STLFD

[W0TLP]

I would stick with site 201. It is the main site for the city. Site 205 seems to be limited in its use and many of us really haven't figured it out. Not sure why you have trouble with site 201. Where are you in relation to the city?

I'm in Sappington. I resolved the issue by reverting to a previous programming schema.

From what I can tell, Sit 205 only has dispatch, so perhaps that site is simulcasting into MOSWIN so that other agencies can hear the dispatches without having to program site 201 into radios??

 

[bdzig]

The city fire talkgroups will only be heard on sites 201, 202, 203, and 205. Sites 201 and 205 are the primary sites that you will hear them, with 202 and 203 being alternate sites if the first two cannot be reached by the radio. You may very occasionally hear them on the METRO towers as well, but again their primary sites are 201 & 205. Their radios are single band, so they will not affiliate with the MOSWIN VHF towers.

 

[KeyWest35]

I am using a Uniden 996P@ scanner and the last few days have been listening to St Louis Fire or I was as it is not coming in at all now. I don't know if people that live closer or having any kind of trouble or not. I live in Fenton It always has been coming in good where I have my scanner.

 

[BIRRM1]

I am using a Uniden 996P@ scanner and the last few days have been listening to St Louis Fire or I was as it is not coming in at all now. I don't know if people that live closer or having any kind of trouble or not. I live in Fenton It always has been coming in good where I have my scanner.

I’m in Kirkwood. No problems here.

 

[llzel]

I was on 44 in Eureka and was receiving STLFD EMS on 201 with a unication

 

[llzel]

last night St Louis City FD went to DVRS B curious, about that. The database says 700MhZ. Can I program these frequencies in my unication? Command B went silent after that

 

[ryolsen8]

last night St Louis City FD went to DVRS B curious, about that. The database says 700MhZ. Can I program these frequencies in my unication? Command B went silent after that

Yes, put them in as conventional, and make sure you include the NAC when programming.

 

[scanman1958]

I heard that too. I had not yet programmed those conventional P-25 channels so I missed the direct comms for that one call. I finally did that later. To note here, later in the evening they used the DVRS channel(s) again on an elevator rescue.

 

[llzel]

well I can confirm I programmed the DVRS frequencies into my unication correctly. 4 alarm fire yesterday and they used it and I was close enough to be able to hear. You have to be pretty close, I was probably 2.97 miles as the crow flies and I was getting 0-2 bars

 

[BIRRM1]

The “Testing” talkgroup is active again and this time for EMS. I’m very disappointed as the gals on EMS are such a pleasure to listen to. Also hearing how much goes on with call switching between units, disregards, and lack of units ever in quarters, how an automated system really benefits anyone.

 

[scanman1958]

You are correct. You may hear the EMS dispatcher redispatch a specific call multiple times. Usually the other crews will have heard the call go out and speak up that they may be closer. And by already knowing the location of the call, the information doesn't have to be redispatched in its entirety. I would hate to hear a computer voice dispatch a call over and over again. That could be reason for me to hit the temporary avoid button a lot for that talkgroup.

In my opinion, StL fire has a long way to go to match Central County in how smooth the computer dispatching sounds.

 

[BIRRM1]

You are correct. You may hear the EMS dispatcher redispatch a specific call multiple times. Usually the other crews will have heard the call go out and speak up that they may be closer. And by already knowing the location of the call, the information doesn't have to be redispatched in its entirety. I would hate to hear a computer voice dispatch a call over and over again. That could be reason for me to hit the temporary avoid button a lot for that talkgroup.

In my opinion, StL fire has a long way to go to match Central County in how smooth the computer dispatching sounds.

And having first hand knowledge of how the system works, the system is going to re-dispatch the call. Unless they are working to not have it do that. I don’t know how they would since if it doesn’t dispatch the new unit the system is pointless.

Not to mention the high volume of radio traffic, how are the medic units listening to the Dispatch channel and switching to Main.

I’m not a fan of this type of fire station alerting anyway. I think some things should be left to humans to do. Regardless of my useless opinion, I also don’t think it is best suited for the city.

 

[llzel]

STLFD District 6 has been auto dispatching EMS calls but as others have said, not sure how it will work. The city EMS is a ____show and I love listening to it. The personalities are hilarious. Fire dispatch seems to be OK, although I do miss the human touch.

 

[llzel]

You are correct. You may hear the EMS dispatcher redispatch a specific call multiple times. Usually the other crews will have heard the call go out and speak up that they may be closer. And by already knowing the location of the call, the information doesn't have to be redispatched in its entirety. I would hate to hear a computer voice dispatch a call over and over again. That could be reason for me to hit the temporary avoid button a lot for that talkgroup.

In my opinion, StL fire has a long way to go to match Central County in how smooth the computer dispatching sounds.

I'm not a fan of Central County because it's all automated, replies, triage, transport...all automated.