NJ SPEN UTAC - RadioReference. com Forums Recently, I heard Union Twp on SPEN 1 alerting surrounding towns of a hi-jacked vehicle I assume they use SPEN, when it affects towns in the next county over (Essex County in this case) For Union County, I normally only hear hotline transmissions on NJICS I don't think they have any conventional channels, besides SPEN for this anymore
SPEN for Northern NJ - RadioReference. com Forums Correct SPEN is a joke, almost 100% UNPROFESSIONAL communications, playing moving clips, Adult movie clips etc etc not to mention interfering with pursuit transmissions Bolo's - been a radio professional a long long so I don't think you do want to enter a into a debate with me on the subject - better ways for interagency communications they should go PSIC it would be much better
SPEN - RadioReference. com Forums SPEN 2 - the national law enforcement emergency channel SPEN 3 - a law enforcement car-to-car channel (was more or less unusable in Bergen Co because of Rockland Co using it) SPEN 4 - an intercom with "everybody else" (same as JEMS 4 and usually claimed by EMS coordination at large scale multiple casualty incidents)
S. P. E. N. - RadioReference. com Forums Spen 1 is the only one in use around Burlington County I never hear anything on SPEN 2-4 Most broadcasts for GRM and Flashes that go out over P-5 on the Burlco system get simulcast on SPEN 1 Occasionally they forget to enable the patch Same for Camden County
SPEN 1 Carrier - RadioReference. com Forums Thus, agencies who washed VHF and SPEN capabilities out of their reach, (based on Central NJ encounters), are resorting to the nasty analog to P25 patches by having SPEN 4 patched into TRS TGs I say nasty, as previous experiences with patching conventional analog frequencies like Warren PD in Somerset County into Countywide PD on the Somerset
SPEN for Northern NJ | Page 2 | RadioReference. com Forums SPEN is a perfect example true radio interoperability after 911 interoperability was the new political buzzword, then everyone started to build ( were sold ) these statewide county wide closed systems and getting rid of there perfectly good conventional radios, then starting to encrypt everything and we are now further away from true radio
SPEN Radio Traffic on the various trunked systems SPEN in those Counties will get used for matters of larger interest Pursuits and so on Morris, Somerset, Union are good examples There are often SPEN calls from municipalities to State Police or vice versa along the interstates Hudson, Essex, Passaic and PAPD and Turnpike all active on SPEN As Bob said Burlco active
Spen - RadioReference. com Forums generally speaking spen is mostly "line of sight" just like any other vhf simplex frequency variables such as output power and antenna height play into the equation i do know of what i consider to be a pretty far spen exchange a police dept in central eastern monmouth county talked base to car on spen 1 the car was in lodi police hq was able to make out what he said yes,several time's town's
What will become of SPEN? - RadioReference. com Forums On many of my shifts I would turn SPEN down regardless of whether there was any activity or not simply because I knew before my shift was over there would be some idiocy occuring Since I-287 was opened through my town back in the '90's I do keep SPEN turned up