Lee Massachusetts had a building fire on 12/14/2017 at 1215 PM so I listened to a couple of the radio tapes. This is what I came up with.
1. On 154.31, pages by "Berkshire County" / "Berkshire County Sheriff" are synchronized simulcast countywide. 2. Followup / response / enroute / onscene communications are not simulcast countywide - but they do occur on 154.31. 3. Becket Ambulance can be paged on 154.31 via a base that is not simulcast countywide. The Great Barrington FD feed picks up this base scratchy. 4. Great Barrington FD is paged on 154.31 by Great Barrington. This is not simulcast countywide. Apparently it is just done on a base in or near Great Barrington. 5. Lee Police and Lee Fire are now both dispatched by Berkshire County. Lee FD is paged and operates on 154.31. Lee Police is dispatched by County on some repeater - possibly 154.755 R. 6. The receiver site for the Great Barrington FD feed cannot hear mobiles in Lee. 7. Just Lee FD was paged to the Lee fire. Lenox FD was paged 4 minutes later after Lee Fire Chief arrived at the fire. Shortly after Lenox FD was paged, the Great Barrington FD was paged out to standby in the Great Barrington fire station. 8. The Pownal VT FD feed clearly picks up the simulcast pages from Berkshire County on 154.31. But the feed does not hear any of the other transmissions from Berkshire County. 9. There was no indication that any of the 152 Mhz channels were used. (Unless the County dispatcher was simulcasting on 154.31 and on a 152 Mhz channel - which is possible). 10. There was no indication that any 154.31 traffic in Berkshire County was on a repeater. To recap - on the Pownal VT feed - just the following was heard - 1215 PM Lee FD paged - 1219 PM Lenox FD paged - 1224 PM Stockbridge EMS paged (different incident) - 1226 PM Becket Ambulance paged (by mistake) - each pager tone set is transmitted just once Come to think of it - if the Pownal VT feed heard Becket get paged - why was it scratchy on the Great Barrington feed? The Lee and Lenox pages were loud and clear. Maybe there was some local interefence that affected the Great Barrington receiver at that moment. ???? Maybe the Becket feed went out countywide and once locally. Damn - gotta go back and check that out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
