BOCA FIRE RESCUE NET - City of Boca Raton

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BOCA FIRE RESCUE
now on CVS property) will be closed–
off. Phase two includes the actual construction
of the CVS facility followed
by the third phase which will relocate
our current main entrance to the front of
the fire station.
The 2009 work shirt order was received
and all the shirts were distributed to
personnel. The pants order was placed
and all personnel will be issued three
new 100% cotton trousers within several
weeks.
The ground and aerial views of construction on FS 5.
Greetings from the Office of Planning!
Just think, a short while ago I could not even spell Assistant
Fire Chief and now I am one. All kidding aside, I am
excited about having the opportunity to serve our Department
in my new position. I would like to thank Fire Chief
Tom Wood, the Executive staff, and the City of Boca
Raton for their confidence in my abilities and the promotion.
I am committed to working toward making each day
a little better than the day before for our fire department
family. Please allow me to let the dust settle from my transition
of duties in order to provide a more comprehensive
report in next month’s newsletter.
Until Then - Stay Safe and Professional!
Planning
By: Mike Gergora
Assistant Chief
Communications
By: Mike O’Neil
Division Chief
This month has been mainly devoted to
determining the proper settings for Noise
Reduction and Audio Gain, and frequencies
that will be available with our rebanded
radios. We must complete the
rebanding our all of the radios in the City
by June 1, 2009. Each radio must be programmed
with new frequencies and features.
Several of the meetings that Chief Travieso
and I have attended have been to discuss
various features, new frequencies,
and assure they are correct with engineers from Motorola. We
have over forty different variations of features that must be
manually placed into programming templates. The fire department
alone has several different mobile radios, and two different
model portables. Our portable radios alone require four different
combinations of features such as the noise reduction,
audio gain, and scanning. In addition, each model radio also
requires a different programming template.
Motorola has offered us suggested guidance in enabling Audio
Gain that modulates a user’s voice amplitude for our XTS 3000
portable radios and Noise Reduction that reduces fire ground
noise for our XTS 5000 portable radios. Noise reduction is not
available for our XTS 3000 series radios. We are leaning towards
simplifying these settings as much as possible. The paper
print out for the programming of a single radio model type is
over 200 pages of options and settings.