[Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure

[Ed Tobias]

I just realized the same thing.  It appears that the plan for MPDC was to 
use National Capitol Region radios, but it was just reported that the MPDC 
radios are starting to come back up, possibly in fail-safe mode.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Cox, K3GEG" <k3geg at erols.com>
To: "Ed Tobias" <edtobias at comcast.net>; <ltbrown122 at aol.com>; 
<scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure


> MPDC cannot use Montgomery talk groups.  MPDC radios only work on 450 MHz
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Ed Tobias" <edtobias at comcast.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:05 PM
> To: <ltbrown122 at aol.com>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure
>
>> It appears that MPDC system is also down, as Joe reports.  I hear no data 
>> on
>> any of the MPDC control channels but I don't hear them using any of the
>> Montgomery TGs.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <ltbrown122 at aol.com>
>> To: "FH - Ed Tobias" <edtobias at comcast.net>;
>> <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net>; <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure
>>
>>
>>> Apparently MPD system is also down however I don't know if they are
>>> montgomery's system as well.
>>>
>>> Their system is completely down
>>> ------Original Message------
>>> From: FH - Ed Tobias
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>>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: [Scan-DC] DC Fire trunked radio failure
>>> Sent: Mar 29, 2010 19:50
>>>
>>> Montgomery County Fire is reporting that DC Fire has had a "catastrophic
>>> failure" of its 800 mHz radio system and that DCFD is operating on 
>>> several
>>> MCFRS 71-series talk groups.
>>>
>>> Ed
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