State of Delaware - P25 Phase 1 System (2024)

[trailhiker73]

At this point, Kent County Fire and EMS seems to utilizing the P25 site quite a bit now from dispatch, ops, and hospital channels.

As I monitor the New Castle County site, I’m not hearing much from Fireboard. I occasionally hear traffic on Tac-3, but that’s about it.

I am hearing traffic on the New Castle County site with Animal Control and TMC, so I’m wondering what the status is with Fire and EMS traffic? I thought I read that a full statewide switchover from the legacy to the P25 system was to be in February, so I wonder what the challenges were with that time frame 🤔

 

[magiclightman]

At this point, Kent County Fire and EMS seems to utilizing the P25 site quite a bit now from dispatch, ops, and hospital channels.

As I monitor the New Castle County site, I’m not hearing much from Fireboard. I occasionally hear traffic on Tac-3, but that’s about it.

I am hearing traffic on the New Castle County site with Animal Control and TMC, so I’m wondering what the status is with Fire and EMS traffic? I thought I read that a full statewide switchover from the legacy to the P25 system was to be in February, so I wonder what the challenges were with that time frame 🤔

I believe the Fire/EMS agencies in Kent were directed to start using the new system on their radios. No such directive has been given to the NCC agencies yet, I assume as testing is still underway as evinced by there being activity/no activity on the Fire TGs.

I can also confirm that the out of county/out of state mutual aid companies will be adding the fire/ems TGs to their units now that the SOD system will be P25. There will be no patching of the IOP to a Tac channel just for mutual aid calls as the units will be on TAC3/TAC4 directly.