[ScanIndiana] Strong Signals - Radio System News

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:38:05 -0500

Hi Todd and others..........You miss the point......Motorola always has a
reason, as well as  salesmen in pretty suits.  Together those factors make
a big point when they are twisting the arms of the managers and big shots
of the cities and states they sell to.  Reason never comes into it.
Hancock County is now on the list to mail checks to them.  Larry W9HTK

At 09:41 AM 12/1/03 -0500, you 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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