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The Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium is a planned multi-county  APCO [[Project 25]] complainant project designed to function as "interoperable land mobile radio communications system, one that immediately supports Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement, and whose design will support others, such as highway, schools, water, and other vital utility and service functions." Currently the Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System (OCICS) is the only segment online and in everyday use.
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The Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium is a planned multi-county  APCO [[Project 25]] complainant project designed to function as an "interoperable land mobile radio communications system, one that immediately supports Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement, and whose design will support others, such as highway, schools, water, and other vital utility and service functions." Currently the Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System (OCICS) is the only segment online and in everyday use.
  
 
== Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System ==
 
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Police agencies on the system are dispatched from dedicated area talkgroups (3 for county police agencies, and 2 for Syracuse city police). Lager scale events (hostage situations, Chases, etc.) are often moved from one of area talkgroups to "Channel 1" (TG 31 for the City of Syracuse, TG45 for the county) to avoid disruption of routine dispatch operations. Additional tactical channels are assigned as needed.
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Police agencies on the system are dispatched from dedicated area talkgroups (3 for county police agencies, and 2 for Syracuse city police). Lager scale events (hostage situations, chases, etc.) are often moved from one of area talkgroups to "Channel 1" (TG 31 for the City of Syracuse, TG45 for the county) to avoid disruption of routine dispatch operations. Additional tactical channels are assigned as needed.
  
 
County Fire and EMS are dispatched from talkgroups 1 and 7 respectively. Events that are anticipated to require a dedicated operations channel are assigned a one of 10 'tact' channels in the following order: 3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,2. Tact-2 (TG 2) is reserved for communications for events not requiring the assignment of a dedicated talkgroup, and as such is assigned last.
 
County Fire and EMS are dispatched from talkgroups 1 and 7 respectively. Events that are anticipated to require a dedicated operations channel are assigned a one of 10 'tact' channels in the following order: 3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,2. Tact-2 (TG 2) is reserved for communications for events not requiring the assignment of a dedicated talkgroup, and as such is assigned last.

Revision as of 00:01, 2 September 2010

The Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium is a planned multi-county APCO Project 25 complainant project designed to function as an "interoperable land mobile radio communications system, one that immediately supports Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement, and whose design will support others, such as highway, schools, water, and other vital utility and service functions." Currently the Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System (OCICS) is the only segment online and in everyday use.

Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System

OCICS control channel data as scene by UniTrunker on a busy night.

The Onondaga County Interoperable Communications System is a 15 site Motorola APCO P25 simulcast trunked radio system, currently 13 frequency pairs are available for voice communication. Testing of the system began in late 2009 and the Syracuse Police Department became the first agency to go live on the system on February 2, 2010. Onondaga county police agencies followed a month later, with county Fire and EMS agencies approximately two months later. The City of Syracuse Fire Department was the last county public safety agency to switch over to the system in June of 2010. Currently all public safety radio operations for Onondaga County are conducted on this system, with the exception of Rural/Metro Medical Services (the primary EMS provider for the city of Syracuse) and TLC Ambulance (which conducts limited EMS operations in the entire county) both of whom retain their own private VHF radio communications independent of the 911 Center.

Day to Day Operation


Police agencies on the system are dispatched from dedicated area talkgroups (3 for county police agencies, and 2 for Syracuse city police). Lager scale events (hostage situations, chases, etc.) are often moved from one of area talkgroups to "Channel 1" (TG 31 for the City of Syracuse, TG45 for the county) to avoid disruption of routine dispatch operations. Additional tactical channels are assigned as needed.

County Fire and EMS are dispatched from talkgroups 1 and 7 respectively. Events that are anticipated to require a dedicated operations channel are assigned a one of 10 'tact' channels in the following order: 3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,2. Tact-2 (TG 2) is reserved for communications for events not requiring the assignment of a dedicated talkgroup, and as such is assigned last.

City of Syracuse Fire dispatch assigns operations channels based upon the district chief assigned to the call. Channels 2 and 12 for Car 2's first due; channels 3 and 13 for Car 3's first due; and channels 4 and 14 for Car 4's first due. These pairs correspond to talkgroups 22, 23, and 24 respectively. The assignment of two channels represents a subtlety in the programing of SFD Radios: channels 2, 3, and 4 correspond to three UHF simplex frequencies which are used as direct talk fireground frequencies ( the Syracuse Fire Department expressed concern about the ability of the TRS to provide adequate fireground coverage during the design phase of the system). Each of the district chief's vehicles contains a repeater which repeats the simlex frequency out to the TRS on the appropriate talkgroup. Channels 12, 13, and 14 are direct access channels to TGs 22, 23, and 24.

Syracuse Fire events that are not assigned a district chief, but require an operations channel (all district chiefs already on calls, stuck elevator, etc.) are assigned channels 7(TG27), [8](TG28), or 9(TG26). All events taking place at Hancock International Airport are assigned to channel 6 (TG29).

Radio IDs


All radios on the OCICS are assigned a six digit radio ID. Radios belonging to police agencies begin with 1, fire agency radios begin with 2 (except the Syracuse Fire Department, as noted below), and EMS agency radios begin with 3. The second two digits of the radio ID correspond to a county assigned agency code (Syracuse City Police are assigned 01 for mobiles and 02 for portables). See the Onondaga County (NY) page for a complete listing of these codes. The final three digits correspond to an individual radio.

Examples:

  • RID 145183: 1 (police agency) + 45(OCSO Road Patrol) + 183(radio 183) = OCSO Road Patrol Radio 143
  • RID 101374: 1 (police agency) + 01 (SPD Mobile) + 374 (radio 374) = SPD Mobile 374
  • RID 219108: 2 (fire agency) + 19 (Fairmount FD) + 108 (radio 108) = Fairmount Fire Radio 108
  • RID 382003: 3 (EMS agency) + 82 (NAVAC) + 003 (radio 003) = NAVAC Radio 3
  • RID 337011: 3 (EMS agency) + 37 (Minoa FD) + 003 (radio 011) = Minoa Ambulance Radio 3

Some agencies do seem to have logic in assigning their radio IDs, for example fire radios whose last three digits begin with 00 seem to correspond to chiefs. E.g., 257002 belongs to Solvay Car 2. Also note that SPD Mobile numbers correspond to the vehicle's 'C number' not the number printed on the side of the vehicle.

Syracuse Fire Department Radio IDs


Syracuse Fire Radio IDs begin with 99 (their county agency code). The third digit (and fourth for the Rescue Company and ARFF) can be used to identify the type of apparatus the radio is assigned to: 1 for Engines, 2 for Trucks, 30 for the Rescue Company and 34 ARFF. Fourth and fifth digit represent the individual unit number, e.g. 99105 represents a radio belonging to Engine Company 5, while 99208 represents a radio belonging to Truck 8. The final digit corresponds to individual radios: 0 is assigned to mobile radios, 1 is the officer's portable, 2-8 are additional portables, 9 is reserved for mobiles on the Minis.

Examples:

  • RID 991171: 99 (SFD) + 1 (engine) + 17 (17) + 1 (Officer's Portable) = SFD Engine 17 Officer's Portable
  • RID 992080: 99 (SFD) + 2 (truck) + 08 (8) + 0 (mobile) = SFD Truck 8 Mobile
  • RID 991069: 99 (SFD) + 1 (engine) + 06 (6) + 9 (mini Mobile) = Mini 6 Mobile
  • RID 993014: 99 (SFD) + 30 (rescue) + 1 (1) + 4 (portable 4) = SFD Rescue Portable 4