Boston area - FG channel usage

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Fire department fireground radio channel usage - Boston Massachusetts area

Boston - responding units go to a repeaterized dedicated fireground

channel with a dedicated dispatcher who can receive and transmit at

the same time

Medford - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Everett - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Revere - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Malden - go to a simplex fireground channel (153.83) - no direct contact with

dispatcher I think

Chelsea - go to FG simplex channel - IC might go to Tac channel

Arlington - supposed to go to Ch 2 - rarely do - dispatcher can

neither receive nor transmit on Ch 2

Brookline - ? go to simplex on output of primary repeater channel -

DISPATCHER CANNOT HEAR SIMPLEX CHANNEL (probably)

Newton - ? go to simplex on output of primary repeater channel -

DISPATCHER CANNOT HEAR SIMPLEX CHANNEL (probably)

Waltham - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Salem - stay on primary repeater channel ?

Peabody - go to output of primary repeater channel but dispatcher can

hear them and talk to them

Lowell - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Lawrence - stay on primary repeater channel - UNKNOWN IF DISPATCHER IS DUPLEX

Somerville - go to Ch 2 which is a dedicated fireground repeater

channel with a dedicated dispatcher however the dispatcher cannot

receive and transmit at the same time

Cambridge - go to one of two dedicated repeated firegound channels (Ch

14 + Ch 16) with a dedicated dispatcher, who can receive and transmit at the same

time (I think) - CH 13 + CH 15 CANNOT BE HEARD BY THE DISPATCHER - CH

13 + CH 15 ARE APPARENTLY THE OUTPUT CHANNELS OF CH 14 + CH 16

Worcester - go to a talkgroup with a dedicated dispatcher who possibly

can receive and transmit at the same time - unknown if any simplex is

used

Lynn - go to a dedicated simplex FG channel (153.80) - the dispatcher

can receive and transmit on this channel (BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME OF COURSE)

Nahant - go to 154.37 for fireground ops - dispatcher apparently talk to them - however, nearby Marblehead has a repeater on this channel

Concord - had a three alarm house fire - everyone used the primary channel (except the Lexington Engine used Ch 2 483.7125R when responding to a different call in Concord) - Feb 2010