[Scan-DC] Eagle 1 in Frederick County

[Alan Henney]

Ed, I was referring to MSP helicopters on county/municipal radio networks.
There's a problem getting the aircrews to communicate effectively.

As for Ocean City, there too, I noted the same problem.  At least two of
the last three medevac flights this past summer in O.C., the helicopter
never made it through to the "Trooper channel" and ended up on the main
group or something else.

Alan


On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 8:48 AM Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Your subject line says Eagle 1 in Frederick County but you’re text refers
> to a run by MSP in PG. It it MSP or USPP that’s having the problems?
>
> Here in OC the MSP Troopers never seem to have the comms problem you
> describe.
>
> Ed
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 18, 2019, at 3:28 AM, Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm often disappointed by how poorly MSP Troopers communicate with the
> > county and municipal agencies.  For example, a few days ago they had a
> > medevac in PGCo.  The helicopter crew is able to get to the main
> talkgroup
> > but rarely gets to the correct working channel.
> >
> > They've been through this repeatedly.  The dispatcher ends up setting the
> > LZ on the main channel... totally unacceptable to have millions invested
> in
> > an aircraft with a highly skilled crew and they can't operate the radio.
> > Or is it a radio programming problem?
> >
> > They might as well let the medic take the patient by ground to the
> hospital
> > until they get this finally fixed.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 9:24 AM Joseph M. Durnal <
> joseph.durnal at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Last night the Frederick County Sheriffs Office responded to a domestic
> >> assault that ended up having two victims and two helicopters were
> needed.
> >> Trooper 3 from Frederick, and usually, Trooper 2 would be the second,
> but
> >> they must have been busy so they sent Eagle 1 from the USPP.  What I
> found
> >> really impressive was that Eagle 1 was able to talk to Frederick County
> >> Fire Rescue on the county system.  Their audio is better than Trooper 3.
> >>
> >> Other than a general understanding that the lower the number/letter the
> >> more serious the injury, I finally decided to look up priority and
> >> category.  The first hit on Bing when I searched  "ems priority and
> >> category" was https://henney.com/chm/0309/chm0309.pdf - unfortunately
> >> these
> >> patients were both 1A.
> >>
> >> J
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