Norfolk County MA fire radio ops Norfolk County Massachusetts is protected by approx 30 town or city fire departments. Many of them operate ambulances also. Each community has its own dispatcher and fire radio channel (all are on UHF repeater systems - Quincy has 3 channels - the rest have 1 channel each).
There are 3 additional UHF repeater channels controlled by a "county" dispatcher. One of the channels is dedicated for "dispatcher to dispatcher" comms. These repeater channels have pretty good countywide coverage apparently. Presently, whenever a box alarm is transmitted, the local FD will switch all of its units to one of the "county" channels. Any covering / moveup / fillin units will use the local FD main channel. An alternative radio procedure could be - have all covering units use a "county" channel - have all the units of the requesting FD stay on their normal local channel. Many of the normal mutual aid radio messages can be accomplished by cellphones or landline phones - or even a dedicated communications path on microwave or Internet or some other comms mode. -- 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.
