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by GARETH1125 on September 21, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Greetings all. Just a quick one to ask if there is anyone else out there that works for the local emergency services (Police/Fire/ambulance etc) that is a licenced user also? I'm based in the UK, and frequesntly take on of my HT's with me to pass the shift whilst on standby waiting for jobs (I work for the Paramedic Emergency Service here in the North West UK). To date, i've only ever spoke to 1 other person in my field of work, and even then he was in his shack, but i'm curious to know if anyone else out there does it? Yours, Gareth - M6IGJ IRLP: 5400/5450 - Manchester UK

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by KC7YRA on September 23, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Hello, I work as a paremedic/firefighter here in the states. I take several radios to work with me on most shifts. We work 48 hours straight usually. I set up a small radio in my bunk so I can talk to my wife and family. I also use it to listen to broadcast radio. I cannot ever remember a time when I have spoken with another ham/paramedic. I just don't think it is very common. Brad

RE: Radio use in the field?	Reply
by GARETH1125 on September 23, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Hey Brad. Thanks for the reply. First off, I really don't envy your 48 hour shift. I think we'd drop this side working doing that. My shifts are 12 hours, and we tend to be bouncing from job to job without seeing station untill the end of our shift (except for meal breaks). But nice to know i'm not the only one. lol. I have spoke to a guy called Paul (his call sign eludes me)a few times on the winsys who works as a paramedic, albiet in the hospital enviroment now, but never anyone else thats road staff. are you a HF user or do you use 2m/70cm bands? by all means, feel free to dial into the irlp repeaters shown above and say hello sometime. Yours, Gareth - Manchester UK - M6IGJ (also on echolink)

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by WB5JEO on September 23, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I (police and paramedic) had the local repeaters and simplex frequency programmed into my issued HT, along with all the public safety channels. Aside from the obvious, it was useful in such things as a major hurricane sending waves of displaced coastal residents our way, since we had limited shelter facilities, and I could keep up with shelters status in the major city 30 miles on. Same thing prior to that when I was in the fire service. I've also always had them in my mobile radios and still do, although I need no official radio capability in my current state law enforcement work but do carry a variety of fire, EMS, and other channels as a medical first-responder volunteer. I don't know of an EMS net, but I talk with other police weekly on the IPA Radio Club HF net.

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by N0YSN on September 29, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Might as well jump in here as well (Police, Paramedic, Fire) and I have been known to take my radio to work occasionally. I find a lot of hams with various emergency services backgrounds working special events here locally. Just got done working a 160+ mile bike ride as a volunteer on my days off.

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by KB2FCV on September 30, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I am a volunteer fire fighter, and I often carry my own HT-1000. Our FD only uses a handful of frequencies - dispatch, fireground, etc. That leaves alot of open channels. I put in a few local ham repeaters that are the designated "County OEM" machines as well as one or two simplex frequencies. In addition to that, I placed the weather broadcast on 162.55. In the non-likely event that hams are called out, I can monitor things if needed.

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