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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Power failure... No commercial, No generator, and the UPS batteries are dead... Apparently Olympia area is dispatched out of the same facility, comms with Tacoma/Olympia troopers are being handled on adjacent area frequencies!!!!! Already have heard activity from these areas handled on the Bremerton area (154.665) and as a result phone lines into the Bremerton District office are jammed up and Mason County has resulted to using LERN to relay traffic... Fun Stuff, Stay tuned... Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | Jim [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Ain't winter fun! :roll: |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Add Seattle South (154.680) to the list... Now being dispatched from Bremerton, "priority" traffic only :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :party: :party: :party: :party: :party: |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Bremerton area dispatchers trying to verify if Seattle North being handled on Marysville air... No signals :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: Keep those scanners on! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Wonder if any of this has to do with the commercial power outage up on Capitol Peak knocking out some critical microwave... The DNR "new" site genset has not been taking up the load when this occurs... Verified due to operational anomalies associated with ham repeaters on that site, specifically the K5IN repeaters... Still doesn't explain the situation in Tacoma and Seattle though... Could the generator maintenance have been deferred (budget cuts) to the point of affecting operations in a "real" emergency :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: I KNOW there is a backup genset at Bremerton area... Probably why it is still on the air... Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | Jim [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
I was almost sure the 1st post here was by someone impersonating Eric (no emotocons). Glad to see the real Eric stepped up to set things straight :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D |
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| Author: | chpalmer [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Jim wrote: I was almost sure the 1st post here was by someone impersonating Eric (no emotocons). Glad to see the real Eric stepped up to set things straight :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :bowrofl: I was surprised how long to took for someone to post this... Guess the trailer-ed backup generators must have been busy elsewhere... |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Now hearing what passes for "normal" traffic on Seattle South, so things looking like they may be getting back to ""normal"" :roll: :roll: :roll: Will have to check Tacoma air... Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Quote: I was surprised how long to took for someone to post this... Guess the trailer-ed backup generators must have been busy elsewhere... _________________ Trailer-mounted backups for essential fixed facilities :shock: :? :shock: :oops: I was "monitoring the situation" and seeing that nobody else aware of the situation had bothered I figured that as long as I had commercial power and a functioning internet connection :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :D Will have to check the "noisemedia" to see if they "picked up" on any of this :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | chpalmer [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
kb7dqh wrote: Trailer-mounted backups for essential fixed facilities :shock: :? :shock: :oops: Eric KB7DQH Yep- Just in case I guess... in case the primary generator fails. |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Quote: Yep- Just in case I guess... in case the primary generator fails. There is always that... Over the years I have heard some really good stories about "back-up" gensets... and installed standby gensets... Knuckleheads shutting down the air-operated automatic transfer switch supply compressor to "save energy"... and the HF fixed station operator wondering why the transfer switch didn't operate correctly, and manually putting the 50KW transmitters back on line after manually operating the switch... ...Borrowing car batteries from neighborhood cars and paralleling them to the dead backup genset starting batteries with "frame wire" (this was at a telco central office that lost commercial power and was running at 100% traffic, with an hour of capacity left in the office battery bank) And on and on... Really no excuse for what happened to WSP... But their contingency plan, despite being confusing to the users as they have to my knowledge never had to do what they did, still worked to keep the troopers "on the air" :mrgreen: Eric KB7DQH |
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| Author: | the Outlaw [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
They shoulda all went home and let the knuckleheads playing Bumper Cars figure it out. |
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| Author: | icom1020 [ Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: WSP Tacoma off the air... |
Capitol Pk was dead for awhile. Thurston Public works went off the air, along with most of the ham, WSP, TV remote pickuo 450mhz, etc. Most fire districts were or still are doing their own non priority dispatching on ECC or other freqs due to traffic. Just about every other fire call is a down line. |
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