IzzyEng4

Go classis and find a New Haven RR engine! Great layout!

I love your humor Mike!

Awesome!!! $19.95 for brass balls!

Other reports said he owned the apartment which included the entire 4th floor.

I highly doubt that ladder 1 is a station 4 since they can barley fit an engine in the Southport station.

Sirius is the way to go and XM isn't bad either. I can't wait for the merger though, service is only going to get better. More HOWARD & BTLS!

Well if i do listen o the station backwards I will get everything back now right DOC? Seriously though, XRK was by far the best rock station to listen to in the NYC area along with WCCC in Hartford, CT. I'm just sick of the constant format changes a majority of these radio stations go through in a matter of a few years. As for going to Country, heck that is the most popular music style in the nation but the problem I have with its is that the owners are just trying to make easy money and once again they'll be firing good DJs and hiring others to fill their spots. Its just an ugly business lately. I just hope that if iot is true they area going to country the station succeeds and doesn't turn out to be a station that plays a "click tape" rotation and ruins it for the country fans out there. As for O & A, I hope they get buried in one of those mysterious "holes" that "pop up" in the desert. (never liked them and just my opinion)

My company purchased our 1962 ALF 900 series back in the late 80s from our city and we just acquired our 1981 ALF Century. In NY I know of a few Century 2000s around, Greenwich, CT, Vigilant FC in Great Neck, New Windsor in Orange County, Long Hill in Trumbull CT has FDNYs old Century Maxi Water unit.

A classic example of negligence. Just remember what you say on a 911 is recorded. Never judge. This is just punishment for blaitent negligence.

UGGGG!GGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Date: 1 / 18 / 08 Time: 15:00 Location: 130 Coram Lane, Milford, CT - Great River Gold Club Frequency: 154.3400 Units Operating: E-1, E-7, E-4, E-6, E-3, T-1, R-1, C-4, C-3, C-8 Description Of Incident: Working fire in the cart barn w/ additional calls for smoke in the basement of the club house. Engine 7 on scene reporting smoke showing. Car 4 - command ordering AMR ambulance on Pri-2 for fire standby. E-1 reporting that fire contained to one of the carts, sprinkler activated and kept fire contained to the cart. Ventilation needed. Writer: IzzyEng4

What, no "East Port Chester" units?????? (AKA Byram, Greenwich for those who don't know what I'm talking about)

This was pushed through back in 2005 / 2006 and we encountered it when my company's new engine was being built, which the standard was adopted and required in November 2005 (if memory serves me correctly when it was adopted). What happened was the fire department in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia was responding to a fire, one of their engine's crosslays came out of its bed while taking a corner and the nozzle of the pre-connect hit the head of a child killing her (she was on the sidewalk) in early 2005. There was an immediate response to all this and by the end of the year the standard for all hose beds and cross / speed lays must be secured with netting and covered either with a hard or removable cover.

CT still has the EMT-I level and it is used alot in my area of the state. However, a few yeas ago they were looking to get rid of the EMT-I level and decided against it. Unfortunately, the New Haven Sponsor Hospital Program (Yale and St. Rapheal's) eliminated EMT-Is from their protocols thus only recognizeing MRTs, EMT-B and Paramedics. The rest of the sponsor hospital regions kept the EMT-I levels still. As of right now I am not certain what teh state is planing now.

Always expect the unexpected.

Really??? That surprises me. I though maybe it would only be between Ferrara and Seagrave. Would be intersting to see though. thanks for the updated info.

For some reason I don't think ALF would have bid anyway reguardless if they were not in financial trouble.

Looks like ALF is falling into another comapny that got too big for their britches during an ownership change. Sad to see.

Just remember who invented the first trunked system.................. Good ol' Ma Bell! AT&T started trunking with our phone system way bak when "Betsy" was pluging in the old jack into the board. Then we got smart and Motorola & EF Johnson (to name a few) created it for radios systems mainly used for buisnesses. Then came the town council who put every service on it and it took public saftey to teach and prove to everyone how to overload it! As you can tell I'm not a trucked public saftey radio fan.

Good Luck Bethel with the "new" and "old friend"!!!

Wheel, I am with you on this one. Ever since trunking came out for public safety, these things need a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon to figure out. Though I love the BCT396 and BCT996 that i purchase, if it wasn't for computer programs to load up the frequencies I wanted, I would be lost. They need to simplify it. Price too is a constant complaint but as someone who is getting more and more into amateur radio, these area getting into the line of "communications receivers" more so that the old simple "scanner". The reception quality and associated features like CTCSS, PL and DPL and also digital translation have made scanners a lot better that the old crystals and early transistor style radios. But unfortunately with trunking, scanners have become more complicated from the old "banks" to this new thing "folder" with multiple banks. What are they going to come up with next? Though I can set up the newer scanners to the way I want the simplicity of it is gone. When is too much, too much?

LA's new heavy rescue maybe??

Not a bad idea. As long as it is in a place were the backer can still be seen then I guess its OK. It reminds me of the old fire trucks with rear steps having the buzzer buttons on the rear. (1 = Stop, 2 = Go)

Congrats Jack! Looking forward to working with you.

My grandmother still has my grandfather's old Regency one channel crystal receiver. For the longest time I remember the old Plextrons when I was a kid. My first scanner was a Bearcat BC560XLT 16 channel scanner. I though that was the best until the Radio Shack Pro-2000 with 800 Mhz came out, too bad I couldn't convince my parents to by me that $300 scanner for my birthday, always wanted that one.