VISITING SAN DIEGO - SD City/County & Cities for FIRE Which Systems

JimD56

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I'm visiting San Diego in a few weeks, specifically NAS North Island.
Which Systems for SD City Fire, SD County Fire, and Surrounding Cities? (Coronado) Don't care about PD/Sheriff
Is it the 700mhz System? The 800mhz System? The San Diego-Imperial County RCS NextGen?
I'm good to go with all the Federal Navy stuff.
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Jim
 

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For the city of San Diego, the 700 MHz system. For Coronado, the RCS South Zone. Coronado FD is dispatched by Metro on the RCS system. May want to monitor United States Department of Defense (14C) to monitor the military FD.

 

JimD56

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For the city of San Diego, the 700 MHz system. For Coronado, the RCS South Zone. Coronado FD is dispatched by Metro on the RCS system. May want to monitor United States Department of Defense (14C) to monitor the military FD.

I can't find any "Metro Fire" listings or Coronado FD talk groups in the Database. What am I missing?
 

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The DoD system talkgroups for Coronado and North Island on the Naval Base San Diego site would work well...the base police channels and the Fed Fire stuff. For city FD stuff, you just want the zone 6 talkgroups on Nextgen RCS.

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I'm visiting San Diego in a few weeks, specifically NAS North Island.
Which Systems for SD City Fire, SD County Fire, and Surrounding Cities? (Coronado) Don't care about PD/Sheriff
Is it the 700mhz System? The 800mhz System? The San Diego-Imperial County RCS NextGen?
I'm good to go with all the Federal Navy stuff.
Thanks
Jim
Not to sure if you have gone on your trip yet but I was recently in San Diego and learned that on actual incidents the majority of on scene radio traffic is on the (command) channel for example CMD 8A would be the channel to program to listen to on scene traffic not 8B and there pulsepoint is about instantly with the dispatch
 

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Not to sure if you have gone on your trip yet but I was recently in San Diego and learned that on actual incidents the majority of on scene radio traffic is on the (command) channel for example CMD 8A would be the channel to program to listen to on scene traffic not 8B and there pulsepoint is about instantly with the dispatch

Command channels are for reports to/from the dispatcher (usually only the Battalion Chief is there), tac channels are between units once on scene. Some incidents will only show up on the FD CAD, but not PulsePoint (like shootings/stabbings and the like).
 

Peter_SD911

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Command channels are for reports to/from the dispatcher (usually only the Battalion Chief is there), tac channels are between units once on scene. Some incidents will only show up on the FD CAD, but not PulsePoint (like shootings/stabbings and the like).

Bud would know...
He's been tipping local news stations (for pay) for about 40 years now.
Probably submitted 500,00 tips or more.

Scanning Sexy..
And getting paid for it.
 

inigo88

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Not to sure if you have gone on your trip yet but I was recently in San Diego and learned that on actual incidents the majority of on scene radio traffic is on the (command) channel for example CMD 8A would be the channel to program to listen to on scene traffic not 8B and there pulsepoint is about instantly with the dispatch

Command channels are for reports to/from the dispatcher (usually only the Battalion Chief is there), tac channels are between units once on scene. Some incidents will only show up on the FD CAD, but not PulsePoint (like shootings/stabbings and the like).

Unlike some other similar radio systems in other counties, all responding units are initially on the Command channel as well. Once on scene they're supposed to switch to Tac and talk with the IC on Tac, leaving Command open for IC to dispatcher communications... but they can be slow to switch sometimes and need reminding. :)
 
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