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Marysville fire is now on the trunk system system the talk group is 720
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Dave...

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I figured they would be using there own talkgroups of Dispatch 4(9872), Tac 7(9904), and Tac 8(9936) :? .

Maybe some of the SERS folks can illuminate this issue with Marysville Fire and Everett Fire. The TG list shows TG 496 as West fire dispatch, which would include Everett, etc. Yet Everett FD is being dispatched out on TG 592, which is listed as Fire West TAC 1. As Dave points out, it would seem that Marysville FD would be using TG 560, which is listed as Fire North Dispatch but instead they are using the first of TG's listed as Fire North TAC

Are 496 and 560 then going to be used for another purpose?

Speculation on my part...

The West Dispatch, East Dispatch, and North Dispatch talkgroups are going to be "strictly" dispatch only TG's....there should not be any chit chat or fire operations on those talkgroups. The idea is that incidents will be dispatched on the Dispatch TG's, but the actual response will be assigned to a TAC TG. In this plan, the conventional frequencies will not be patched to any of the dispatch TG's, because they do not want to tie up the dispatch channels with field response traffic.


Keeping in line with that philosophy, I can only *assume* that the 800mhz Tac channels were patched to the 154.385 and 154.430 frequencies so that outside agencies responding with either Everett Fire or Marysville Fire will be able to talk directly to those agencies - without tying up their Dispatch TG's.


Just like with SNOCOM now. I'm listening to TG 5424/TAC-21. It appears to be fully patched to 154.010. So, when SNOCOM begins to dispatch units on 800mhz, they will receive the dispatch on 800mhz (Disp 5)- and, the response will be on TAC-21/154.010. In that way, units from outside SNOCOM who respond to assist (or, SNOCOM units that haven't been completely converted over to 800mhz yet) will still be able to operate together - and not tie up the DP Talkgroup.

Clear as mud?

Brad.

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I have noticed that they are "toning" out and dispatching SNOCOM units on Fire Tac-21. The units are responding on the same talkgroup. So what I'm wondering is why the dispatch talkgroup is not being used. I figured they would be dispatched on Disp-5 and the units are then told to switch to or respond on Tac-21 or Tac-22 after the initial call is dispatched.

Example: SNOCOM: "Engine 15, Aid 15 aid response 19600 44th Ave W respond on Tac-21."

The SNOCOM fire patches just came online in the last few days. That's the preliminary step before the 800mhz radios are put into the field. You will probably hear everything on TAC-21/154.010 for several weeks. When all the SNOCOM fire agencies have 800 radios in the field (portable and mobiles), then you will probably start hearing the dispatches on DISP-5, and the resonses on the TAC TG's.

Brad.

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