Thank youThey are.
Actually I believe dispatching for 3200 and 2900 comes out of Rochester now ( Dashboard - Dispatch ). I'm going to guess everyone sharing a dispatcher is likely patched together to keep calls from piling up on the dispatcher.It is interesting how history repeats itself. When I came to work for the Department of Highways in 1968, 3200 (TRF) dispatched for 2900 (Detroit Lakes) and the western part of 2600 (Saint Cloud). The central part of 2600 was from 2300 (Marshall) and the eastern part of 2600 from Saint Paul (2400 & 2500). Virginia (3100) and Brainerd (2800) split Duluth (2700). Rochester (2100) and Marshall split the Mankato (2200) district all 24-7. It was a cost saving split defined by where the radio system had coverage. There were places where it required 4 hops of 72/75 MHz and VHF/UHF links for the dispatch center to reach an outlying base station.
In rural MN there were many winter weekday nights when the only person on duty was the dispatcher in a district. They were needed to answer Zenith 7000 the predecessor to 911, the teletype and respond to mutual aid from the sheriff's and the adjacent states.
Today I believe all dispatching comes from Waters Edge in Roseville. They like are other states are dynamically assigning dispatching to where the work load is needed. It's nice to have a radio system that allows those options and flexibility.
I agree with ya. Though I think (speculation on my part) that with ARMER any of the larger counties up north could in theory handle dispatching sate patrol in the event that there was a need. As I understand it, no 911 calls go through state patrol anyway as they are all relayed from each psap to state patrol dispatch or on the district all call channel.Actually I believe dispatching for 3200 and 2900 comes out of Rochester now ( Dashboard - Dispatch ). I'm going to guess everyone sharing a dispatcher is likely patched together to keep calls from piling up on the dispatcher.
Growing up in Fargo in the 1980s, I remember tuning in all those 72 MHz and 450 MHz links from remote sites so I could hear the mobiles (they only turned on the repeaters when units far away from each other needed to talk to each other).
I'm really surprised they've concentrated everything in the SE part of the state. Would have made more sense for the "up north" area to be dispatched out of like Bemidji, so a major "event" going through the middle of the state (possibly tying up or downing fiber and microwave links) doesn't leave "up north" islanded.
Technically true but politically very false. I don't know of any state policing agency that routinely accepts formal dispatching from a county. For state patrols, there may be a informal mutual aid request through cross monitoring of state/county networks. For state investigative functions like the BCA, there may be communications regarding a specific investigation but that's all. In many western states, the state center(s) dispatch counties like in North Dakota.with ARMER any of the larger counties up north could in theory handle dispatching sate patrol in the event that there was a need
Generally at least one major county is equipped to back up some of the federal warning functions of the state radio. They usually don't have the reach and capacity of the state's center but can start the communications to be dispersed.I want to say years ago there was an agreement in ND where Red River Regional Dispatch (Fargo-Moorhead) can take over ND State Radio if the Bismarck bunker were to become incapacitated....But Fargo and Cass County, ND are not participating in SIRN 2020 (ND's statewide trunking system), but rather are participating in ARMER,
