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On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, John Miller wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 7:56 PM
> Subject: accessable dispatch terminals and trunked radio operations
>
>
> > Hi all, as I posted to the blindscanner group I have returned from a
> > four day vacation in Lee County, Florida, and although the weather was a
> > little cooler then what I would have preferred I have learned some
> > rather interesting information about the newer dispatch terminals that are
> > more common with Motorola trunked radio systems particularly those type
> > II systems used in public safety operations.
> > While in Florida I had the opportunity to visit the Lee County
> > Emergency Operations Center, and this houses the dispatch center for the
> > county fire departments and EMS, and also houses the central controller
> for
> > the countie's Motorola type II trunked system which is used by public
> > safety and other city and county services in Fort. Myers, and Lee County,
> > Florida. This is an older type II system that went on line in about 1990,
> > and the dispatch terminals are basically computer terminals using
> > Windows-NT, and lots of function keys. According to some people who I
> > spoke to it is more of a DOS type screen but the mouse is available as
> > well as keystrokes for all of the functions that one would ever want to
> > use. This includes logging functions, and radio functions, and other
> > things that one would need. Also, the administrative terminal where you
> > can obtain system records and activate and deactivate radios is Unix
> > based, and I think that this is promising for anyone with a screen reader
> > wanting to get into dispatching. However, the newer Windows-NT
> > replacements for the older Unix based SIMMS terminals are coming soon, but
> > I am hopeful that with the right programming we can overcome these
> > glitches, which they'll be some probably. If anyone has any questions to
> > ask of me please E-mail me on this, and I'll talk to you all soon.
>
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