Evansville/Vanderburgh County Central Dispatch will be conducting fire communications training this week with new employees. Portions of this training will be conducted on closed talkgroups of the radio system in cooperation with local public safety responders. However, we are aware that our local media partners and scanner enthusiasts often open scan the frequencies of our system and may hear transmission fragments and mistake these transmissions for real-world incidents.
The majority of this radio training will occur during the following times:
• 7am-3pm – Wednesday, November 20, 2013
• 9am-3pm – Thursday, November 21, 2013
For those that monitor scanner traffic, training will be conducted on the following talkgroup IDs. These ID’s are being provided so that you may identify the radio traffic occurring on these groups is in fact training related. Furthermore, you may also properly program your scanner in EDACS trunking mode and lock out these talkgroups to avoid any confusion.
Training talkgroup ID#’s 1194, 1188, 1189, 1190, 1191, 1192, 1184, 1185, 1186, 1187
This radio training is the best and most realistic experience that can be conducted without putting responders at risk and is a necessary step in ensuring our Telecommunicators are equipped to perform at a level of professionalism that Vanderburgh County deserves.
The operations shift supervisor on duty may be called at 812.426.7331 regarding any questions about radio traffic you might be hearing.
