[Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG

Jerry Hoyt jerryinva at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 6 22:22:15 EST 2011 

Interoperability issues still exist. Maryland State Police radios are simulcast on both Prince George's and MoCo trunked systems, for example.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Blasberg <ka8ypy at verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 02:48:24 
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG

Um, so move all units off of the digital talk group to a simplex  
interop frequency for a single localized incident to accomodate a  
single agency?


On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:01 PM, Andrew Clegg wrote:

> I could understand BWI not being able to talk to PG while still at  
> BWI due to distance, but since PG was going to give them portables  
> upon arrival, then the issue was on-scene communications. Even just  
> a simplex channel would have allowed interop. Did they not have even  
> that?
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 18:34, Russ Davies <russdavies at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Could it have just initially been an issue of range? I know that  
>> PGFD is one of the zones in the Anne Arundel portables, but only in  
>> the portables which limits the range. Coming off the BWI property  
>> I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been able to get the PG system  
>> until they were further south. Just a thought.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:58 PM, "Jerry Hoyt " <jerryinva at hotmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am sure there is, maybe not specifically for these two agencies.  
>>> I did a major report for a counter-terrorism graduate school class  
>>> at Hopkins which discussed how this was still a problem for the  
>>> National Capital Region, but that was a few years ago. Lexus-Nexus  
>>> provided some useful links.
>>>
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: "Clegg  Andrew W." <aclegg at nsf.gov>
>>> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:54:41
>>> To: <jerryinva at hotmail.com>; <fivealarmphotography at gmail.com>; <knbrooks at wusa9.com 
>>> >
>>> Cc: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a link to a published news report regarding the  
>>> lack of
>>> interoperability between PG and BWI during this incident? I find  
>>> this
>>> astonishing, more than 30 years after Air Florida. If there is no
>>> published report, this should be forwarded to a news organization  
>>> for
>>> broader exposure (WUSA9, perhaps??).
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>>> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jerry Hoyt
>>> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 10:32 PM
>>> To: Matt Stevens ; knbrooks at wusa9.com
>>> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
>>>
>>> Ahhh. The ugly old monster of lack of interoperability rears its  
>>> ugly
>>> head again.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------Original Message------
>>> From: Matt Stevens
>>> To: knbrooks at wusa9.com
>>> Cc: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Unit 5 Enroute Rt 301 PG
>>> Sent: Dec 5, 2011 10:19 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> 2 Engines, 1 Tanker, 1 Paramedic and Battalion Chief 2 from Anne  
>>> Arundel
>>> County are enroute.
>>>
>>> Crash Rigs from BWI Airport are also enroute. They do not have any  
>>> radio
>>> contact with PG. BWI dispatch told the BWI FD units that people on  
>>> scene
>>> would give them radios.
>>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Brooks, Kurt <knbrooks at wusa9.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Overturned fuel tanker sb 301 @ 450.
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