SPEN Radio Traffic on the various trunked systems

[RocketNJ]

Morris is very active on SPEN for monitoring and stop and holds, but they obviously still use MIRS religiously for everything over SPEN. I know there is going to a more radio savvy person to correct me, but unfortunately Morris is unable to group and transmit over MIRS/SPEN simultaneously when broadcasting a stop and hold. Morris occasionally uses the hotline, but not really. Only for calls on the border or making notification for an erratic driver.

Morris MIRS talkgroup has very good merits. No BS music, comments, etc. They do not multicast bulletins out over both as the message sometimes will be handled by two different dispatchers. It also keeps out of County comms off MIRS-1 so towns not affected don't have to listen to it.

Yes, there could be a good argument in favor of multicast but Morris has enough staff to handle doing it separately.

The first time someone decided to joke around on MIRS-1, his Chief received a recording along with the time and car number. Word got around. No BS over the air ;-)

 

[BIODTL1997]

If you program your radios to RX on the correct PL, you wont hear 95% of the clowns.

 

[RocketNJ]

Here in NJ most SPEN radios are programmed for the same PL so you still hear the crap.
The trunked interop channel doesn't have the jokers because their ID's show up.

We once had a clown on the trunked interop talkgroup (similar to SPEN but only County-wide). We recorded his antics and sent a wav file of it along with the unit number and date and time to his Chief. Word got around the county quickly after that and no more clowns.

 

[APX8000]

Way back in the day when I worked at a 911 center, we had a department switch from VHF to 800 EDACS. Well, I guess no one told them their identifiers were alpha tagged on a monitor right next to my console. He learned quickly when his MDX mobile started ringing with a private call from me. After that, everyone just screwed around on VHF. LOL

 

[RocketNJ]

Knock it off North Bergen!

 

[APX8000]

I can neither confirm nor deny that i've ever said that 😏

 

[NJEMT12982]

I've got it on good authority from one of my Sergeants that there is a tee shirt from back in the day with a picture of a radio tower and the phrase, "knock it off North Bergen" on it. I would love to walk into HQ one day before roll call wearing that.

 

[01689720a]

Listening on an Icom ID-52, what mode, FM or FM-N? They both sound good to me.

 

[RocketNJ]

SPEN receivers should still be set to FM receive bandwidth as a LOT of agencies are still not using narrow band deviation.

 

[902]

I've got it on good authority from one of my Sergeants that there is a tee shirt from back in the day with a picture of a radio tower and the phrase, "knock it off North Bergen" on it. I would love to walk into HQ one day before roll call wearing that.

PBA Local 18 (North Bergen) was selling these in 2017. I'm not sure if they're still doing it. Here's an old picture of what it looked like. I love that they are good sports about the running gag. You can get them on various social media platforms and ask.

 

[902]

SPEN receivers should still be set to FM receive bandwidth as a LOT of agencies are still not using narrow band deviation.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

[nosoup4u]

I would love to get a decal made of that knock it off North Bergen

 

[trauma74]

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