Warren county park commission frequencies

[IFRIED91]

Not as drastic as going from 1980s era low band radios to 700 MHz APX on TDMA simulcast trunking lol

I’m still questioning how some counties upstate are still using lo-band on fireground freqs

 

[chrismol1]

I’m still questioning how some counties upstate are still using lo-band on fireground freqs

You mean the equipment? Moto made lowband up till like 2015 last order, kenwood portables followed few yrs shortly after but still have mobiles. probably some supplemented by ebay. Lot of counties have or are upgrading to VHF. I think a few left may have lowband dispatch but use VHF or UHF portables for fireground or licenses to specific departments vs county license, stuff like that. I remember back in the day fire depts used to have individual licensed fireground freqs instead or in addition to under county licenses, some lowband some VHF to supplement for portables. There's nothing to compare the magic after replacing their MT1000 HT1250 huge antenna lowband with a APX on a simulcast system. Its like going from smoke signals to satellite comms. From a nokia bar phone to a new iPhone. No doubling, filtering background noises, clear voice, hear the entire incident in the district or mutual aid. and the dispatchers using multiple towers thru the county didn't have to hear doubling of different FDs calling enroute on the same dispatch channel not hearing the other, and asking for repeats. The fire guys here were very excited and amused to turn to a tac channel on a portable and hear fireground response 30+ miles at the other end of the county in crystal clear voice. no repeats or trying to understand thru static. Magic

 

[KC2zZe]

I'm confused. Is both the fireground radio traffic and the response radio traffic now being run on a tac channel through the "simulcast" system? Is the simulcast system trunked?

 

[IFRIED91]

I'm confused. Is both the fireground radio traffic and the response radio traffic now being run on a tac channel through the "simulcast" system? Is the simulcast system trunked?

Fire alert is for 1 way communications and tone outs … think of alerting pagers which do not Transmit back… after the tones go out; the responding units would respond back on fire/EMS control..

 

[KC2zZe]

Okay; so you've accounted for the dispatch radio traffic. And response radio traffic. Where is the fireground traffic that chrismol1 writes of handled? Also over the "simulcast" system?

 

[chrismol1]

Its as listed, theres a county wide fireground freq then individual FDs have their own fireground freqs, some repeaters, some not

 

[N2YQT]

There is no fireground traffic on the simulcast system. The county fireground channel is simplex. Washington County also uses the same frequency. Those with their own frequencies may use repeaters, but that's as fancy as it gets. The ''system" is just the manner of multiple sites transmitting/receiving simultaneously that the county continues to dump money into. It's invisible to the end user. There are no assigned Tac channels. Fire Control and EMS Control are answered by the same person who gets mad when they both talk at the same time even though they can't hear each other.