The ELMR System: Efficient Government Radio Communication

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2. THEELMRSYSTEMOperatesonthe380mhz. GovernmentRadioBand. ThisSystemisinusethroughouttheRegion ItusesDigitalTechnologyinsteadofAnalog Wehave4Repeatersites,Balboa,Donnelly Hall(32ndst),PointLoma,andMt.Otay.

3. SINGLEDISPATCHCHANNEL Adminchannelfor NON PriorityCommunications CommandChannelsfor Incidents TACChannelsforIncidents 2-TrainingChannels areavailable Fire ConventionalChannel on Zone“A” Airfield CRASHChannels DedicatedFireEmergencyChannel NorthIslandBeachLifeguards Region Wide programing

4. SimplifyCommunications IncreaseEfficiency. KeepEmergencyOperationalTrafficandDailytrafficseparate. EnsureEMERGENCYActivations( TransmituserIdentity. ELIMINATEdelaysinDispatchingduetootherRADIOtraffic. )

5. SDF-SanDiegoFIRE(That’sus) COP-NavalBaseCoronadoPOLICE(Security) SDP-NavalBaseSanDiegoPOLICE(Security) PLP-NavalBasePointLoma(Upper/Lower) SCF-SCIFIRE EC-ElCentro SB-SealBeach VC-VenturaCounty MANYOTHERBASESANDAGENCIES

6. CHANNELSFORSANDIEGOAREABASES AREPROGRAMMEDONZONESA,B,C MetroFIREOperationsONZONE-A MetroFIRECrashandTrainingonZONE-B alongwithsomePortOpsChannels. MetroPOLICECoronado,SanDiego,Point LomaareonZONE-C

8. AllunitswillbeDispatchedfromthisChannel. DispatchwillTONEtheStationandinitiateanALERTtone(BEEPBEEPBEEP)onthis channelpriortotransmittingVerbalinformationforEACHEmergency. ALERTTONINGshouldgeteveryones attention UnitswillbeassignedaChannelfortheIncident.

9. DISPATCHCHANNELISFORDISPATCHES ONLY STATIONSMAYACKNOWLEDGEONTHIS CHANNEL OnceintheVEHICLEtheassignedCOMMANDchannelshouldbeusedforall IncidenttrafficbetweentheUNITand DISPATCH

10. TheFollowingDailyNONPrioritytrafficwill beTransmittedonthisChannel. • On andofftheAir • TrainingDelaystatus • In and outoffService (ie… GARAGEetc.) • Move up/Cover • QuestionsforDispatch • Contactingother“ON AIR”unitsforNONPriority • /NONIncidenttraffic. • Keepcommunicationsshortandtothepoint. • GENERALLYTHERE IS ONLYONEDISPATCHER • WORKINGALLOF THEMETROFIRECHANNELS

11. UsedtoCommunicateBetweenUnitsand DispatchDuringIncidents. UseWillBeAssignedbyDispatch PrimarilyUSEDbyBattalion11UNITSto managetheirincidents

12. UsedtoCommunicateBetweenUnitsand DispatchDuringIncidents. UseWillBeAssignedbyDispatch PrimarilyUSEDbyBattalion12UNITStomanagetheirincidents

13. UsedtoCommunicateBetweenUnitsand DispatchDuringIncidents. UseWillBeAssignedbyDispatch PrimarilyUSEDbyBattalion13UNITStomanagetheirincidents

14. UsedtoCommunicateBetweenUnitsand DispatchDuringIncidents. UseWillBeAssignedbyDispatch PrimarilyUSEDonadditionalEmergencies whentheotherCommandchannelsareinuse.

15. UsedtoCommunicateBetweenUnitsand DispatchDuringIncidents. UseWillBeAssignedbyDispatch PrimarilyUSEDonadditionalEmergencies whentheotherCommandchannelsareinuse.

