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« Thread Started on Apr 15, 2005, 7:53pm »

do yall change to a fireground or secondayr frequency when u get on scene?
when we get to the scene al but one of the trucks and all portables goto fireground

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Re: radios
« Reply #1 on Apr 15, 2005, 8:03pm »

when the call is dispatched we're givin the channel which is usually the main responce channel. All calls are run on that channel, but when we get to house fires, and MVA's huge gass leaks....etc....we switch to a private channel souly used for that incident. And all our portibles are on the same frequency as the fire trucks

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Re: radios
« Reply #2 on Apr 15, 2005, 8:44pm »

our portables are pre-programmed, and the one of the channels is our fireground. When you turn on a protable, its automatically on the fireground. Only the chief & engineer are automatically on fire dispatch.

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Re: radios
« Reply #3 on Apr 15, 2005, 8:47pm »

We have 3 channels. 1 main, 1 North, and 1 talk around. We use the main channel for all calls that are south of our repeater. When we go north we switch to the North channel. All the talk around channel does is make it so dispatch cant hear us. So if we are doing training with a lot of radio communications we go to that channel.

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Re: radios
« Reply #4 on Apr 15, 2005, 10:26pm »

Yes once on scence we switch to a fire ground channel we have five fire grounds in the county. Command will monitor fire channel 1 and the fireground channels. All personnel working the hot zone are required to have a radio.

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Re: radios
« Reply #5 on Apr 21, 2005, 12:25am »

Yes...we have hundreds and hundreds of radio channels. On our HT's we have up to 20 different banks, each bank can hold roughly 10-12 different radio frequencies. Each bank is set up according to where we go most often, for example...one bank might be full of Federal radio frequencies, another might have all the tac nets, another might have the frequencies of all the various HQ's around the state, and so on and so forth.

We have one freq. that we stay on that is our main dispatch, it's called our Support Net...when we are dispatched to a fire, they give us a TAC net (tactical) that we talk to each other on at the scene...Once we get a bigger incident, we might have a Command net, that the IC's all talk to each other on, two or three different tac nets, depending on where you are, and what repeater you need to be on, as well as Air to Air, and Air to Ground nets...we also have a talk about, which is a line-of-site option that doesn't utilize repeaters...we also have them in our engines and call it Travel Net, so that as we're driving on strike teams around the state, we can talk to each of the engines without having to use a repeater, which would require you to change the tone repeatedly as you move up and down the state.

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Re: radios
« Reply #6 on Apr 21, 2005, 7:18pm »

you guys get all the toys and its not fair!!! all we have are crappy 4 channel vhf's that barely work from one end of the truck to the other!

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Re: radios
« Reply #7 on Apr 25, 2005, 8:42am »

We have 4 frequencys... A,B,C,D or 1,2,3,4

Local Dispatch on A (My dept is dispatched by the city PD)
County Dispatch on B
County Fireground Ops on C
I dont know what happened to D though... We never use it. For the most part, unless its a big call we just stay on A because its very quiet. Only 4 out of about 38 depts get dispatched on it.

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Re: radios
« Reply #8 on Apr 27, 2005, 11:51am »

on our radios we have 9 chanels.......
chanel 1 fire control(pri)
chanel 2 fire control (secondary)
chanel 3 fire police chanel
chanel 4 our fire companies private chanel
chanel 5 our nehboring companies private chanel
chanel 6 inter county
chanel 7 is scan pri chanel 1
chanel 8 is scan pri chanel 3
chanel 9 is scan pri chanel 4

no matter what call we go to all personal must go to chanel 9////// cause at any given time any ff might need to call dispatch........ this is because most of our ff;s are also EMT's....

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Re: radios
« Reply #9 on May 23, 2005, 4:49am »

so i would guess its safe to say things are different at other departments

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Re: radios
« Reply #10 on May 23, 2005, 4:09pm »

Yeah... I think it is...

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Re: radios
« Reply #11 on May 24, 2005, 7:07pm »

ok so how are your pagers set up

we have minitor II's that are set up 3 ways
1 our tones only the beep beep beep one
2 county wide alerts (used for messages and weather allerts)
3 open listen to county wide traffic

so what do you use and how is it set up

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Re: radios
« Reply #12 on May 27, 2005, 9:47am »

Miniter 2's

1- Tones only, moniter mofe
2 and 3- All tones and traffic

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Re: radios
« Reply #13 on May 28, 2005, 12:15pm »

Minitor 4's
1- Tone Alert Only
2- Main Dispatch with Alert
3- Vibrate Alert Only
4- Main Dispatch with Vibrate Alert

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Re: radios
« Reply #14 on Feb 15, 2007, 2:10am »

WE USE AN 800 MHZ TYPE 2 TRUNKING SYSTEM.
ON OUR PORTABLES AND BASE RADIOS WE HAVE :
COUNTY FIRE DISPATCH: MOST OF OUR TRF TAKES PLACE HERE ON ROUTINE CALLS.
COUNTY FIRE DISPATCH 2: HANDLES ALL SUPPORT REQUESTS IN TIMES OF HIGH DEMAND (WINTER STORMS, THUNDER STORMS, ETC)
THEN WE HAVE OUR TAC (FIREGROUND) CHANNELS
THEY ARE 1- 30. THEY ARE USED FOR LARGE MVA'S AND WORKING FIRES
ON TOP OF THAT EACH DEPARTMENT HAS ITS OWN PRIVATE CHANNEL THAT ONLY THAT DEPARTMENTS RADIO'S CAN HEAR. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THERE IS AN EMERGENCY CHANNEL FOR IMMEDIATE NEED FOR HELP. (MAN DOWN SITUATIONS.)

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