiment. I programmed the Northcentral system into my scanner, and noticed that I was picking up the West police, and West Response (Ambulance/Fire). But in the middle of the transmission, if I quickly hopped over to the west site, I would not receive transmissions from those units.
I just think its kind of screwy. I mean, how do the Emergency workers do it? Do they have to program every freq into their radio? Better yet, here is the question that has been burning a hole in my head. When a fire engine from west response or maybe even dispatch makes a transmission, and it ends up on north central response, does the same transmission get simulcasted on any of the other sites?
