Re: Boston Marathon - public safety radio ops
8,000 will be on duty in 2018 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Peter S wrote: > Reportedly 3,000 cops will be on duty for the Boston Marathon. Unknown > how many medical or fire people will be on duty. > > -- 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 massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to massfire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Boston Marathon - public safety radio ops
Perhaps this radio scheme could be used for police agencies for the Marathon. PDs with just 1 channel will do marathon ops and local ops on their 1 local channel. For a secondary channel they can use BAP W or BAP C. PDs with 2 channels can do local ops on the main channel, and do Marathon ops on their 2ndary channel. For additional channels then can use local channels or BAP C or BAP W. All Marathon related dispatcher to dispatcher messages should go via the State LOPS channels. Police helicopters will be a primary resource. It might be smart to dedicate either BAP 4 or BAP W or BAP C to helicopter ops. BAP 3 could be used to patch in any message that needs to reach all police officers on duty. (Nah - wont work). - Have to go back to the very basics here. 1. Do BPD radios have the BAPERN channels? Can BPD radios scan BAP 3 and a local channel? 2. Do any suburban PDs have Boston PD channels in their radios? 3. Is there any point in using the scan feature in any radio? Is it worth the effort? Since BAP 4 is usually patched to BPD 1 for these events, my guess is that the answer to Questions 1 and 2 is "no". -- Needed radio paths Another way to look at this is to ask the question - "What radio paths are needed for the Marathon?" Answers - Local Net - for messages amongst local police and local dispatcher Regional Net - for messages amongst local police and nearby agencies Wide Range Net - for messages to every unit assigned to the Marathon Eastern Mass Net - for messages to every on duty unit in eastern Mass (If 470.7875 can be the Eastern Mass Net, then BAP C and BAP W can be regional nets. This just leaves a gap for the Wide Range Net. How can the Wide Range Net be provided? Maybe by patching all local channels to all BAP channels on demand. Yeah - that could work if they are wired up for that. And they might be). -- 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 massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to massfire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Boston Marathon - public safety radio ops
State Police might have 1 to 4 helos working. Media might have several helos working also. Since there are no dedicated 'air to ground' channels for public safety in the Boston area, it will be necessary for the helos to find the most appropriate local channel to use when involved in a emergency situation. Or perhaps the MSP can patch a 800 Mhz TalkGroup to a local UHF channel somehow. They seem to have this capability although it is extremely rarely used. -- 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 massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to massfire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
