Greetings. I have a question about VA. Beach and wonder if anyone else has noticed this. Probably a week or 2 ago I was monitoring fairly late at night and heard Dispatch transmit " All EMS units switch to ORION TAC....." and later " All Fire units switch to ORION TAC...." I don't remember the TAC's because I didn't really pay a lot of attention. I figured they were doing radio maintenance. Now I notice I only hear the automated and regular dispatch and almost never hear the mobiles. Also mainly hear EMS, not fire. Have they gone to MDT dispatch like Portsmouth or are they potentially on another talk group on ORION (not the VB ORION). Strange. Thanks in advance.
Eugene KG4AVE
I monitor VB Fire/EMS daily and haven't noticed any changes, everything is as it has been. Try monitoring if you can now, the rain has everyone everywhere and it's busy! I don't normally monitor Orion anymore, but I'll get it reprogrammed and start it up again, I'm gonna go with what
@LeSueurC said, more than likely it was training. I did hear an incident with Engine 6 and 13 working an accident just on the other side of the NC border Sunday evening, not sure if they coordinate over Orion or have a Currituck portable (me thinks they have Currituck portables) so that could be another possibility. Then again, anything is possible these days! Oh, of you do hear activity on the higher VB System Tac's, it's either training or a special event. But as of tonight, all dispatches and tacs are working, I heard a kitchen fire and a few accidents on the tacs with no issues. I hope you get it sorted, that can be highly annoying!!!
