Washington Township Fire Dispatch

[wgforster]

I'm trying to figure out how to monitor my local fire dispatch in Washington Township, a suburb of Dayton in Montgomery County. The database shows a TG for the MARCS system but I have heard no traffic on that TG. There is TG for County Fire Dispatch which is very active but seems to handle surrounding fire districts. There is a regional dispatch on VHF 154.130 which seems to transmit initial calls but no two way comms going on. Anybody nearby figure out how to pick up Washington Township fire dispatch. Thanks,

 

[radioscan]

Always check the Wiki for this type of information. You will find it there.

Washington Township Fire is dispatched by the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center (RDC).
They are dispatched on TGID 58023 57RDC FIRE1.

 

[wgforster]

Sorry, I spent some time looking through the Montgomery County wiki page and did not find the reference you provided, thanks. That TG is the County Fire Dispatch, it's not identified as the Regional Dispatch Center. I'm a newbie at this, so confused. And then Wash Township has their own TG in the database but they switched to the RDC apparently, which obsoletes that TG I assume. Anyway, thanks for the help and the quick reply.

 

[radioscan]

Sorry, I spent some time looking through the Montgomery County wiki page and did not find the reference you provided, thanks. That TG is the County Fire Dispatch, it's not identified as the Regional Dispatch Center. I'm a newbie at this, so confused. And then Wash Township has their own TG in the database but they switched to the RDC apparently, which obsoletes that TG I assume. Anyway, thanks for the help and the quick reply.

RDC is the County Fire Dispatch, but they do not dispatch for every department, the Wiki shows a list of who dispatches for who.
The RDC is located on the old Mound Laboratories site in Miamisburg. I'm sure the WTFD TG is still there, and maintained as a back-up talkgroup. If you look at the alpha tag for 58023 it is 57RDC Fire 1. So it is listed as RDC to an extent, just not in the description.

 

[amcferrin90]

Sorry, I spent some time looking through the Montgomery County wiki page and did not find the reference you provided, thanks. That TG is the County Fire Dispatch, it's not identified as the Regional Dispatch Center. I'm a newbie at this, so confused. And then Wash Township has their own TG in the database but they switched to the RDC apparently, which obsoletes that TG I assume. Anyway, thanks for the help and the quick reply.

It would be something to listen to. It seems they're not using it for dispatch. It could be for fireground but that wouldn't be very interoperable. It could be for station communications or special events. The fact you don't hear anything on it means it's something to keep in your scan list for that one time it's being used.

 

[KB8KOJ]

Dispatch paging is actually 58024 RDC FIRE2 (simulcast on 154.13).

 

[wgforster]

Dispatch paging is actually 58024 RDC FIRE2 (simulcast on 154.13).

Thank you, this did the trick. Convenient that it is simulcast on VHF, so can monitor on HT.

 

[KB8KOJ]

Thank you, this did the trick. Convenient that it is simulcast on VHF, so can monitor on HT.

Yep, when WTFD went to Regional Dispatch it didn't take me long to get into VHF pagers and move the old scanners capable of Quick Call tones over to the VHF simulcast.

There is too much traffic going on there when you just want to listen to home.

Also, if there are multiple units dispatched to a incident they are given a FD Ops channel. You usually hear them arrive and depart on these OPs channels. If it's just 1 unit you hear the arrive and depart on 5023 RDC Fire 1.

 

[wa8pyr]

If it's just 1 unit you hear the arrive and depart on 5023 RDC Fire 1.

Don't be surprised if that changes at some point. A lot of departments are moving all operational traffic off to other talkgroups, whether it's one truck or ten, simply because all the traffic on the dispatch channel can prevent them from dispatching runs in a timely manner.

 

[fordcobra04]

Don't be surprised if that changes at some point. A lot of departments are moving all operational traffic off to other talkgroups, whether it's one truck or ten, simply because all the traffic on the dispatch channel can prevent them from dispatching runs in a timely manner.

Calls are dispatched via Locution on RDC Fire 2. No issue of delayed dispatch.