Ambulance radio SNAFU!

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citabria
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Ambulance radio SNAFU!

Post by citabria » Fri Jun 01, 2018 8:35 pm

Taken from the "Australian Paramedics Association NSW"

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APA NSW members are advising us that new Portable radios were rolled out recently in South West Sydney and then were quickly withdrawn from operational service until further notice.

There was no training involved, just turn up and use the new piece of equipment.

Area's affected include the Camden, Cambelltown and Bankstown areas which are pretty significant areas of requirement..

For some unbeknownst reason apparently you have to upgrade your infrastructure to accommodate the new radios and someone must have forgotten about that.

Go figure!

Another situation where on the ground Paramedics are being left with inferior equipment through no fault of their own and out of the loop.

The safety and well being of Paramedics is the No. 1 priority and if the equipment is not fit for purpose, it puts us at risk.

We all know the issues, black spots, duress alarms not working, Control Center staff not knowing where Paramedics are, GPS issues, difficulty communicating with Control Center staff when out of the vehicle and mobile.

Isn't it about time that the safety and well-being of the States paramedics is put to the fore?

APA NSW has been consistently in discussions with NSWA management about the need to have infrastructure and equipment in place that works and is fit for purpose and it is an ongoing issue as the aforementioned issues attest.

This really needs to be rolled out much better.
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Re: Ambulance radio SNAFU!

Post by cartman » Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:33 pm

I turned on the SW Sydney ambulance talkgroup today and was stunned to see a lot of new radio ids - it looks like most vehicle radios have been replaced but they are still using the old portables. (see above). Check my GRN logs and seems it is widespread across the metro area. Lots of fun now compiling new lists across the Sydney ambo talkgroups.
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Re: Ambulance radio SNAFU!

Post by Wonky » Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:32 pm

Sitting at Sydney airport yesterday (friday 1/6) the Ambo radio techs were using TG 10337 testing motorola and tait portables, testing in and out of vehicles, giving RSSI's, mentioning certain geographical names (didn't know any of them) on site 144 Kirrawee

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Re: Ambulance radio SNAFU!

Post by system_tech » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:17 pm

Sounds like the Tait compatibility wasn't tested well before issue. Reminds me of the EF Johnson radios brought in by Benelec for analogue GRN way back. They sort of worked. Apparently many settings didn't translate well from EF Johnson world to Motorola world.

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Re: Ambulance radio SNAFU!

Post by rustynswrail » Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:27 pm

Sounds like Tier III DMR and Motorola Tier III DMR. The same but different.

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