Trouble brewing for CMED.
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leadjammer
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Trouble Brewing for C-Med
Does Northwest Public Safety have a dispatch channel for Meriden-Wallingford units. I haven't heard anything here in Hamden.
Monitored Med 10 most of the day and heard very little. Units don't seem to be signing on anymore. Heard West Haven Fire on the Interops channel talking with a Charlie unit. . Seems like car to car stuff is on that channel. Kind of confusing. Noticed West Haven Fire was not called Echo anymore. I guess the Alpha. Delta stuff is gone too. Yet AMR cars are still called Charlie Units. Very poor communication If you ask me.
Maybe things will get better in time. Was the old system really that bad? At least we listeners knew where the units were being dispatched anyway. Now there is more silence than anything else. What is AMR Dispatching? I haven't heard anything.
I did hear a few patches on the old Med 7 and 8.
The old Cmed was one of my favorite channels to listen to. Always busy and lots to hear. This new stuff is a big change. Like I said more silence than anything else.
Does Northwest Public Safety have a dispatch channel for Meriden-Wallingford units. I haven't heard anything here in Hamden.
Monitored Med 10 most of the day and heard very little. Units don't seem to be signing on anymore. Heard West Haven Fire on the Interops channel talking with a Charlie unit. . Seems like car to car stuff is on that channel. Kind of confusing. Noticed West Haven Fire was not called Echo anymore. I guess the Alpha. Delta stuff is gone too. Yet AMR cars are still called Charlie Units. Very poor communication If you ask me.
Maybe things will get better in time. Was the old system really that bad? At least we listeners knew where the units were being dispatched anyway. Now there is more silence than anything else. What is AMR Dispatching? I haven't heard anything.
I did hear a few patches on the old Med 7 and 8.
The old Cmed was one of my favorite channels to listen to. Always busy and lots to hear. This new stuff is a big change. Like I said more silence than anything else.
When you have one coordinating agency, it is far easier to have consistent communications. Now you see the results of having that control removed. I would imagine there will be a lot of growing pains if there is no official word going out on the plan for replacing the closed CMED. Imagine that having three agencies instead of the one means some relearning for the crews.
chris
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joetnymedic
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So what are we hearing over the med channels right now because we are hearing patches on med 7 as well as dispatch via med 10.
You are still going to hear dispatch on Med 10. The units calling dispatch have already been dispatched, on scene and transporting to a hospital in that region. The units your hearing are looking for a patch to destination hospital.
Prior you heard units sign in on, arriving, transporting to hospital and arrival at hospital.
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Prior you heard units sign in on, arriving, transporting to hospital and arrival at hospital.
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KB1JHU
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What I find interesting is that it seems that many of the AMR units don't have the splinter med channels, like Southwest 52 programmed or the crews don't know how to access them in the radios. If they don't have the channels programmed, their ambulances should not have been certified by OEMS to be on the road. If the crews don't know how to access the channel, then that's a major failure on managements part. Then again, AMR doesn't care if it doesn't make them money.
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You are correct. I have been in a few and they do not have the splinter channels. SWCMED has patched us into Milford using Med 8 a couple of the times. A couple times I used the phone line.
My boss has us notify him of when they don't have the correct channel so he can file a report with the state every time.
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You are correct. I have been in a few and they do not have the splinter channels. SWCMED has patched us into Milford using Med 8 a couple of the times. A couple times I used the phone line.
My boss has us notify him of when they don't have the correct channel so he can file a report with the state every time.
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joetnymedic
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But is that AMR or who they are calling themselves MedCom?
It's any unit calling into the old "SC CMED" which is now called MEDCOM. MEDCOM is being operated by AMR now.
With some minor changes, replace SC CMED with MEDCOM.
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Your Med-11 & Med 13 are 6.25 spit I don't think you will se those any time soon
Below are the med channels.
MED-1 463 468
MED-12 463.0125 468.0125
MED-2 463.025 468.025
MED-22 463.0375 468.0375
MED-3 463.05 468.05
MED-32 463.0625 468.0625
MED-4 463.075 468.075
MED-42 463.0875 468.0875
MED-5 463.1 468.1
MED-52 463.1125 468.1125
MED-6 463.125 468.125
MED-62 463.1375 468.1375
MED-7 463.15 468.15
MED-72 463.1625 468.1625
MED-8 463.175 468.175
MED-82 463.1875 468.1875
MED-9 462.95 467.95
MED-92 462.9625 467.9625
MED-10 462.975 467.975
MED-102 462.9875 467.9875
Below are the MED-TAC channels
MED-TAC 11 453.025 458.025
MED-TAC 12 453.075 458.075
MED-TAC 13 453.125 458.125
MED-TAC 14 453.175 458.175
They even reference the OEMS Communications Policy and still call the channels by the wrong name. Not surprising but still a shame.
http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/ems/pdf/2015_6_29_medcom_operational_procedures_2015_rev_6292015.pdf
chris
http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/ems/pdf/2015_6_29_medcom_operational_procedures_2015_rev_6292015.pdf
chris
MarkB513
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NW Med-102 from Meriden comes in extremly clear in Cheshire, unlike Med-9 from Waterbury. I also like the fact that NW has all their coordination channels tied togther. I was taken by surprise at first when I heard Meriden/Wallingford units requesting patches for Mid-state over Med-10 while I was in Danbury.
leadjammer
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Trouble Brewing for CMED
I still can't figure why they stopped the units from signing on. How can they co-ordinate anything if they don't know where the units are. Seems crazy to me but I do miss the busy activity on MED 10. Now it is dead silence most of the time.
I still can't figure why they stopped the units from signing on. How can they co-ordinate anything if they don't know where the units are. Seems crazy to me but I do miss the busy activity on MED 10. Now it is dead silence most of the time.
That is what the powers that be wanted for the New Haven area. they now have a separate frequency set for unit-to-unit communications. The way C-MED operated is long gone.
kmacinct
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And the efforts to have similar systems and procedures in this little State... . .
N1SQB
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Can you elaborate on this Izzy? Is is something we already have or you talking about Med-10 462.975?
Manny
N1SQB
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OK! Thanks! Do we know if it's actively being used for that right now? Is this mobile to mobile simplex or repeated? I've had all the channels in a group together and haven't heard anything!
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Northwest Public Safety has added a few med channels and one hospital tie-in during the past month. Med 102 is the sign on channel for Meriden and Wallingford EMS units (Papa and Whiskey units, under the old New Haven designators.) Northwest also patches those Meriden area units to Mid-State Hospital on Med 82, a narrow band splinter of Med 8.
Northwest also added Med 42 to cover the valley, and uses Med 42 to patch into Griffin ER.
New Haven Med 10 is longer used and there is no radio control center (RCC) for the New Haven area. Apparently AMR (MedComm) has taken over patching for Yale, St. Rays and Milford Hospitals.
Since AMR dispatches its own cars in New Haven, it already knows where those cars are going, so there is no need for "Charlie" units to sign on with anyone else.
Northwest also added Med 42 to cover the valley, and uses Med 42 to patch into Griffin ER.
New Haven Med 10 is longer used and there is no radio control center (RCC) for the New Haven area. Apparently AMR (MedComm) has taken over patching for Yale, St. Rays and Milford Hospitals.
Since AMR dispatches its own cars in New Haven, it already knows where those cars are going, so there is no need for "Charlie" units to sign on with anyone else.
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