Colville Natl Forest 2009 Radio Users Guide

[zerg901]

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/colville/new...adio-Guide.pdf

2009 Radio System Users Guide for Colville National Forest in the State of Washington - includes radio freqs and radio use procedures

If anyone has any Radio Users Guides from any other agencies - please share! (I think it is 20 years since I have seen one of these guides)

Peter Sz

[zerg901]

This document is apparently still online as of 22 Aug 2009 - the link is still at the bottom of their dispatch center page - pdf and ?doc

I see that MT Fed column had found this item a week before I did

[Exsmokey]

You've been making some great finds here lately. When I have a little time I try to search for fire management plans and coop agreements that will often contain information like this, but have been coming up empty handed more frequently, even considering the "non-classified but sensitive" nature of this type of information.

If you look at the website of the dispatch center for the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, they have the Forest's radio user guide posted and have continued to do so throughout the withdrawal of RF information from public view.

[zerg901]

I suspect that there is exactly one person in Washington DC who is charge of deleting all the radio freqs and fire station locations from the Internet. I dont know why he/she works so hard. Peter Sz

[Exsmokey]

Here is another useful document on another Pacific Northwest interagency dispatch center page:

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/oka/fire/cwi...-aa-ag-map.pdf

This one is on the first page of the Central Washington interagency communications center.

[trumpetman]

For the FS A/G freqs....will this be the same nationwide....or is this strictly for the included area on the field guide.

ie. is 168.3125 the freq. nationwide? What about the A2G G channel and H channel?

[zerg901]

I have never seen any documents that leads me to believe those air to ground freqs are nationwide. They might be regionwide (ie - west of the Mississippi). But that is just a guess. Many of those air to ground freqs are new in the last couple of years. Historically there were only 4 FM air to ground and 4 FM air to air freqs for the federal wildfire agencies IIRC. Maybe ExSmokey can elaborate. Peter Sz