FD radio info at rrdb

FD radio info at RRDB

typically - a FD either uses pagers or they dont

if they do use pagers - they might be digital or voice

if they do use pagers - the pagers might be on the main channel or on
a separate paging channel

often FD paging is done on a countywide channel

RRDB seems to show "fire dispatch" for channels that have paging

RRDB seems to show 'operations' for any channel that has dispatcher to
field unit 2 way voice comms

the simplest radio system might be 1 channel simplex with paging and
response and FG

2nd simplest system might be ch 1 for paging and response - with Ch 2
as FG - maybe short range - maybe no base station

the third simplest system might be - ch 1 countywide paging and
response - then ch 2 would be the local fd comm channel (which would
have response and FG comms)

there are a huge number of listings for FDs in the RRDB that are
labeled as 'operations' which seems to indicate paging plus response
plus (some) FG

perhaps the underlying theme is - FDs try to separate the paging
channel from the FG channel usually - they dont want paging signals to
drown out FG messages

RRDB seems to use the term 'dispatch' to indicate the paging channel -
if a FD uses pagers - the RRDB also seems to use the term 'dispatch'
to differentiate a dispatch channel from a FG channel or a response
channel

suggestion - for the typical RRDB user - they dont care how this info
is listed - they are primarily interested in police channels - anyone
who is interested in FDs will just load in all the FD channels that
they can find

maybe some nationwide nomenclature can be developed - "dispatch'
channels are used to talk to a dispatcher - 'paging' channels are used
for one way paging channels - 'response' and 'command' and
'fireground' and 'tactical' channels can be other channel names

California FDs use the terms - 'command' and 'tactical' - maybe
'primary' also - 'command' channels are used by units approaching an
incident to talk to the IC - and are also used for IC to boss and IC
to dispatcher comms - 'tactical' channels are used for field unit to
field unit comms (they can be either repeaterized channels or non
repeaterized channels