[Scan-DC] 460.600 - Port Deposit?

[John M. Nash]

Steve:

Your on target.  Dispatcher was warning Hartford County units of possible
flood waters coming down river from Port Despoit as a result of yesterday's
storms

John Nash.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Uhrig" <Steve@swssec.com>
To: <scan-dc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 10:05 PM
Subject: [Scan-DC] 460.600 - Port Deposit?


> On 3 Aug 2002 at 18:08, John M. Nash" <j.m.nash@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Because of the weather I'm picking up a skip on 460.600 which should
> > be Fairfax FD 4B. I'm picking up fire operations but can't determine
> > the jurisdiction. Command 5 is working with a number of units with 5xx
> > designations.  I'm guessing a Maryland location I think near Edgewood.
> > Is there a Port Deposit somewhere?
>
> 460.600 is Harford County, Maryland's primary fire dispatch channel.
>
> Harford County is in the northeastern part of MD, for those who are
> not familiar. Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Broad Creek Boy Scout Camp,
> Edgewood Arsenal, Conowingo Dam, Peachbottom Atomic Power Plant. Me.
>
> Port Deposit is in Cecil County, just the other side of the
> Susquehanna River. Immediately on the north side of Conowingo Dam on
> U.S. Route 1. Perhaps you heard Harford County responding to a mutual
> aid call in Cecil County, since Port Deposit is on the county lines,
> separated only by the river. Each county can operate the other's
> frequencies, especially for stations near the common borders.
>
> Harford County sheriff and public safety has signed a multizillion
> dollar agreement to go to a batwing digital 800 system within the
> next few years. The current UHF system works well and is perfectly
> adequate, but Motorola decided the county hadn't spent enough money
> with them lately so they directed the county to replace the UHF
> system with the 800.
>
> Trunking the 20 or so UHF channels from the various county agencies
> would have made much more sense.
>
> I do some commo and covert operations electronics for the multi
> jurisdictional drug task force operating in this area, so I am fairly
> intimate with the systems up here.
>
> Steve
>
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