two-way radio question

[medman123]

What kind of 2 ways do you use; I know it may very from state to state. Do you guys use uhf radios? Vhf radios? Or something else? Thanks in advance!

 

[will]

The entire County where I live runs off one Fire Dispatch unit/system all of which is a VHF system. Pretty much everyone in the County uses VHF (Police/Fire) with our Small city utilizing UHF (seem to recall hearing once it's an older system)

 

[medman123]

The entire County where I live runs off one Fire Dispatch unit/system all of which is a VHF system. Pretty much everyone in the County uses VHF (Police/Fire) with our Small city utilizing UHF (seem to recall hearing once it's an older system)

Thanks a million!

 

[ffemt8978]

Smoke signals usually work the best out here





Actually, we use a county wide VHF system that is in the process of being converted over to narrow band frequencies to comply with the FCC rules. Each district has their own tac freqs, but for main dispatch we can here anyone in the county (that is the third largest in the state).

 

[Chimpie]

Motorola's 800mhz Digital Astro System

 

[KEVD18]

900mhz privacy plus

 

[MMiz]

Each unit has two mobile radios and three hand-held radios:

800 MHz - Communicate with dispatch
VHF - Communicate with local departments
Medcom VHF - Hospital communication

I'd use UHF if I was covering a small campus or building, and VHF for anything larger.

 

[Jon]

The whole county is on a digitally trunked, 800mhz EF-Junk (I mean EFJohnson) system.

 

[Tincanfireman]

We use a repeater based 400MHz UHF system at my full time job, and Nextels at my ambulance job. Both have benefits and drawbacks, but I prefer any radio system over the Nextels

 

[KEVD18]

i prefer two cans and a string to nextels

 

[Jon]

i prefer two cans and a string to nextels

Amen.

I'm counting down the days to the end of my contract.. so I can go to Cingular.

 

[MedikErik]

Motorola 800mhz.

 

[medman123]

Amen.

I'm counting down the days to the end of my contract.. so I can go to Cingular.

Now AT&T

 

[Jon]

Now AT&T

They were ATT, then they were Cingular, now they want to be ATT again... Either way, it beats the heck out of Nextel.

 

[Tincanfireman]

Either way, it beats the heck out of Nextel.

I really hope that someone from Nextel finds out about this thread, so they can see all the unsolicited feedback regarding how their product is being accepted in the EMS world...

 

[PArescueEMT]

out here, we are on VHF for fire and EMS except for the city of vineland (read state of) who is on 800 Mhz.

 

[mtsjess]

Radios

We have in the past used Motorola HT750's, and up until recently we switched to a different one due to grants we received. Personally, I'll keep my old one...I love Motorola. The pager tone is much louder compared to our new ones...easier to wake up to.

 

[Mercy4Angels]

motorola ht1250. 800 mhz UHF

 

[bobert5064]

Local Radio's

Hi,

In my area we use mostly lowband (33Mhz area), but some towns a switching over to VHF, we also use UHF to communicate with CMED(hospitals). In our units we use mostly Motorola Syntor X 9000's. For portables we use MT1000's and P200's. Personally, I must the Syntor in my car, and an HT1000 for a portable.

 

[medicdan]

Hi,

In my area we use mostly lowband (33Mhz area), but some towns a switching over to VHF, we also use UHF to communicate with CMED(hospitals). In our units we use mostly Motorola Syntor X 9000's. For portables we use MT1000's and P200's. Personally, I must the Syntor in my car, and an HT1000 for a portable.

Bobert, where are you from?