Why Bay county

[monitorboy]

Hello would anyone know why the new fire tac channels/frequencies for Bay county .............just wondering .....TIA

 

[Ronaldski]

They are not using their fireground digital talkgroups as they did before since bay county went digital.
Idea is so when things are happening they won’t use up the available radio frequencies on the digital.
There are a handful of MI counties that have already done this. Livingston County, Washtenaw, maybe grand traverse?
All these TAC frequencies are in all the radios that 911 use across the U.S. if the agencies are on 800MHz.
They can be used to talk if for some reason the radio system had problems.
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Public_Safety#800_MHz

One thing though these frequencies are not on a repeater system meaning you may only pickup their radio a few miles away depending on the weather, where they are at and what type of an antenna you have. A couple weeks ago 8tac93 testing I was getting full signal on the same model you got for $5! 996xt with just the rod antenna, hopefully they incorporate a repeater at some point!

 

[GeneseeCoMI]

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[monitorboy]

They are not using their fireground digital talkgroups as they did before since bay county went digital.
Idea is so when things are happening they won’t use up the available radio frequencies on the digital.
There are a handful of MI counties that have already done this. Livingston County, Washtenaw, maybe grand traverse?
All these TAC frequencies are in all the radios that 911 use across the U.S. if the agencies are on 800MHz.
They can be used to talk if for some reason the radio system had problems.
https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Common_Public_Safety#800_MHz

One thing though these frequencies are not on a repeater system meaning you may only pickup their radio a few miles away depending on the weather, where they are at and what type of an antenna you have. A couple weeks ago 8tac93 testing I was getting full signal on the same model you got for $5! 996xt with just the rod antenna, hopefully they incorporate a repeater at some point!

10-4 on that thanks

 

[nvanw27]

I’m pretty sure they’d have to put a repeater into the system for it to achieve full functionality.


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[Gadgetmann]

For clarification on these National Interoperability channels, most are conventional analog channels with the exception of 700Mhz and UHF Federal(which are P25).
8TAC93 testing was noted above and hoping they incorporated a repeater at some point.
8TAC93 is a repeater channel, 8TAC93D is a direct/simplex channel.

Most MPSCS towers have 8CALL90, which are repeaters and they are voted and monitored by MSP.
There are very limited 8TAC9x repeaters.