Dispatch Part Deux...

Again, a quiet night at QV leads to boring post about work. Last post I partially described our dispatch center that we commonly refer to as "the closet." Closet, meaning the small office on the 2nd floor that was transformed into our dispatch center, several years ago when the CT State Police decided to enlarge the Troop D dispatch center, and moved us upstairs. So here's some pics...

This is a pic of Position #2, which I normally inhabit on the Mid shift. The top two screens are the 911 system, the bottom two screens are the CAD, the third one from the left is the Orbicom/radio system, and the last one on the right is just my laptop. Notice my container of "life-blood"(Dunkin Donuts coffee) next to the keyboard. LOL


This is a shot towards Position #1 which is on the right, and Position #3 to the left of the window.


This is a shot of the "Main Tower" Orbicom screen. Each module is a radio frequency, and we can either use the touch screen, the mouse, or below the monitor is a normal push-to-talk button "base."


Some of our radio towers use microwave links, rather than telephone lines to communicate between dispatch and the towers. These tower modules have the four little boxes on them, where we can select frequencies from a scroll down list.


This is the cross-band tower screen, which other dispatch centers share with us. They have to be changed by DTMF, meaning we have to punch in a code to change the frequency of those towers.


A shot of the Med Patch screen, which controls the med radio for our regional hospital, Day Kimball, in Putnam.


One of our toning screens, which have the fire department and ambulance tones sorted by regions. North, Northwest, South, Plainfield/Canterbury, Killingly, Brooklyn, and Southwest.


Our CAD mapping system...


This is our "Snack Shack" which is about 5 feet behind me...


This is our management office, lol. Also below that is "Position #4" which is the only one company computer that has internet, used for company related business. It is always on, used for the VOIP system with Rhode Island, and www.iamresponding.com. It allows first responders to call in "responding", which has eliminated third party answering services for ambulance corps, and has reduced retones for the fire departments and ambulance corps...


AND FINALLY!! Here's Shayne, who is my partner tonight, seeing that it's an overtime shift for me. This is pretty much what we do on third shift, grab a spare chair, use it as a hammock, and either watch tv or surf the web on our laptops...


Hope you enjoyed this post...