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RadioGuy1951

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While the Rocky Fire in Lake County has gotten the headlines (Rocky Fire General Information)
there are over 70 fires in Humboldt Count alone, several in Mendocino County, and elsewhere.

CA Gov Brown has declared a state of emergency & activated the Nat'l Guard. I just had 2 CA Nat'l Guard choppers fly overhead on their way to Humboldt County.

Does anybody have ACTUAL freqs in use, for both the Ca Nat'l Guard choppers, and all other freqs in use..(beyond the published local Cal Fire freqs)...a fire this large will be using a bunch of radio channels

The Rocky fire is now over 47,000 acres (twice the size of San Francisco) and grew by 22,000 acres overnight
 

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151.340 - LNU-East
151.160 - tac-2
151.250 - tac-5
151.325 - lots of traffic - air command traffic
151.280 - air
151.265 - lots of traffic - air to St Helena HQ
 

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the traffic I'm hearing on 151.325 is for HUU air ops (Humboldt County)

Tankers 94 & 95 were turned back to Redding due to too thick smoke in the Ruth Lake area...they might try again later...

I heard reports via 2m Ham Radio that the Rocky fire has jumped Ca Hwy 20 & Ca Hwy 16 as of 16:40 hrs PDT...Air ops working Walker Ridge area of the Rocky Fire
 

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For the Rocky Fire:
Command on Cmd2 151.265 and Cmd11 151.1675
Ground tacs on vtac11-14, nifc tacs 1,3,3,5,6, calfire tac29
Air to Ground using calfire tac14, 159.225
Air Tankers FM are on 164.1375
Air Tankers and other fixed wing AM 120.275
Copters are on 118.025 (this is where the Guard copters would show up if on the fire)

One freq I follow religiously is the Natl Flight Follow freq of 168.650. The tankers and federal contract copters will all be here typically cruising between fires etc. There are numerous remote bases that North Ops and tanker bases can use on this freq, so it's used to divert tankers to other incidents mid-flight etc. Especially in this fire activity where there are lots of diverts it's a good way to keep tabs on aircraft movement and where the "higher-ups" brass are considering the most crucial risk fire in a particular moment (it changes every 10min depending on the latest intel).
 

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For the Rocky Fire:
Command on Cmd2 151.265 and Cmd11 151.1675
Ground tacs on vtac11-14, nifc tacs 1,3,3,5,6, calfire tac29
Air to Ground using calfire tac14, 159.225
Air Tankers FM are on 164.1375
Air Tankers and other fixed wing AM 120.275
Copters are on 118.025 (this is where the Guard copters would show up if on the fire)

One freq I follow religiously is the Natl Flight Follow freq of 168.650. The tankers and federal contract copters will all be here typically cruising between fires etc. There are numerous remote bases that North Ops and tanker bases can use on this freq, so it's used to divert tankers to other incidents mid-flight etc. Especially in this fire activity where there are lots of diverts it's a good way to keep tabs on aircraft movement and where the "higher-ups" brass are considering the most crucial risk fire in a particular moment (it changes every 10min depending on the latest intel).

Please see the thread I started with the title of "National Flight Following," also in the California forum as I have some questions and comments regarding this frequency. I created it as my discussion of this single frequency could get off topic from the scope of this thread, which is about the current northern California wildfires.
 
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