KC2OBW

You can smell the smoke from City 911.

O wow, I bet your going nuts with all these smoke investigation calls, which are probably all related to the grey st fire.

city just went out for a 2ED house fire at 9 garfield

Caller was calling from 9 garfield they are still investigating the 2nd house fire.

Sounds like city has another Structure Fire now on Montgomery

Sounds like a good intent, deff a busy night for the city.

BUSY night in City 911 for sure!

You can handle it Dan. lol

Well 17 grey st went up again so maybe you can take more pics

PayPal for me too

Wouldn't say really new firmware is 5.11.05

Does the distortion happen at all levels of volume? Also do you get this distortion over a scanner or another radio at all? It could be possible that it is the speaker on the radio itself. Do you get distortion with regular voice?

If it was a wrong PL code then you would not hear any transmissions. If you get the distortion with other radios then its the volume of the tone generator or problem with it. It could also be the transmit power from the tower itself. It could be several things.

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Voice is not distorted, My HT1000 and My MT1000 sound just fine, volume level does not change a thing,it used to be worse, I changed some of the settings under advanced in the CPS for that personality. I have noticed that the receiver on my 1250 is just a tad bit stronger then the others so maybe I am picking up Illinois and Clove Tower,

EFFP411 stated that he had heard some distortion on his Vertex Portable, Scanner, and Pager.

Ok Mobile life was just toned out, and the tone that county plays after that wasn't distorted this time.

Maybe I'm thinking too simple, but is it possible your speaker is starting to go?

You know I thought that too, but it also does it with the speaker mic attached too, and its only certain tones that sound distorted, unless the counties simulcast is doing it, at work it does not happen so much. I have no issues with Poughkeepsie Fire tones sounding distorted.

Could be a "channel guard" problem.Have a radio tech check it out for you.

I'll take out the PL tone and see if that changes anything.

I haven't used my HT1250 LS+ on Dispatch since the Simulcast, transition, I will have to see if I run into any of the same issues with mine!

Thank you, its only certain tones, for ex. one of Arlington's comes across distorted, and that tone county puts out after hitting a districts tones, every thing sounds fine on my other radios, I just don't understand it.

I'm not sure where this would go so I put it here. I have a HT1250 and I have noticed certain alerting tones come across distorted at times on Dutchess 911 dispatch, I was wondering if any one else had this same problem and what they did to fix it.

Over at New Paltz the newer rig 621 has nothing but LED warning lights on it, and as for the led's washing out, town of pok police have nothing but led bar lights and some cars have either rear deck strobe lights but the newer cars have led rear deck lights, and strobes in tail,reverse, and turn signals, and two halogen flashers in the grille, i have noticed in direct sun light the led bars are not really that visible.

Sadly, I have found that no matter HOW MANY lights and sirens you mount on the front of apparatus, people are ignorant, or just plain don't care these days!

That, AND there comes a point when it becomes overkill, just IMHO.

You are right,every one these days thinks what ever they are doing is much more important then a Fire engine or a Ambulance going code down the road trying to help people. Regardless of what color light, Red,blue,green I pull to the right, the way I look at it is hey they could be going to my house, or going to a loved ones or a friends home/business.

Seriously who cares? If some one has illegal lights on there car they'll get caught sooner or later, its their car they make the payments and pay the insurance let them do what they please if they are doing something wrong then o well its really not my problem, they'll get caught and have to pay the fines.

Nice looking rigs, love the chevrons on the back of the tanker.

Yeah Im hearing some weird stuff on the Dispatch channel..453.900, sounds like there are other repeaters mixing in, hearing this on two of my radios my HT1250 and HT1000, just wondering if any one else has been hearing this.

You guys think that is bad, what about some one who has a mini light bar with amber to the front and red to the rear, along with two other dash lights that are both amber, and also two red/clear rear deck strobes? I know some one who has that setup, and im surprised he hasn't had his stones busted.

Dutchess 911 has a whole room for RACES, there are 4 kenwood dualband radios, a HF radio, and a 220 radio in there, its a really nice set up. I think they might even be putting some ham stuff in there comm vehicle (at least a HF radio, which is sitting in the radio room)

I swear if one more person says shenanigans...I'll pistol whip em'!

a couple of those counts will probably get pleaded down.

Hey Farva, what's that place you like to eat at with the mozzarella sticks and all the goofy s*** on the walls?

I take it he is not playing with a full deck of cards.

The Volunteer Fire Police Association of Dutchess County plans on putting on a ham radio seminar/course which will be open to all emergency services personnel. They are going to try to set it up within the next couple of months. The goal is to get everyone licensed to at least a Technican Grade License.

If your interested PM me and I'll put your name in the data base to personally send you information.

Thats a pretty cool idea, hey maybe some of the local repeaters might become active again.

Yup me

Scott

KC2OBW

Lol, took the words RIGHT outta my mouth!

It is what it is lol

You have that portable radio shack in there so it counts.

thats at work, every one is probably reading this and is "wow that scott guy is really a buff"

Don't forget about the four mobiles and scanners in his car.

lol if your gonna poke fun at me at least get it right, 3 radios in my car, no scanners.