Matt W thanks for your comments. This can be difficult to discuss via Email since it can be very convoluted.
To answer your questions - 1. What if more than 1 working fire? A. Then you need another fireground channel. 2. Wont units walk over each other? A. I dont think this is more of a problem than normal. 3. Fireground needs a clear channel. A. I agree. 4. Repeater versus simplex ops on fireground. A - Boston has been using repeaters on the fireground for years. So has Houston FD. So has most FDs that use trunked systems and use trunked channels for FG. I can see that my comments were very biased towards a suburban FD. For a large city or county FD, it might be necessary to have a separate dispatch channel for every battalion. But then you hit the problem of requiring people to be switching channels all day long as they move from battalion to battalion. Maybe I should list the problems that I presently see. A. too much channel hopping - people end up on the wrong channel B. dispatchers are slammed with too much action when a major incident initially breaks out C. too many channels go unused while some channels are overused -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
