Tecumseh Fire

[ve3hfq]

I saw in the newspaper that Tecumseh Fire is to get a new radio system. Will this change also affect those on the same system in Essex County as well? Does anyone have any further information?

It would appear that Tecumseh, Lakeshore, Essex and a Amherstburg have either gong encrypted or to a new system.

 

[Forts]

There are a whole lot of changes going on down for those departments. I'm sure @Muxlow will chime in as he frequents the area a lot.

 

[ve3hfq]

Further investigation showing they may have gone to the Windsor System which is encrypted. Yet to be confirmed.

 

[Muxlow]

The changes are the that the County Fire Dept's that border the City of Windsor, Tecumseh and Amhurstburg are going onto the Windsor radio system going 800 MHz P25 and it will be encrypted, just like the city fire is.

Leamington is leaving their own VHF DMR system and going UHF Connect Plus with the rest of the county (other than Kingsville, they are staying VHF)

The master plan is to have all of Essex County on Windsor's P25 system. No idea why since the city and county all get dispatched out by Windsor Fire, so just seems like a waste of money to gain....nothing.

 

[Forts]

Some followup reading here:

https://pub-lakeshore.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=12169

 

[K-9UNIT1]

It would appear that Tecumseh, Lakeshore, Essex and a Amherstburg have either gong encrypted or to a new system.

Yes, Amherstburg Fire is going encrypted, possibly in September of this year, maybe.

 

[Muxlow]

Yesterday I heard Amherstburg out on a fire call so they are still on the UHF crap for now.
I was at one of their stations few weeks ago and they have a UHF 4550 in the trucks for the Connect Plus system and a VHF 7550 in the pick up trucks that have like, 4 marine channels and the county VHF paging frequency and the wrong frequency for Kingsville Fire.

Windsor Fire dispatch has been moved from Station 1 HQ into the Police station now, so it's a central dispatch for all Essex County Fire (other than Kingsville, who's dispatched by Lasalle.

As per always, dispatchers and patching groups together never works out. No different here. Windsor claims they can't communicate with say Lakeshore Fire and Leamington because Lakeshore is UHF Connect Plus DMR and Leamington is VHF analog (for now,) yet they share the same dispatch center and the same dispatch console. So, why not just PATCH the damn groups together?

Apparently they were unaware they could do that. No different then how Amherstburg Police is connected to Windsor's system at the moment. APD is VHF P25 and connects to the 800 MHz system.

As for paging, no idea if AFD will keep their paging frequency or just reprogram all the pagers for the county paging frequency and be good to go that way. Or, issue everyone Unication pagers and go THAT route. Amherstburg and Tecumseh will for sure be going over to the city system and will be encrypted with at least ADP since that's what Windsor Fire currently has in place due to they have a handful of XTS and XTL radios in their fleet. So once them are upgraded to APX you'll see APD go bye bye and become AES.

 

[gpp10x]

I've always thought the Essex County Fire Departments should have joined or merged with Windsor Fire. They could have their own talk groups and a common TG with WFD for Mutual Aid situations. Too bad they've all gone, or will go to encryption. WFD was fun to listen to during their VHF days.

 

[K-9UNIT1]

I saw in the newspaper that Tecumseh Fire is to get a new radio system. Will this change also affect those on the same system in Essex County as well? Does anyone have any further information?

It would appear that Tecumseh, Lakeshore, Essex and a Amherstburg have either gong encrypted or to a new system.

Possibly in September of this year for Amherstburg Fire Rescue