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Hi all. I wa listening to SFD yesterday and heard a medic unit request the dispatcher that the Trauma Doc to go to "Medcom".

Is Medcom 155.34, a UHF Med Channel, or a TG on the system?

Thanks.

2 out of three. The Medcom's are 463.0 to 463.175 and for Seattle Fire I think that it is F 12 for the talkgroup

You both are a little right--but not completely.

When that Seattle medic unit asked dispatch to have the Trauma Doc use medcom, they are asking to talk to one of the attending Trauma MD's at Harborview Medical Center.

Dispatch then pages the doc via alphanumeric pager, and then the (doc) reports to the radio room in Harborviews ER and switches to either the "Medic One Doctor, TG 2000" or "Trauma Doc, TG 2032" Talkgroups.

Typically in Seattle though, the trauma or medic one doc uses TG 2000 (Medic One Doc) for medical communications--regardless of if it is a major medical or trauma patient.

Additionally, all of the medic units in King County have these TG's programmed into their radios, and sometimes they'll request the trauma or medic one doc be paged to either TG. Behind Seattle, South King County Medics probably use it the most, but still not that often. They use their mobile phones mostly--with a direct line to harborview (which also pages the respective doc)

Valleycom actually has the Trauma Doc and Medic One doc listed in CAD, so the dispatcher can simply page them via CAD alphanumeric paging.

OK, so if I have this correct, I don't need to program all of the UHF Med Channels or the HEAR VHF channel in my radios, just the Medic One and Trauma Doc talk groups. Other than cell phones, these TGs are all that SFD Medic Units use.

Am I right?

Thanks for all your help.

I'd recommend programming the med channels in (at least 463.000) since about 1/2 the time I hear medcom in use it's by Airlift NW and they are on UHF and you won't hear them on the TG.

When Bellevue, Redmond, or King County medics ask the trauma doc to use the radio, they'll be heard on TG 61040, not the SFD talkgroup.

I keep all 10 MEDCOMs programmed, and there is activity on many of these. The term MEDCOM is usually (but not always) used to describe one of the 10 UHF freqs. I think, but am not sure, that one of the MEDCOMs is linked to the TG's listed above.

The UHF system in Washington that uses (most of) MEDCOM channels 1-10 is called WHEERS. Over the last few years a number of sites have been constructed all over the state, and many of these were linked via the State microwave system (WSP). At one point I had a complete chart of the progress that had been achieved, but that is about 2 years stale now. I still hear consistent activity on the UHFs, but I pretty much quit listening to trunking a while ago, so I couldn't add anything there.

Can anyone confirm a UHF MEDCOM to King Co trunking TG link?
If it does link, I think it is MEDCOM 1- 463.000

For those who don't have 'em, UHF MEDCOMS are:

MEDCOM 1 - 463.000
MEDCOM 2 - 463.025
MEDCOM 3 - 463.050
MEDCOM 4 - 463.075
MEDCOM 5 - 463.100
MEDCOM 6 - 463.125
MEDCOM 7 - 463.150
MEDCOM 8 - 463.175
MEDCOM 9 - 462.950
MEDCOM 10 - 462.975

The 12.5 KHz channels that fall between these have been labeled with a channel number designation (in 2 digit numbers) and the 6.25 KHz channels that fall between THOSE have also been labeled with a channel number designation (in 3 digit numbers). I will try to dig those out and post, for trivia purposes if nothing else (I doubt they are being used at all right now, at least not in the PNW).

73,
Nick

Yes, I can confirm that TG 61840 is patched to 463.000. I've recently been reviewing all the TG's on the regional 800 Mhz system and on the 12th of this month it was active with a patch to Medcom-1.

I know it's an old post and I'm sorry for resurrecting it, but I'm getting traffic on 463.050 with a PL of 179.9 and I'm wondering if anyone knows if that's MedStar or Airlift NW? Traffic is always regarding taking somebody via air to some hospital on the West side of the state.

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It's part of the statewide WHEERS system which is linked.

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