How do you communicate ?

[SafetyPro2]

Originally posted by MedicStudentJon@May 24 2005, 04:22 PM
From what I heard, this worked very well with the minor, little, incident with the 2 commuter trains a few months back.

What about direct communications with LAFD (City) and LACoFD????

Jon

Glendale and LAFD do run together a lot due to the close proximity and overlap of their areas. Initially, on the Metrolink incident, there was confusion about which city it was actually in (was initially dispatched as Glendale and turned out to be LA). Those tracks literally run along the border in some areas.

There's also a couple other areas where Verdugo cities border LAFD or LACoFD jurisdiction, such as Pasadena and South Pasadena with LAFD and San Gabriel and Alhambra with LACoFD.

I think in those cases, the Verdugo departments' radios may be programmed to talk directly to LAFD or LACoFD, and vice versa. I don't know for sure, but since I occasionally hear Verdugo units dispatched to County incidents with a "Blue" (County frequency) radio assignment, I think its a pretty good guess.

There are two statewide tactical frequencies programmed into our VHF radios, but those are supposed to be limited to very large incidents, such as wildland fires, and the State gets upset if you use them without authorization.

 

[emtd29]

Morse Code

 

[ECC]

FDNY still transmitts their station identifier via morse code to remain FCC compliant.

 

[Jon]

Originally posted by ECC@Jun 1 2005, 10:49 PM
FDNY still transmitts their station identifier via morse code to remain FCC compliant.

My county's Paging system (160 Mhz range) Uses multiple transmitters throughout the county, and outside the borders of the county. There is a morse code identifier that plays every 15 minutes when the frequency is used.... IE... if no page since 15 min. ago, it doesn't ID. It then ID's either before or after the next page.

On a related note to Morse Code - any Amateur Radio Operators here besides myself? If so, what part does that hobby have in this field for you?

Jon
N3VZG

 

[emtd29]

Originally posted by MedicStudentJon@Jun 2 2005, 07:58 PM
On a related note to Morse Code - any Amateur Radio Operators here besides myself? If so, what part does that hobby have in this field for you?

Jon
N3VZG

I'm a Ham. Been in the hobby for a long time, ( as a matter of fact it'll be 10 years exactly this coming Tuesday that I have had my ticket )

I really don't know how the two fields would be connected for me, other than that I know how to use a radio LOL


73

Steve
KB2UYY

 

[Chimpie]

I've been a HAM for 5 years. Only use my ticket for emergency comms. I can't stand the chit-chat that goes on most of the time.

Chimp
KB9WLT

 

[Jon]

I knew we got along for some reason... :lol:

My county has a VERY active RACES/ARES chapter. A lot of the folks have gone through the CERT training through Red Cross / VOAD, and they just started a program training the group to function as "calltakers" by deploying to area firehouses in the event of a phone failure / disaster. I'm affiilated, but haven't the time to be really active. I do a event communication about once every two months, several times now I've played both sides, being in the ambulance and on the radio at the same time.

It is kind of nice to be able to debug my work's radio system and radios. More than once, I've resucitated radios..... :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Jon

PS - PARescue is a Ham, he just dosen't have a ticket.... (sorry, had too)

 

[Stevo]

some manner of municipal tin can system when i came to town

i never knew where i was going , or what i was going to

but hey, it wasn't boring i guess....

~S~

 

[trauma1534]

At the county agancy where I work, we use county tones, pagers, hand held radios. I like the nextels. We used those in the city agancy I worked at. They really worked well. I wish the county I work at now had a tower, and we could convence them to go to those.

We are getting away from 10codes. However, we still have some providers who use them. We try to go with short, direct wording. It's easer to understand. Also, everyone in scanner land has a copy of the 10codes anyway, so we don't accomplish anything by useing them anymore.