FD radio info at RRDB typically - a FD either uses pagers or they dont
if they do use pagers - they might be digital or voice if they do use pagers - the pagers might be on the main channel or on a separate paging channel often FD paging is done on a countywide channel RRDB seems to show "fire dispatch" for channels that have paging RRDB seems to show 'operations' for any channel that has dispatcher to field unit 2 way voice comms the simplest radio system might be 1 channel simplex with paging and response and FG 2nd simplest system might be ch 1 for paging and response - with Ch 2 as FG - maybe short range - maybe no base station the third simplest system might be - ch 1 countywide paging and response - then ch 2 would be the local fd comm channel (which would have response and FG comms) there are a huge number of listings for FDs in the RRDB that are labeled as 'operations' which seems to indicate paging plus response plus (some) FG perhaps the underlying theme is - FDs try to separate the paging channel from the FG channel usually - they dont want paging signals to drown out FG messages RRDB seems to use the term 'dispatch' to indicate the paging channel - if a FD uses pagers - the RRDB also seems to use the term 'dispatch' to differentiate a dispatch channel from a FG channel or a response channel suggestion - for the typical RRDB user - they dont care how this info is listed - they are primarily interested in police channels - anyone who is interested in FDs will just load in all the FD channels that they can find maybe some nationwide nomenclature can be developed - "dispatch' channels are used to talk to a dispatcher - 'paging' channels are used for one way paging channels - 'response' and 'command' and 'fireground' and 'tactical' channels can be other channel names California FDs use the terms - 'command' and 'tactical' - maybe 'primary' also - 'command' channels are used by units approaching an incident to talk to the IC - and are also used for IC to boss and IC to dispatcher comms - 'tactical' channels are used for field unit to field unit comms (they can be either repeaterized channels or non repeaterized 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZY1LjPsqHcf3RYJRGgsUQYrD%3DrUWfk4rybCTVPHMyJMA%40mail.gmail.com.
