Southern silliness...
Logan County here.. listening to Boone, Logan, sometimes Lincoln. Mostly Police/Fire/EMS.
All VHF, with 1-2 UHF links. No trunking. FD is all Vollie, Sheriff's Dept is what's left from FBI arrests of Sheriff and others [it's getting better], Small town cops with DUI's, DVP's and such, Local EMS is "privately owned" but funded by the county and is an acceptable setup.
All I can say is it's quite entertaining.
Plenty of music, cat-calls, monkey noises, on-air arguments and other hi-tech redneck nonsense. LOL
Ya gots to hear it to believe it. Dispatchers are rather 'laid-back' in their ops and demeanor as well.
Had a possible aircraft down not long ago and WOW... somebody needs to give these guys a comms class. People going in 20 different directions, 3 freqs, NO one in charge.... NO one assigned to any freq, etc... Plenty of 'who is where?' and 'say what' and 'yeah, we know that already' as they all hopped freqs looking for each other for 2 hours...
A blackhawk showed up to help search and-- Get this -- danged if they didn't put him on the EMS repeater output... and then left him there! Dispatch keying over them, them keying over tones, it was a major cluster, no doubt.
But that's par for the course 'round these parts.
In their defense, the police have figured out why they can't catch the Duke boys and now use single-code inversion scrambling and announce when they need to "switch" for passage of sensitive info, but as we all know, $39.95 solves that problem as well.
Good reading the posts! Thanks for the info.