the 100% directionless thread

JPINFV said:
Technically, proper radio technique is to initiate transmissions with "Hey you, it's me" and not "It's me, hey you." Granted, with dispatch radios there's a valid argument that all traffic goes through the dispatcher anyways, therefore all transmissions are for the dispatcher anyways, but that's neither here nor there.


My pet peeve is "Over and out." You can be "over," you can be "out," but it is impossible to both be "I'm done transmitting and expect a reply" and "I'm done transmitting and don't expect a reply" at the same time.
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chaz90 said:
"Sussex, be advised it's your pleasure at this time"
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I just vomited on myself.

The first place I worked required us to start to every transmission with "Operations, XYZ 28." Failing to do so would get you in trouble with dispatch. I'm having a hard time breaking that habit, everyone out here looks at me funny.
 
chaz90 said:
There are fire channels, but our radios are set to scan them. I do think people talk just to hear their voice though. 21 volunteer departments, each with their own band of chiefs that like to be "organizing" things.
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It's really a disorganized mess. We have a state of the art, fully digital state wide 800 Mhz system that gets used like a CB. There are so many holdovers form the old days, it makes me crazy. For instance, if I want to talk to the hospital, I need to ask the dispatcher for "a patch" and then change my radio to that channel to talk to the hospital. There is no more patching to be done. The hospital just has a radio on it's own talk group. I could just switch to the hospital channel and call them, but the dispatchers insist that I contact them to hail the hospital for me. Pointless.

We also deal with several dispatch centers here. A couple of towns didn't want to give up their dispatch center and go in with the county consortium, so when these towns need medics, they dispatch their BLS ambulance and then call the county dispatch on the phone to request a medic. It can sometimes be upwards of 4 or 5 minutes before the medic unit is dispatched. Of course, we try to keep an ear on these dispatches and head in the direction that we're needed... but it's frustrating.

Again, thank the Lord for the CAD.
 
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EVOC today...party with the orange cones all day!
 
JPINFV said:
Technically, proper radio technique is to initiate transmissions with "Hey you, it's me" and not "It's me, hey you."
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Failure to follow "Hey you, it's me" drives me up the freaking wall. I want to commit violence upon people who use "It's me, hey you".
 
Hunter said:
Put in my 2 weeks at my IFT company after almost 2 years, starting with a 911 department soon, nervous o.o
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That's awesome. Where?

TheLocalMedic said:
Or the people who have to preface every radio transmission...

Instead of saying "Medic 91 at scene" it becomes a freaking ordeal...

"Dispatch, medic 91."

"Medic 91 go ahead."

"Dispatch, medic 91 at scene."

For some reason this kills me.
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We aren't required to do this, but so many people do. It's obnoxious.
 
I don't know if I'm weird but it bugs me when people say numbers as they are rather than breaking them down. Like "eighty one" instead of "eight one." "One twenty over eighty" instead of "one two zero over eight zero"
 
adamjh3 said:
I don't know if I'm weird but it bugs me when people say numbers as they are rather than breaking them down. Like "eighty one" instead of "eight one." "One twenty over eighty" instead of "one two zero over eight zero"
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That's just you being weird haha.

Our dispatch is completely relaxed. We have a radio channel dedicated to calling the hospitals but it is never used. No seriously never used. In the 2 years I have been working I have never used it or heard of anyone that used it. The hospitals prefer for us to call them via cell phone.

To the most part we are pretty professional over the radio but there are times when we all joke around. We have a dispatcher that when she makes a mistake dispatching a call and goes to correct it she will sometimes say "whoops I lied, it's on Sunrise Ave not Indian" so the normal thing to reply with is "Medic 405 copy you lied".
 
adamjh3 said:
I don't know if I'm weird but it bugs me when people say numbers as they are rather than breaking them down. Like "eighty one" instead of "eight one." "One twenty over eighty" instead of "one two zero over eight zero"
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Wait, you prefer "one two zero over eight zero" over "one twenty over 80?" Heresy! I'm the complete opposite. The only time I'll break numbers down are when giving ages over the radio report if it's an easily misheard age, like 50 vs. 15. I suppose I use it for our own unit numbers too, because "Medic One Hundred and Seven" would sound beyond stupid. How about this though? BLS and fire units here are all referred to with letters and a two digit number that is expressed as "A eighty seven" for A87.
 
chaz90 said:
Wait, you prefer "one two zero over eight zero" over "one twenty over 80?" Heresy! I'm the complete opposite. The only time I'll break numbers down are when giving ages over the radio report if it's an easily misheard age, like 50 vs. 15. I suppose I use it for our own unit numbers too, because "Medic One Hundred and Seven" would sound beyond stupid. How about this though? BLS and fire units here are all referred to with letters and a two digit number that is expressed as "A eighty seven" for A87.
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I can tell you why I hate it, too, I've always had crappy radios. If I didn't break it down I'd inevitably have to repeat it.
 
chaz90 said:
Wait, you prefer "one two zero over eight zero" over "one twenty over 80?" Heresy! I'm the complete opposite. The only time I'll break numbers down are when giving ages over the radio report if it's an easily misheard age, like 50 vs. 15. I suppose I use it for our own unit numbers too, because "Medic One Hundred and Seven" would sound beyond stupid. How about this though? BLS and fire units here are all referred to with letters and a two digit number that is expressed as "A eighty seven" for A87.
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The proper thing to do is break down numbers and use a phonetic alphabet. A87 should be "alpha-eight-seven."
 
ICS 300. Yayyy... Two more days...
 
shfd739 said:
I feel your pain lol. i took it a few years ago and some of the other agencies involved were scary.
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I'm about ready to choke a couple of the students from DSHS :glare:
 
Due to some of the absolutely crazy names I've come across working in the ghetto as of late I've decided on what I'm naming my first child regardless of their gender and my last name.

Darius Maximus Flaxseed Jackson Junior Mason James III
 
And my city is on fire. No, literally. For the past 4 hours all I have heard is sirens, airplanes, and helicopters.
 
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