16. TheseChannelswillbeusedforTactical communicationbetweenFieldunits. Dispatchwillnotroutinelymonitorthese channels. ItisuptotheDiscretionoftheICwhentouse TacChannels. Upto4Tacchannelsareavailableforuse

17. FirePreventiondailyoperationswillbe conductedonthischannel. IfaFirePreventionofficialisassignedtoan Incident,theywillswitchovertotheChannel assignedtotheINCIDENT.

18. ACOFLIFEGDthisChannelisforthedaily operationsoftheNorthIslandBeachLIFEGUARDS ThischannelcanbeusedtoCommunicate DirectlywiththeLIFEGUARDStorequest theirassistanceandcoordinateBeachArea incidents@NorthIslandBeaches NOTE:TheLIFEGUARDShaveaccesstoallof ourchannelsaswell.

19. ASDFEMRGTHISISTHECHANNEL THATTHEEMERGENCYBUTTON ACTIVATES RICTeamMUST monitorthischannel DispatchMUSTmonitorthischannel ICMUSTmonitorthischannel TheradioidentificationALIASistransmitted totheDispatchersscreenwhentheEMRG buttonhasbeenactivated

20. A FIRECONVandAAATFP-1,2,3 Theseare “DIRECT”Radioto Radio channels. TheseChannels are“OFFthe System” TheseChannels aretobe usedfor “Line of site” radioCommunications. TheseChannels donotusearepeater TheseChannels canbe usedto talk between units in aclose proximity regardlessof the location TheseChannels shouldbe usedin locationswhere “System”coverageis pooror doesn’t exist. DISPATCHDOESNOTHAVETHIS CAPABILITY

21. BSDACRASHusedbytheAirfieldatNorth IslandforINCIDENTSontheAirfield. DISPATCHmonitorsthischannel THETOWERTONESSTATION-11 DIRECTLYusingthischannel BSDABEACHusedbytheAirfieldat ImperialBeachforINCIDENTSontheAirfield. DISPATCHmonitorsthischannel THETOWERTONESSTATION-14 DIRECTLYusingthischannel

22. TherearemanyotherRegionalchannelsprogrammedintheRadio,mostofwhichare SPECIALUSE,ordedicatedtootherAgencies. TheseChannelsarenottypicallyusedbyus regularly. EXAMPLE: Security,Portops,RegionalCommand& Training. SPECIALTYCHANNELSFOR”BIGNAVY” ChannelsforBasesinotherareasoftheRegion.

23. MUSTUSESCANFEATURE UnitsintheField(ONAIR)needtomonitor BothDISPATCHandADMINCHANNEL Unit(s)willbeDispatchedonDISPATCH Otherunit(s)willcontactyouonADMINforNONPriorityTraffic AttheendofyourRadiotransmission PLEASEverbalizewhatChannelyouaretalkingon.ThishelpsotherunitsidentifywhatchanneltousewhenCommunicating backtoyouoryourunit.

24. USECOMMONFIRESERVICETERMS. IE:RESPONDING,ATSCENE,AVAILABLE, TRANSPORTING,OFFLOADING, DELAYEDRESPONSE,OUTOFSERVICE. PLEASEDONOTUSESLANGORTERMSTHATARECOMMONFIRESERVICETERMS.THISCANLEADTOCONFUSIONANDDELAYS.

25. WHENREQUESTINGPD YOU MUSTTELLTHE DISPATCHERWHATPD IS NEEDEDFOR. ROUTINEPD WILL RESPONDWHEN AVAILABLE. EXPIDITEPD(NO CODE)PD NEEDEDASAP. COVERNOW(CODERESPONSE)WHENFIRECREWIS INDANGER.

26. RadiotrafficsplitupbetweenPriorityandNon PriorityChannels EliminatingDELAYSforDispatchingdueto otherTrafficonthesamechannel DesignateduseofChannelstoincrease efficiency BASEPOLICE,LIFEGUARDSandother RegionalAgenciesareonthesameRadio System

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