[Scan-DC] Re: News Article...

Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:12:35 -0400

MPD radios don't work in the Metro. The only way to communicate in the 
tunnels is to advise a Station Manager that an MPD officer is entering the 
station and hope that they can get a Metro Transit officer to come to the 
location.

  MPD radios are set up to receive and transmit on MTPD channels and all 
other local agency channels but the frequency bridge has not been enabled. 
When all DC agencies come on board with MPD in using digital trunked, 
cross communication will be significantly improved. Right now an MPD 
officer can't even advise Park Police "Eagle" where to look on the ground 
without speaking to MPD dispatch who in turn has Park Police landline.

M. Loren

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:57:39 -0700 (PDT), dc2wheel <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> From what MPD officers have told me their digital
> trunked system doesn't work in Metro. Since MPD
> has re-enabled their old 'citywide' analog frequency
> on 159.15 patched through to the digital trs, it's
> possible that's what they're using when underground.
> -dc2wheel
>
> --- "Dorset, Thomas" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I know my Verizon cell phone works in the Metro and
>> I can hear Metro operations
>> on two VHF freqs with my Kenwood HT but I wonder if
>> the MPD's radios work there?
>>
>> 5/04/04 - London news section
>>
>> [snip]
>
>
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