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Continue with development and implementation of Washington Hospital and Emergency EMS Radio System (WHEERS) for emergency radio communication between all hospitals and state emergency management.


http://www.doh.wa.gov/phepr/FedApps2003 ... _E.htm#uhf

Any idea if this is UHF med net channels? Did a FCC search and DOH is licensed for repeaters in certain parts of the state on those freqs.

State Patrol annual report listed that they installed it to their microwave network
http://www.wa.gov/wsp/reports/quarter/qtr103.pdf

Yes, WHEERS uses repeaters on the UHF MEDNET channels for voice access into/out of system. WSP microwave provides backbone to link sites together.

I find quite a bit of activity on the MEDNET channels these days.

73,
Nick
N7QOR

Thanks, I'll check for the tell tale UHF antenna on the vehicles when I'm out and about

This system is news to me and I work in the system. I recently worked in a local ER and I know that in addition to the old HEAR system (which still works great by the way) we had two 800mhz radios on the desk also. They seemed to be on a King County system as I scrolled through the "channels". They had all the local hospitals and various dispatch centers listed. We never used them.

I now work for a local ambulance company doing critical care transports. Our communications system leaves a lot to be desired, to say the least. Our north end operation vacated their VHF channel (which worked) and now have a 220mhz system that doesn't work at all. Very lousy reception anywhere. I think it is trunked but I'm not sure. We do almost all of our coms by NEXTEL. Not a good way to do business!
All of our patient reports to the hospitals are done by cell phone.

My understanding of what is planned -- is that it will use and connect all EMS and Hospitals togather using VHF Low band, High Band, UHF and even the State HF (Shortwave) radio channels. The State already has several licenses for operations on the UHF "Med-Com" channels. Any smart thinking radio person knows that in a real emergency -- you will need to be able to communicate on all bands.

Just put up a GWEN transmitter at each hospital. That should solve the problem !