[ScanIndiana] unknown abbreviation TX

[Jackie McElroy]

	On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 at 17:40:29,
	Chance Westfall <westfallchance@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hear the police in Knox county and other counties sometime
> say "give me a TX" I'm guessing that tx has something to do
> with a phone from what I hear. Is it true?

Wow. I haven't heard that in years, not since I left Indiana. Back when
I started dispatching in 1972 in Indiana we would us TX as short for
fone call, as in, TX the station for call the police station, or TX your
home or TX the jail or whatever. That was just in Indiana, tho. When I
went to Washington, D.C., TX stood for radio transmission but was mostly
used by the techs in the radio shop and seldom by the dispatchers. Here
in Florida, where I've worked at 3 different centers, you never hear it
at all. We use landline, as in landline communications or landline the
station lieutenant's office.
 
-jackie

Jackie McElroy
9-1-1 Communications
Reedy Creek Fire Department
Walt Disney World, Florida
(I speak for me and only me.)
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