On Feb. 2 2019 our district was getting the annual radio test and new programming completed for the year, afterwords we noticed that our tone pick list did not work properly. The radio tech was still at our office so we went and asked the individual about the issue. We were instructed that our current KNG handheld radios had one pick list and that our BK DPH handhelds and the BK digital mobiles in our vehicle had a different pick list. Not all of the tones were different just the main repeater tones that we use on our district. While trying to manually fix this in the programming we discovered that there were two other tones that were incorrect in our BK pick list. This issue has a high chance of creating confusion to the users do the fact that we run two different styles of radios and having to remember different tones for each style of radio that we use. We were able to fix this issue on our district but if another forest resource comes to our district this will still be an issue. Communications is almost always an issue on tragedy or near miss incidents. There is no excuse for this when everything is planned out months in advance. |