Just thinking outloud Boston has a major concert on the Esplanade on July 4th with fireworks. The Esplanade is a park on the bank of the Charles River which is under the jurisdiction of the State Police. Since 400K or 1M attend the concert, multi public safety agencies cooperate to provide safety services. Many people attend the concert on the Cambridge side of the river also.
Police services - MSP + MIT + CPD + BPD + T + BU + Natl Guard + MGH Ambulance services - BEMS + CFD + Pro Amb Rescue services - USCG in river + BFD in river + police boats + CFD boat Multi specialty units are probably involved also - SWAT - EOD - WMD - etc Since all the agencies have seperate radio systems in various radio bands, it is impossible to assign one channel as "the" interops channel. Typically "patches" are used to link 1 or more channels across the various bands. Possible "patched" channels could be - 158.91 - 167.4375 - 460.275 - Utacs - Vtacs - Itacs - Cambridge TGs - State TGs - BAP 2 - BAP 3 - BAP 4. Typically 460.35 gets patched to : one Itac channel + 1 SOPS TG on the State TRS Lets think about this - which channels should get patched together? And why? Maybe they just need 1 patched command net. One radio from each agency. VHF + UHF + 800. 158.91 + 460.275 + 851.5125. This would serve as a backup to the innate interops available at the Concert Command Center in the Beacon St highrise bld overlooking the concert. (The only problem I see here - users of the Cambridge TRS and the State TRS might not be able to scan the command net). Perhaps they are trying to provide more than just 1 patched command net. Perhaps they are trying to provide the ability for every radio at the event to be able to hear the command net. ??????? -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
