Reportedly 3,000 cops will be on duty for the Boston Marathon. Unknown how many medical or fire people will be on duty.
Lets consider the role of public safety radios at the Marathon. The most important roles for the radios will be - receiving updates on impending threats - spreading the alarm if an situation happens - deploying forces to deal with the event - directing forces to the most advantageous locations - clearing traffic to help with response - tracking down any perps or preventing further events. For example - plane is approaching - plane has crashed - 20 ambulances are needed at Main St; have them respond via South St - evaluate for further threats - clear traffic to allow ambulances to go to hospitals. Question - what healthy radio channels are available to support the Marathon? (all channels are repeaters unless otherwise indicated) Hopkinton - FD 460.3125 & 460.0875 - PD 471.6125 Ashland - FD 484.3875 - PD 483.1125 & ? 470.10 Framingham - FD 483.7625 & ? 483.5875M - PD 471.7625 - maybe DPW freqs also - maybe Fram State College PD channel also Natick - FD 483.625 & 472.80 - PD 472.7375 - maybe DPW freq also - maybe 2nd PD freq also Wellesley - FD 482.575 - PD 471.4875 - Wellesley College PD 463.60 - Babson College PD 462.075 - maybe college mtnce channels Newton - FD 483.4625 & 482.9625 - PD 470.8375 & 470.3875 - Boston College PD 472.1375 & 471.8125 - maybe Newton Hospital Security channels also - maybe BC mtnce channels also Brookline - FD 483.4375 - PD 471.0125 & 471.0625 - maybe BU PD channel also 472.1625 - maybe Longwood Hospital area channels also Boston - FD - 483.1625 483.1875 483.2125 483.2375 - also Brighton repeater Boston - PD - 460.50 Back Bay & Brighton - 460.35 citywide - maybe 460.30 citywide chat - maybe 460.125 citywide warrants - maybe 460.075 Ch9 - maybe 460.25 special ops - maybe 460.05 Ch12 - maybe 460.20 - maybe 460.475 command encrypted - maybe 460.425 radio shop digital - maybe 460.025 radio shop clear Boston - EMS - 462.975 main - 462.95 tac - 460.55 digital tac - 460.525 tac - 453.775 tac Boston - interops 460.275 - shared by all agencies Boston - CityWide 3 - unknown freq Boston FD + Boston EMS have a couple of short range channels also - unknown if BPD has any Boston - St John Seminary in Brighton might have a UHF repeater - BC and BU might have UHF channels that are available - Longwood Hospital area might have spare UHF repeater channels - Back Bay area might have some business security repeaters on UHF that could be used Boston - BUPD 472.1625 - NorthEastern PD 464.975 & ? 464.125 BAPERN 3 - 470.7875 - wide area BAPERN 4 - 470.5625 - wide area BAPERN Central - 470.9875 - wide area BAPERN West - 470.7375 NEMLEC - maybe 482.3875BM & 485.3875M D14 Fire - maybe 453.3875 & 471.05 D13 Fire - maybe White + Red + North + Central + Orange (temp) + Silver (temp) Homeland Security - maybe 471.6875 and 470.075 Utacs - maybe Brookline and Wellesley are both in Norfolk County but it is unlikely that the Norfolk County FG channels cover those towns As you can see, 4 of the communities just have 1 police channel. 4 of the communities just have 1 fire channel. There are no spare channels for police unless they use BAP 3, 4, C, or W. (That would mean that all police dispatcher to police dispatcher traffic would have to go via telephone) I could imagine that BPD would put the finish line area on 460.30 - the Back Bay on 460.35 - Brighton on 460.05 - leaving 460.35 clear for an emergency - plus a couple of other somewhat clear channels -- 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/d/optout.
