Emergency Room Recorder Question

[Birken Vogt]

We have been asked to provide a system that will record radio and telephone traffic for an emergency room. They have one POTS line coming in, a single frequency Motorola console for high band, and a 4 frequency console for UHF all located in close proximity. What should I start looking at for this application?

Birken

[Will]

Four channels minimum for the present configuration.

[wavetar]

Since it's for a Public Safety application, I'd take a look at a logger from NICE Systems (bought out Dictaphone last year). Not sure if they still offer the "Freedom" series of loggers that Dictaphone did, but here's a link to one of their products:

http://www.nice.com/products/multimedia/nicelog.php

Their claim to fame is that the logger records to internal hard drives (60GB in the model I recently looked at), and from there you network them to whatever back-up media you desire.

I've heard ggod things about Eventide loggers as well, but have no experience with them:

http://www.eventide.com/loggers/loggers.htm

Todd

[RFguy]

We have used several Omincron Total Recall recorders.

http://www.omnicronelectronics.com/digi ... erview.htm

New model (out for a year or so) has ability to play back over a network.

[psapengineer]

You might, before you move them ahead, verify that your state's laws allow recording of telephone lines by "one party" consent. I'm guessing that the hospital's legal counsel would care.

That said,

Our 911 center recently surplussed an Eventide VR420 that would be ideal for your application. If you're interested feel free to write:

johnson@kittcom.org

Best Regards, Bob

[nmfire10]

We're using 16 channel NICE units. They kick ass.

[kj7xe]

We're using omnicrons here and they are very reliable and 'dispatcher-proof'...