[ScanIndiana] Strong Signals - Radio System News

Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:33:42 -0800 (PST)

The best description of Hoosier Safe-T that I have
heard is "Technological Overkill".

--- Todd E Trimble <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 27 November 2003 13:10,
> [email protected] wrote:
> >
>
http://www.strongsignals.net/access/news/news.cgi?type=single&section=rad
> 
> It's interesting that every article or propaganda
> session about SAFE-T 
> leaves out the fact that VHF radios can be pretty
> "interoperable" they way 
> they've been used for years.  FD on scene of
> something and need to talk to 
> the deputy re-routing traffic?  He's probably
> monitoring the FD frequency 
> anyway, try that first.  No answer?  Turn the knob
> to 4 (or whatever 
> channel the radio guy programmed the Shf dept
> repeater into on the FD 
> radios) and try there...  Need to talk to the
> highway truck?  That's 
> channel 10.  The hospital?  IHERN is 12.  Want to
> know weather outlook?  16 
> is NOAA weather.  Need to know when the mutual aid
> tanker's gonna arrive?  
> Statewide MA is 7.  On the scene of a wreck in
> Decatur Co and need to talk 
> to a wrecker service from South Bend?...I didn't
> think so.  (But I bet 
> dispatch can relay if you _really_ find a need.)
> 
> Yes, 16 channel VHF radios cost more than 4ch...but
> not nearly as much as 
> the proscribed trunking gear.  Have a _real_ need to
> talk across the state?  
> Cell phones...or what ever happened to the "VHF-Low"
> gear ISP used to 
> use...or know how to contact your local ARES/RACES
> teams?
> 
> On a lighter note, I recently had to fill out a
> survey about department 
> equipment and supplies.  One section of the survey
> was about "interoperable 
> communications" gear.  Item #1 on the list was
> "bullhorn".  Gee...we've 
> been "interoperable" for years...can't get the
> mutual aid department to 
> answer on the radio?  Yell louder in the bullhorn...
> 
> (Sorry...done preaching to the choir...for now...)
> -- 
> Todd Trimble
> 
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