9COM Fire Departments: You may have noticed that fire tones on VHF have a new, brief […]
In mid-December, the BCSO dispatch center (9COM) will be taking over dispatching responsibilities for the City of Hamilton (2COM). We’d like to give an overview of various items that will affect fire departments, and answer some common questions.
The two week narrowbanding transition period for users of the county-wide VHF fire paging channel began yesterday morning. The new narrowband fire channel (155.5500 MHz) is now being actively used for alerting by four of our dispatch centers.
Two years ago this month, law enforcement agencies dispatched by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office switched […]
Due to narrowbanding, some Butler County fire agencies are looking to organize a group purchase of the Minitor V fire pager. Previous versions of this Motorola product (Minitor I through IV) are not narrowband capable and will need to be replaced before 2013.
Narrowbanding is an FCC-mandated change that applies to all VHF High Band (150-174 MHz) and UHF (420 to 512 MHz) systems.