November PTT Report

The report shows statistics on Push to Talk (PTT) throughout the County as well as tower site statistics. In November there were 327,530 PTT’s, brining the 2009 total up to 3,507,923 PTT’s.

The following stats are discipline specific county wide.
Law Enforcement- 114,736 PTT’s
Fire- 34,545 PTT’s
EMS- 46,130 PTT’s
Agencies- 71,175 PTT’s
DPS- 2018 PTT’s
County Departments- 5,436 PTT’s
Municipalities- 71,903 PTT’s

Monthly PTT’s from the main dispatch (9-1-1 Center) talk groups:
Fire- 21,261 PTT’s
EMS- 39,246 PTT’s
Police West- 22,641 PTT’s
Police East- 67,158 PTT’s
Police Data- 20,891 PTT’s

The average daily PTT’s was 10,918.

Top PTTers
County – Dept. of Transportation with 32,286 PTT’s.
Public Safety – DPS (CUMB911) with 1,276 PTT’s.
Law Enforcement – Silv1er Spring Police with 11,577 PTT’s.
Fire – Naval Support Activity Co.37 with 2,161 PTT’s
Fire Police- East Pennsboro Co. 5 with 704 PTT’s
EMS – East Pennsboro Twp EMS Co.75 with 322 PTT’s.
Municipal – Lower Allen Public Works with 1,851 PTT’s.


Voice calls generated per site
Lambs Gap- 263,222 calls
Reesers Summit- 234,798 calls
EOC- 235,271 calls
Courthouse- 163,328 calls
Commonwealth Technology Center- 129,272 calls
3 Square Hollow- 131,366 calls
Ship Cell- 118,211 calls
South Mountain- 126,119 calls
Waggoners Gap- 79,805 calls
Rose Garden- 86,024 calls
Boiling Springs- 77,032 calls
Shippensburg- 82,700 calls
Dickinson Twp- 64,380 calls
Holy Spirit- 36,411 calls
Kings Gap- 40,431 calls
Pine Grove- 6,106 calls
*There were no queued calls this month.


Site Utilization (Percentage of Site Use) November 2009
Lambs Gap- 9.44% Forward 6.71% Reverse
Reesers Summit- 10.3% Forward 3.43% Reverse
EOC- 8.25% Forward 2.73% Reverse
Courthouse- 9.9% Forward .53% Reverse
Commonwealth Technology Center- 8.19% Forward .44% Reverse
3 Square Hollow- 7.09% Forward .37% Reverse
Ship Cell- 8.4% Forward .5% Reverse
South Mountain- 6.75% Forward .25% Reverse
Waggoners Gap- 6.65% Forward .29% Reverse
Rose Garden- 6.72% Forward .26% Reverse
Boiling Springs- 6.66% Forward .12% Reverse
Shippensburg- 6.99% Forward .42% Reverse
Dickinson Twp- 5.69% Forward .13% Reverse
Holy Spirit- 6.46% Forward .11% Reverse
Kings Gap- 4.76% Forward .09% Reverse
Pine Grove- 3.48% Forward .01% Reverse


As of this report we have 2,340 radios on the system in Cumberland County. Total number of talk groups to date = 378 on the system within the County.

Control Stations: 20
Mobiles: 662
Portables: 1,658
These numbers include a few of the State radios that we’ve allowed to use our system.