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Call out types - phonetic alphabet

  • 19-08-2012 9:39pm
    #1
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭


    What do the different types of calls for emergency services mean?

    For example an Alpha call or and Echo call etc. Are these just different levels of how urgent they are, or is it given to specific incidents. Like one might be car crash, another might be cardiac arrest?


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  • #2
    angeline
    Registered Users Posts: 901 ✭✭✭angeline


    No, it has nothing to do with the type of call. It is the name of a particular car in any sub district. It is the car they are calling.


  • #3
    POGAN
    Registered Users Posts: 979 ✭✭✭POGAN


    Traffic corp callsign tangos


  • #4
    drill
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭drill


    For Ambulance calls see link:


    http://www.phecit.ie/Documents/PHECC%20Standards/EMS%20Priority%20Dispatch%20Standard-V3.pdf


  • #5
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    What do the different types of calls for emergency services mean?

    For example an Alpha call or and Echo call etc. Are these just different levels of how urgent they are, or is it given to specific incidents. Like one might be car crash, another might be cardiac arrest?

    Garda calls don't work like that. Looking at the above it sounds like your scanning ambo frequencies.


  • #6
    kub
    Registered Users Posts: 6,528 ✭✭✭kub


    Oh oh, has someone hacked tetra?


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  • #7
    Hooch
    Registered Users Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭Hooch


    kub wrote: »
    Oh oh, has someone hacked tetra?

    Ambo isnt on Tetra yet


  • #8
    drill
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭drill


    Hooch wrote: »
    Ambo isnt on Tetra yet

    Kerry are using Tetra at least a year with the old regions of the East/Midlands/Northeast and south (cork) due to go live before year end


  • #9
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Eru wrote: »
    Garda calls don't work like that. Looking at the above it sounds like your scanning ambo frequencies.

    Im not :) Although I have listened to the Gardai one several years back. I dont have even own a radio to listen to them. I ask this out of pure hearsay. Heard somebody discussing it and got curious. I'm sure nobody believes me but whatever, they can think what they want. I wouldnt lie to ye :D
    I suppose I should have clarified it was ambulance calls specifically I was looking for, but I wasnt sure if other ES operated similarly or not.
    drill wrote: »
    For Ambulance calls see link:


    http://www.phecit.ie/Documents/PHECC%20Standards/EMS%20Priority%20Dispatch%20Standard-V3.pdf

    Thanks, thats exactly what Im looking for. Its obvsiouly not a secret anyway


  • #10
    Eru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭Eru


    seven_eleven wrote: »
    Im not :) Although I have listened to the Gardai one several years back. I dont have even own a radio to listen to them. I ask this out of pure hearsay. Heard somebody discussing it and got curious. I'm sure nobody believes me but whatever, they can think what they want. I wouldnt lie to ye :D

    I was not passing comment on your pastimes or you personally, just assumed that's why you were asking as you were hearing calls but didn't understand the jargon.

    No offence intended


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