[Scan-DC] Falls Church PD

[KENNETH FOWLER]

The message I got was that their equipment was out of service and they had to switch to the backup radio system.  It must be locally installed equipment for dispatch consoles to connect to the Arlington system. They might have been installing updated hardware/software at the Falls Church control point. 


> On 09/10/2020 7:55 AM Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  
> How is it structured so that Falls Church radios on the Arlington system could go down but the rest of the Arlington system is ok? I would think Falls Church is just a TGID on the Arlington system. At least that’s how it appears on my HP1.
> 
> > On Sep 10, 2020, at 12:28 AM, KENNETH FOWLER <fxpd614 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > A post on radioreference answered all the questions. Falls Church is using the Fairfax P25 system as a backup.  The person whom posted 
> > advised that he logged TGID 1363 as Falls Church PD1.  When their primary radios on the Arlington system went down they switched to
> > the backup. 
> > 
> > Kenneth 
> > N4VKF
> > 
> >> On 09/08/2020 7:16 PM KENNETH FOWLER <fxpd614 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> It's what I was thinking.  I know when we go into failsoft mode
> >> we share a voice channel with Herndon and or Vienna but the backup
> >> is a different system altogether. 
> >> 
> >>>> On 09/08/2020 7:09 PM dewey3 at gmail.com wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> The Fairfax County P-16 system shows a number of "Police Backup Talkgroups."
> >>> Is it possible that they're using one or more of those?
> >>> 
> >>> Dewey
> > 
> >>> Falls Church PD radios were down today. I was told they were using the
> >>> Fairfax County backup system.   Any idea what talkgroup numbers?
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