Westchester County Fire Tones

[radioman2001]

Does anyone have a complete listing of Fire and EMS tones for Westchester County or where I can obtain one. My agency is looking for 2 different tone sets and I have been tasked to find them. I don't wish to contact the county until I have them as part of a proposal we are preparing to present to the county for adding our agency to their CAD system. PM me if you don't wish to make them public.

 

[Alarmguy]

Westchester County (NY) Fire Tone Outs - The RadioReference Wiki Maybe that will help, doesn't look like a complete list though.

 

[radioman2001]

I looked at that, not nearly complete enough to make a decision on a tone set, but thanks for the reply.

 

[ac316scu]

Art's Fire Photos:

you can use that and a tone decoder to figure it out. If your proposing something to the county why not wait on that tiny detail and have them let you know what tones would be best. What your doing just seems sketchy to me

 

[Alarms50]

If your proposing something to the county why not wait on that tiny detail and have them let you know what tones would be best. What your doing just seems sketchy to me

IMO, looking for tones would be one of the last things I would think about in setting up a with a new dispatch agency. To me, it would be more important to find out what frequency would be the best fit between 60 Control and your agency. If they are able to work off of one your freq's then you could pick whatever tones you would like. They have access to most, if not all, Westchester Fire & EMS agencies freqs, and their tones. Good luck with your proposal, 60 Control is a professional agency, and they have a lot of "toys" in their arsenal.

 

[radioman2001]

What you feel as sketchy is not, as I work for a New York State agency, and some of you know who I am. I was trying to make the proposal as complete as possible before presentation. I don't see the harm in knowing any departments tone out, if you feel otherwise, that's your problem. There are plenty of applications out there to get such info, and some mainly purported by this site.
Our agency already has multiple frequencies at multiple locations, and we have no need to actually use any Westchester County's frequencies ( the Chiefs have them already for coordination) we only need to be put into the CAD system and dispatched on 46.26 or another frequency.

 

[Alarms50]

If possible try to spec out 33.96MHz for dispatch. About 25% of Westchester FD's still use 46.26MHz as their primary response freq. A majority, almost 50% of Westchester FD's utilize the Fire/EMS Trunked System as their primary communications mode.

 

[DaveNF2G]

I would approach whoever does the paging coordination and ask them to assign a set of tones. They are the ones who can assure that your new tones don't conflict with existing tones.

 

[radioman2001]

Again I was trying to show in our proposal that there were available tone sets before I sent it to the County. Thanks to all who tried to help, I have our inter agency coordinator working on it now. The page out will be in conjunction with already being dispatched agencies in our territory, so I don't think there will be a conflict, just an additional set of tones.
Once that is done it's off to Putnam and then Dutchess Counties, New York for the same thing.

 

[100757]

what is the freq use in the live feed 60 control online westchester counrty

 

[SteveC0625]

Does anyone have a complete listing of Fire and EMS tones for Westchester County or where I can obtain one. My agency is looking for 2 different tone sets and I have been tasked to find them. I don't wish to contact the county until I have them as part of a proposal we are preparing to present to the county for adding our agency to their CAD system. PM me if you don't wish to make them public.

In many, many counties across the state and beyond, the 911 center or a county fire coordinator or a public safety communications unit (or similar) selects and issues the tone sets. The user agencies simply convey their needs with as much as detail as possible, and the county unit works with them to make it all happen.

If one does not know what type of encoder dispatch uses and what its capabilities and/or limitations might, suggesting tone sets may not be as useful as one might think.

When I put similar proposals together, I usually contact the central agency and determine what they need in the proposal. That way, I can focus on what they feel is important.

Way back in Minitor I and II days and previous, changing tones for a user agency was a very costly proposition involving purchasing all new tone reeds or vibrasponders and then tech costs to install and retweak the radios. Accordingly, as agencies merged into central dispatch systems, the county unit bent over backward to accommodate whatever tone systems and codes were already in the user agency's equipment. In this day of programmable pagers and two-way radios, there is much less need to present tone suggestions to the county unit.