PNB IRCS - HTH Ambulance New Brunswick (NB)
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Introduction
Land and air ambulance services in New Brunswick are provided to the province though a single private sector company named “Ambulance New Brunswick”
Maritimes Scanning Site
Visit the THE MARITIMES SCANNING SITE - NEW BRUNSWICK EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES (http://www.marscan.com/nbambulance.htm) for more information. The topics discuss in the article are :
- History (about the service and the radio system)
- Communications and Dispatch - they don't give the radio codes use on the air-for that, see below
- Air Ambulance
- Ground Ambulance
- Ambulance type and other vehicules
- Ambulance bases
- Crew Shifts and Accommodations
- Medical First Response (MFR)
- OLMC (On-line Medical Control)
- Contact with ER
Regions
ANB has divided the Province of New-Brunswick into 4 operational regions for dispatching purpose : North, East, South & West.
Radio Network
ANB utilizes a conventional VHF system (in the 148MHz and 150-152MHz) for their operations. The same freq is used 2 times for each city. Once as a talkaround (simplex) freq for the city. Again as the dispatch (repeater) freq for the same city
The channel line-up is not continous. It goes from ch 1-18, 31-48, 50, 60, 70. Odd channel number are talkaround (simplex with no tone) freqs and even channel number are dispatch (repeater with a tone usualy 151.4 except for ch. 10 & 12, with a tone of 167.9) freqs for specific cities. For exemple, (ch. 5) 148.765 is the Moncton talkaround freq while (ch. 6) 148.765 with a tone of 151.4 is the dispatch freq.