https://www.wcvb.com/article/communication-breakdown-mass-still-struggling-with-public-safety-radio-plan/29896430
1. I think the major problem now is that 'too many radios have TOO MANY channels' - hard to believe - but true - but thats more of a 'pithy slogan' than a 'statement of fact' - maybe its the old "more is better" fallacy 2. just the facts - half the FDs in the area use VHF highband (150 to 174 mhz) - half use UHF (450 to 480 Mhz) - there are only a handful of fire mutual aid channels - no one ever practices using the interops channels - and there are only 5 vhf IO channels and 4 UHF IO channels - there are no dedicated travel channels - there are no dedicated air to ground channels - there are no dedicated commander channels - so even if every radio has 120 or 480 channels, there is no simple straightforward plan for using them 3. lets look at the event - 60 building fires in 3 towns - you would need 3 dispatch channels plus 60 fireground channels plus maybe 10 commander channels plus maybe 5 travel channels to handle the comms 4. you probably think that 60 fireground channels are not available - Boston FD uses about 16 freqs - Boston Police uses approx 40 freqs - Boston EMS uses approx 10 freqs - Boston is 30 miles from Lawrence - if all of the Boston freqs had been used in simplex mode with appropriate PLs you would have 66 freqs - and that just reusing the Boston freqs intelligently -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKYw12xheB%2BfqCcrUhsRbhD_LHaxZvhBDgNJCrKNdyfFvw%40mail.gmail.com.
