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by Ambul8
Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:11 pm
Forum: Pictures
Topic: Tango 110
Replies: 28
Views: 11419

dazla wrote: So Secureforce can do people for DUI now too?? interesting.
Perhaps it is to do the bus drivers.

Similar to random drug and alcohol on mines/industrial sites.

ahhh D&A tests - the best start to the morning - watching people pee into a cup
by Ambul8
Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:07 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: SJA Depot Closures
Replies: 17
Views: 8942

BTW, at the end of the day SJA makes the income form taking people to hospital "you call we hall" is there mentality and they hate it when crews "62" jobs. IMO they don't really care about the hospital system and infact probably love ramping as they can use that excuse for the r...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Quotes
Replies: 15
Views: 9185

Some of my favorite quotes come from the UK version of The Office. ricky Gervais is a dead funny sod: “What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I in...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:27 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Operations Centre - Dispatch Console
Replies: 21
Views: 13636

Always RX wrote:Thanks for that Ambul8 ..very interesting. I like your signature pic too mate.
Ta, it was the only pic I could find that would best represent what I looked like if I was an ambulance :D
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:26 pm
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Operations Centre - Dispatch Console
Replies: 21
Views: 13636

Re: ambul8

ambul8, thanks for that mate, just wanted to put my thanks in as well, ive been puaaling myself as to how it works. must say , thats a legandary radio system they have to save lifes with. do you happen to know which report it was? yeah the pic came from the 2006/2007 Annual Report http://www.ambula...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:52 am
Forum: For Sale
Topic: Tait 2020 II
Replies: 5
Views: 3274

Its the newer tait with the tear drop buttons. Series II me thinks. Remote head, currently set up in a project box as a base radio, with adaptor for aerial and room for power pack. With the genuine speaker. Insofar as the mounting brackets go I will have to check this out when I am back in Perth on ...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:34 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Operations Centre - Dispatch Console
Replies: 21
Views: 13636

Markmywords wrote:Have they changed the selcal tone in the depots ?

the old daa daa daa was good more so when someone decided to turn it up full on night shift and you were asleep.
tis a much more subtle beep beep beep for the new age more sensitive ambos
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:47 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Operations Centre - Dispatch Console
Replies: 21
Views: 13636

If i may, I've been often at Ozzie Park depo - when picking up a VFAS vehicle - usually if there is a job that comes through - there is like a alarm that beeps 3 Times (via PA) - "Priority 1 pending in Osborne Park" (example)... So does those 3 buttons - the Red, Yellow etc trigger the no...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:59 am
Forum: For Sale
Topic: Tait 2020 II
Replies: 5
Views: 3274

Tait 2020 II

I have one of these at home and am thinking of selling it. Wont be back from work until 11 December. It is set up in a project box as a base radio, so I am not sure what exactly it has with it (ie not sure if it has vehicle mounting brackets). PM me if you are interested with any questions and I sha...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:54 am
Forum: General Scanning
Topic: New Scanner
Replies: 1
Views: 2205

New Scanner

Hi There I am thinking of updating my scanner and am looking at something liek this: http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/474df0710592b9182740c0a87f9c071c/Product/View/D1833 Does anyone use this scanner and if so/if not any comments on it. Or would you recommend something different? Don't wa...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:57 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: SJA Depot Closures
Replies: 17
Views: 8942

One thing St John loves talking about is that there response times are still under the "average" allowed in most cases. Perhaps people should start asking there local pollies what the response times are in their suburb...might be some interesting replies. I also loved the quote that said ...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:28 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: SJA Depot Closures
Replies: 17
Views: 8942

I was working out at the swan view show a week ago when a local pollie was crapping on about making sure that we got more 'ambulance drivers" in the country areas if he was elected in. He wasn't impressed by my reply Paramedics and volunteers sir don't insult them by calling them ambulance dri...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: Quotes
Replies: 15
Views: 9185

Quotes

I just read Gavins signature: The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has limits... Laughed my buttocks off for 5 minutes. Nothing truer has ever been said. So what is your favourite quote of all times? Mine is “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quic...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:15 am
Forum: Other stuff
Topic: Dealing with grief
Replies: 17
Views: 6665

Not to mention the fact that I do not really know most of the people that I treat and I can claim an emotional separation from them. a few weeks ago or maybe a few months ago, some poor copper arrived at a crash scene and it was his teenage son that was dead :( yeah it sucks big time, i've put a go...
by Ambul8
Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:50 am
Forum: Ambulance and paramedic services
Topic: Operations Centre - Dispatch Console
Replies: 21
Views: 13636

bill is just a star full stop.