"Rodger That"
Before I joined the Navy in 68 I was "radio operator" (dispatcher) for our local PD. Back then I think the town was maybe 3200 people. The assist. chief used to laugh at the mayor who insisted on having a car and a radio. He never needed it for anything at all, but sometimes I would catch him coming to work before I got off at 8AM, he'd call in "10-8". Silly
On a side note, the system was on low band VHF, somewhere around 38-39 Mhz. Half the country up here was on that same freq even though many of the agencies on it, also may have had other frequencies. There was us, the city of Sandpoint, the county sheriff, Bonner County, the sheriff to the North and that city, Boundry County and Bonners Ferry, and what little Priest River was on. Then across the river just past Priest River, in WA state, was Newport WA who also had that as one of their freqs, and Spokane County sheriff, who we could rarely hear. Then Coeur d Alene, where I now live, both city and Kootenai county were on that freq, as well as them having at least one other channel, and on the interstate is "Huetter" port of entry, and they and the Idaho State Police were on it as well. It was one big happy family, and if there was a little activity, and in rare cases a chase on the road, you could pretty well follow the progress
One thing many do not understand, is that low band VHF always used to propagate much better than up in the 150Mhz band and back there was very little on the 450Mhz band.
Back then I had a fair working knowledge of "10" signals but have forgotten most of them.
Our PD Chief examining the TTY. This was gone when I worked there. A lady who worked my job day shift before I worked there. I remember those mikes!!! We had TWO count them TWO phone lines into CITY HALL. This was TOTAL. Served the admin offices and the PD and emergencies!!! There was no 911 at that time.
And the old city hall. Dispatch was on the side to the left, just left of the walk in door that first window. Where the chief is, that window is into the passageway to that door. PD was a long narrow area along that passageway, and up against the fire dept garage further to the left. The last two windows to the left were in the fire dept section.
City admin offices were all along the front/ right section, and the city library was upstairs.
Before I joined the Navy in 68 I was "radio operator" (dispatcher) for our local PD. Back then I think the town was maybe 3200 people. The assist. chief used to laugh at the mayor who insisted on having a car and a radio. He never needed it for anything at all, but sometimes I would catch him coming to work before I got off at 8AM, he'd call in "10-8". Silly
On a side note, the system was on low band VHF, somewhere around 38-39 Mhz. Half the country up here was on that same freq even though many of the agencies on it, also may have had other frequencies. There was us, the city of Sandpoint, the county sheriff, Bonner County, the sheriff to the North and that city, Boundry County and Bonners Ferry, and what little Priest River was on. Then across the river just past Priest River, in WA state, was Newport WA who also had that as one of their freqs, and Spokane County sheriff, who we could rarely hear. Then Coeur d Alene, where I now live, both city and Kootenai county were on that freq, as well as them having at least one other channel, and on the interstate is "Huetter" port of entry, and they and the Idaho State Police were on it as well. It was one big happy family, and if there was a little activity, and in rare cases a chase on the road, you could pretty well follow the progress
One thing many do not understand, is that low band VHF always used to propagate much better than up in the 150Mhz band and back there was very little on the 450Mhz band.
Back then I had a fair working knowledge of "10" signals but have forgotten most of them.
Our PD Chief examining the TTY. This was gone when I worked there. A lady who worked my job day shift before I worked there. I remember those mikes!!! We had TWO count them TWO phone lines into CITY HALL. This was TOTAL. Served the admin offices and the PD and emergencies!!! There was no 911 at that time.
And the old city hall. Dispatch was on the side to the left, just left of the walk in door that first window. Where the chief is, that window is into the passageway to that door. PD was a long narrow area along that passageway, and up against the fire dept garage further to the left. The last two windows to the left were in the fire dept section.
City admin offices were all along the front/ right section, and the city library was upstairs.