St. Joseph's ALS - Seven radios?

[mondaro]

Thanks, 902.

Obviously they combine some of those since St. Joe's only mentioned seven radios -- 450-512 can be done in one radio these days, etc.

How many projects still use the UHF Med channels and the PAC-RTs (or the like) for medical control? I don't listen to those channels too often (with the exception of Med 9 & Med 10) but the Atlantic Ambulance MICU use cell phones and I hear REMCS patching channel five to the doctor.

From the few times I've drive Atlantic or MONOC trucks they only have 2-3 mobile radios so seven radios definitely stuck out when I read the report.

Apu

I think the Monoc trucks have only two radios in northern NJ

 

[gcr33]

Another reason for the small town we have to have our own mentallity to stop. It works outside of the land of the fiefdoms aka NJ.

 

[902]

Another reason for the small town we have to have our own mentallity to stop. It works outside of the land of the fiefdoms aka NJ.

It's not just NJ. Politicians, corporations and special interests pretty much try to pull the same things everywhere. In NJ it's closer to the surface. In other places things are much deeper, but the same things happen.

 

[gcr33]

Right, it has nothing to do with quality of service, it's only corporations. Another poor and not real excuse. In NJ where you constantly hear that there are no "rigs" available because they don't want to pay for services that others around the country consider a minimum standard.

It's all about being stupid. Too cheap, too provincial, too much head up one's butt.

 

[902]

In NJ where you constantly hear that there are no "rigs" available because they don't want to pay for services that others around the country consider a minimum standard.

Bear with me while I provide a snapshot. The state that I am in right now is fairly prosperous, but considers its fiscal austerity to be the voters' mandate. Our roads are built to a 1947 standard with 10 ft. lanes, gouged drainage ditches instead of shoulders, lots of hills and blind curves. Due to this pride-in-austerity policy, enforcement is sparse and troopers (who patrol state highways and state maintained roadways) must often come from other counties - i.e., similar to the trooper responding to something on Kinderkamack Rd. in Bergen County is coming from McCarter Highway in Newark. Many people running through here consider speed limits to be optional and, if someone is not going fast enough, another will go into an on-coming lane because there is nowhere to pass, contributing to high-speed head-on or rapid ditch (I've come upon vehicles launched into trees or rolled down steep hills due to no guard rails) accidents which are mostly fatal. While the population and traffic density is nowhere near Northern NJ, there is rapid sprawl and services take decades to react to population distribution.

From that picture I've painted, our closest paid, ALS ambulance (there are NO BLS ambulances in this particular area) comes from (get this) 16 miles away. I've timed the response to this area on 8 separate occasions over five years and the closest ambulance (if it is available) takes 38 minutes to pass my house. If it is not available, the next unit comes from 25 miles away. The only saving grace is that the fire district's usual response time to this area is about 8 minutes.

We're not saving for a wide screen TV, we're saving for an AED for ourselves for the house. Nothing can really help us on the street, except maybe a vehicle with a lot of metal. Now that we can "retire" (read: vested, but not old enough to collect anything), well-funded and well-operating public safety services are an important part of where we go next. My personal belief is that these matters are not where to apply libertariansim.

New Jersey may be "bad," and they may not be high and tight like some parts of Florida, but they are light-years ahead of some places.

 

[SCPD]

I agree with what 902 said. EMS is paid very low, whether you work for a private co. or a town. But regarding the radio's 6 or 7 is too much.

In Morris County they recently put into service a 400MHz Trunked Radio System. Every town has a radio at their respective police desks.

If they don't already, I would be in support of installing a radio (XTL 2500) in each MICU that serves Morris County. However, the problem it has not been explained to the users of this system what the protocol is for a Mutual Aid call, to my knowledege.

The radio's at the Police Desk's have one or only two talkgroups, and they do not have the capability to change to an EMS talkgroup to talk to the responding rig coming to their town.

We're still left with using the frequency the town uses for EMS. I would presume the same goes for Fire too.

 

[SCPD]

I think the Monoc trucks have only two radios in northern NJ

I think the CDM and HT series are 450-527.

 

[apu]

I think the CDM and HT series are 450-527.

450-512 MHz