Bastrop County Hidden Pines Fire

blantonl · Oct 15, 2015

Can anyone in the area advise what frequencies and talk-groups are in use to fight this fire in Bastrop County?

I know that Bastrop County is now using the GATTRS system:

Greater Austin/Travis Regional Radio System (GATRRS) Trunking System, Austin, Texas - Scanner Frequencies

Anyone have info for VHF Air "Air Tac" and other?

I'm thinking about deploying a feed appliance up there to cover the fire operations.

Thanks,

nd5y · Oct 15, 2015

I would check
122.925 TFS air-to-air primary (also the contact frequency listed on the FAA TFR)
135.675 TFS air-to-air secondary S TX zone
159.300 PL 114.8 TFS air-to-ground primary

Myles · Oct 15, 2015

Bastrop should have a TFS repeater on 159.330 with PL 186.2.
Been listening from Houston but too far away with low altitude of aircraft.
Curious if agencies are using 700 or 800 TAC simplex TAC channels to coordinate.

rbarker · Oct 16, 2015

I've been trying to listen from Austin. I just know there are many talkgroups that are not identified.

bpckty1 · Oct 16, 2015

Heard static filled comms on 154.295, TX Fire 3, Wednesday evening. All I could capture was the signal. Voice was not understandable. Heard from far W. Harris County. Could be Bastrop related.

Myles · Oct 16, 2015

Heard Tanker 912 leaving Austin for Chatanooga. Talking on 168.650 PL 110.9. Think that might be a first for me.

KevinC · Oct 16, 2015

135.675 is also in use.

mikebennett · Oct 17, 2015

Myles said:
Heard Tanker 912 leaving Austin for Chatanooga. Talking on 168.650 PL 110.9. Think that might be a first for me.

I caught this on my logging program on 10-16-15 at 6:29 PM up here in Sherman. He ID'd as Tanker 912 and was calling "Range Control".

jhooten · Oct 17, 2015

GATRRS 5664 is active as I type this
Smithville fire
VTAC channels for LE
VFIRE

However, from the amount of radio chatter you are hearing you would be hard pressed to know an incident of this size is in progress.

Russell · Oct 20, 2015

jhooten said:
GATRRS 5664 is active as I type this
Smithville fire
VTAC channels for LE
VFIRE

However, from the amount of radio chatter you are hearing you would be hard pressed to know an incident of this size is in progress.

Make sure you've got both tower 40 (Bastrop simulcast) and tower 7 programmed for GATRRS traffic in Bastrop County. I would expect most traffic on the simulcast layer but you never know.

Russell

TLF82 · Oct 22, 2015

VTAC 17 is being used a lot. Some other simplex VFIRE as well. They were using Bastrop SO2 some but I've not listened to it in a few days to see if its still being used/patched into LCRA.

TLF82 · Oct 22, 2015

Very little of the radio traffic is on GATRRS.

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