FW: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: Radios and Coms in TV and Movies

2008-12-22 Thread Jim Cicirello
Doug,

Did these radios relay thru the squad, towers, or were they direct to the
ER?  Always wondered.

 

73 JIM  KA2AJH  Wellsville, NY

 

 

 

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Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: Radios and Coms in TV and Movies

 

I do remember a little about the radios they used on the series. The Orange
Box duplex paramedic radio was the original Motorola adventure into the
medical telemetry function. SNIP..

 

Doug
Seattle now
Florida back then
EMT for 29 years

 



Re: FW: [Repeater-Builder] Re: OT: Radios and Coms in TV and Movies

2008-12-22 Thread Mike Pugh
Jim Cicirello wrote:

 Doug,

 Did these radios relay thru the squad, towers, or were they direct to 
 the ER?  Always wondered.

  

Reminds me of a story an old Mot tech told me one time. They had just 
finished putting the 911 system in in Boyd County Kentucky. The hospital 
had the portable telemetry stuff, and was rolling it out for all to see. 
They hooked up the hospital CEO to the EKG, and flipped the switch. It 
all fired up and the scope on the receiver equipment started to work. 
All of a sudden, the scope flat lined! It scared the CEO nearly to 
death, and all of the Motorola execs present held their breath. My buddy 
spoke up and said, Wait, I know what it is!, and ran out  the door. 
The telemetry unit transmitted to the ambulance, and was cross band 
repeated through a vehicular repeater to a UHF repeater back to the 
hospital. My buddy jumped in the ambulance, yanked the time out timer, 
and the whole system came back to life! Now, over the years, this story 
may have very well grown in intensity , and/or truth, but that is the 
way the story was relayed to me years ago..

To answer your question, It depends on the backbone system the EKG was a 
part of, but from my knowledge, it was repeated through the ambulance.. 
73 Mike KA4MKG