Re: Talk Group Question!

Posted by aswed on December 30, 2000 at 17:01:41:

In Reply to: Re: Talk Group Question! posted by Sean on December 28, 2000 at 11:06:28:

Sean
you say "You will find KCSO on Snoq Pass all of the time."
well i have been to the top of snoq. pass and have not hade my scanner lock on to a cntl ch. what are thay up at the pass and who can i hear up at the top.
and as for the site on HW-2 the last towen just before the pass why do i get the Transit Police and the patch to the Bus Supervisors for Metro. only on that site.
can we get the proper freqs for the bus tunnel nort and south sites
rattelsnake lake and snoqualami summit?
: Pretty close description of how the system works. The reason that Fire-1 may appear on EPSCA or Seattle is that we request it to be there. This is done so that users who may be on FIRE-2 on the EPSCA system, may have their scan function properly. Imagine if your the B/C or HMFIC of an incident. Your radio is aff'ed with EPSCA. You are working a large fire on FIRE-2. ValleyCom then taps out the rest of your small department for a big MVA. Wouldn't it be nice to know where the rest of your troops are ? We do the same thing on several of the small pass sites for KCSO also. You will find KCSO on Snoq Pass all of the time. We do it for a couple of reasons. It allows the scan to function properly. If the deputies radio is on MARS or LERN, they would miss a call from dispatch. It will also help us excercise the base stations at the site. We also sometimes do it to "dump audio". A console cannot make a call on a talkgroup unless a radio is aff'ed with that talkgroup somewhere. If a console patch is in place between a convetional and a trunked asset, such as MARS or LERN, and a conventional call is made, the console will produce a loud "BONK" to indicate that the call is not valid. So if I request that the talkgroup be aff'ed at all the big sites, the mobiles can here it in their scan mode. It also takes the bonk out of a very tempermental dispatchers ear. We do this with the Transit Police and the patch to the Bus Supervisors for Metro. Hope this helps. Questions ?

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: Sean : you say "You will find KCSO on Snoq Pass all of the time." : well i have been to the top of snoq. pass and have not hade my scanner lock on to a cntl ch. what are thay up at the pass and who can i hear up at the top. : and as for the site on HW-2 the last towen just before the pass why do i get the Transit Police and the patch to the Bus Supervisors for Metro. only on that site. : can we get the proper freqs for the bus tunnel nort and south sites : rattelsnake lake and snoqualami summit? : : Pretty close description of how the system works. The reason that Fire-1 may appear on EPSCA or Seattle is that we request it to be there. This is done so that users who may be on FIRE-2 on the EPSCA system, may have their scan function properly. Imagine if your the B/C or HMFIC of an incident. Your radio is aff'ed with EPSCA. You are working a large fire on FIRE-2. ValleyCom then taps out the rest of your small department for a big MVA. Wouldn't it be nice to know where the rest of your troops are ? We do the same thing on several of the small pass sites for KCSO also. You will find KCSO on Snoq Pass all of the time. We do it for a couple of reasons. It allows the scan to function properly. If the deputies radio is on MARS or LERN, they would miss a call from dispatch. It will also help us excercise the base stations at the site. We also sometimes do it to "dump audio". A console cannot make a call on a talkgroup unless a radio is aff'ed with that talkgroup somewhere. If a console patch is in place between a convetional and a trunked asset, such as MARS or LERN, and a conventional call is made, the console will produce a loud "BONK" to indicate that the call is not valid. So if I request that the talkgroup be aff'ed at all the big sites, the mobiles can here it in their scan mode. It also takes the bonk out of a very tempermental dispatchers ear. We do this with the Transit Police and the patch to the Bus Supervisors for Metro. Hope this helps. Questions ?

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