Do you carry a pager or radio

Just curious how many of your depts issue you radios over pagers? If so what radios do you carry? Do you find it an inconvenience?

My dept issues everyone a Min V and the officers also get Motorola HT1250. If we want to buy our own we can. I have a Kenwood.

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Permalink Reply by 1092l017pr9w9 on April 25, 2012 at 11:41pm

My Fire dept. issues every Firefighter pagers (minitor III,IV,V) and all Officers get radios and pagers

the First Aid squad issues pagers to all driver and pagers and radios to all EMT

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Permalink Reply by Josh Chambers on May 1, 2012 at 7:14pm

My department issues Minitor V pagers to everyone. Officers and FF's that work interior get radios. Most officers are carrying a Motorola HT1250, FF's have Kenwood TK272's.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Anderson on May 2, 2012 at 4:27am

Probies get a Minitor IV pager. When you come off of probation you are issued a Vertec 160 or 180 handheld. We allow everyone to keep the pager as long as we have extras.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy D. Stone Jr on May 3, 2012 at 9:39pm

I have a Minitor V pager and Motorola CP200 VHF radio. We are switching to the 800mhz radios right now. I may be getting one of those soon.

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Permalink Reply by Amos D Thomas on May 9, 2012 at 12:50am

i know most of our department have radios they are new kenwood they are a pretty much county wide radio but we don't carry to many pagers were im at because its easier and we have problems getting the dispatch to do both tones when their is a fire etc. but most of our new guys get a pager until we can get them a radio or until they show their interested enough/ responsible to have a radio i would rather sacrafice a 300.00 dollar pager than a 800-1000.00 radio ya know