Radio ops for Boston Harbor Festival - July 4 approx Just thinking out loud while looking at the map
The tricky part will probably be in communication amongst the safety boats. Land units go thru this drill every July 4th pretty much. The difference this year will be - military ships in the Harbor plus Tall Ships plus Blue Angels. I assume that the fireworks and Esplanade concert will occur as usual on July 4 - which happens to be a Wednesday this year. Maybe the DOD or USCG can set up Nets for the patrol ships. You would have to give a portable radio to every police, fire, EMS, harbormaster, DOD, USCG, boat in the Harbor. Since their might be 30 boats - then you probably need 2 Harbor Nets. And if each Harbor net was repeaterized, that might be useful, although coverage from the Boston USCG station looks like it is line of sight to all Harbor areas except maybe up at Rutherford Ave. The major jurisdictions at play here are - Boston + Cambridge + Logan Airport + maybe Chelsea + maybe Everett + maybe Somerville + maybe Winthrop. Plus the feds and State Police. Plus railroads and MBTA and DOD and maybe even some embassys. Can you imagine what will happen if a Amtrak police officer on the Dorchester Street bridge wants to talk to the head of security on a foreign Tall Ship? Technically it is a simple matter. Patch the 161.295 repeater to whatever freq the Tall Ship is using for security. In reality - aint never gonna happen. Can you imagine if anyone wants to talk into a T tunnel? How many working radio channels are there in the Blue Line under Boston Harbor? Do T PD radios even work in there? Maybe there are 3 working channels in the Blue Line Tunnel - Blue Line Ops + T PD + BFD Ch 4. If we want to reserve those 3 channels for any Blue Line incidents, then we have lost all fire comms capabilitys in all other T subway lines AFAIK. And we lost all T PD comms in all other subway tunnels. Are we screwed yet? Oh yeah - big time! (Unless BFD and T PD have the ability to run multi different incidents in multi different subway stations at the same time. Again - technically it seems to be simple. But I dont think it will ever happen. I have never heard it happen. I have never heard the capability being attempted nor tested.) Has anyone ever heard BFD or BPD testing radios in the terminal blds at Logan Airport? I have not. Boston EMS radios might work in there - they are always running calls over there. Are we having fun yet? PS - if you patch 460.35 + 470.7875 and LOPS3 together - you have now tied up 3 channels every time you want to send 1 message. You have cut your message handling capabilitys by 66%. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire?hl=en.
