Alberta FireNet Repeater Sites in Google Maps

[Jay911]

FireNet Repeaters - Google Maps

The above is a Google Maps link to all the currently listed FireNet repeaters in Alberta.

Each point on the map has a link showing the site name, FireNet channel number (if I know it), frequencies, and CTCSS tones (if I know them). Sites where there are more than one repeater at a location have different icons for each repeater site to try to make them a little more visible.

If you have any updates to the info (FN numbers or tone values), please reply to this thread. I'll be updating the map when I can, and submitting it all to the RRDB as time permits.

 

[MrVelvet]

Thanks Jay - any chance you could provide a Google Earth file as well?

 

[Jay911]

You should be able to make a KML file right from Google Maps - on my screen, I saw "View in Google Earth" which wrote a KML file to my downloads directory, which you could then load in Earth.

In any case I need to download the data myself - forgot to send it home so I could create a Favorites file for the HomePatrol. So I'll try to post a KML shortly.

 

[Jay911]

Here:

 

[MrVelvet]

Thanks Jay.

Although it looks like either way that file is still dynamic and pointing back to the original online Google Maps file and not simply a stand alone file.

 

[Jay911]

I noticed that, and I'm sorry but I have no idea how to rectify that. The last time I created something like this in Maps or Earth, it wrote a proper KML file.

I have the manually-written KML I used to make the Google Maps version, but it's not on my home machine. I'll try to send it to you when I can.

 

[harryshute]

Jay thanks very much. You've given me an east to follow project to try and identify fire net frequencies in my area. I wasn't even aware of Bruderheim which has been a hot spot in the past.

 

[Jay911]

Try this one, MrVelvet. This is what I originally created the Maps data with. The data was pulled from TAFL into Excel, manipulated a bit, formatted per KML schema, then copy&pasted to a text file and saved with a .kml extension. It did import the file from Windows to Maps just fine.

I also figured out the tone (186.2) for FN242 Porcupine tonight. I was on the Cochrane hill with an external antenna - my two options were Falls (near Rocky Mountain House) or Porcupine (on the Skyline Ranch, west of Claresholm) - and since I was hearing RCMP A10 from High River at the time, I figure that Porcupine is the right one.

 

[Jay911]

Updated some more tones today. They're posted on the google map - I'll get around to submitting them to the DB soon.

 

[Jay911]

All the FireNet stuff I have located and/or identified is now in the database, thanks to mcuipa (for entering the 100+ towers I submitted).

 

[harryshute]

Stony Plain Ch 216 152.705 Tone 162.2 is now active west of Edmonton.

 

[uriedog]

What is the source for all these? I noticed that some of the place markers don't jive with the column on the left (in google maps) Also i have a few listings can't remember where I got them. But they are different freq. then what you have posted

 

[robertmac]

What are the frequencies

If the frequencies differ, what are they? Jay911 frequencies are as accurate as I have seen recently. There are still some old frequencies on the books but are seldom if ever used these days.

 

[kayn1n32008]

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A lot of this data is pulled from TAFL, and been confirmed by Jay911, amongst others. As Robertmac stated most of the stuff Jay911 has is quite accurate.

 

[uriedog]

166.17000* BFMR 173.8 PL FN 108 Firenet 108 (Tent Ridge)*


Anyone got a tone for this one? or could it be an old freq.

 

[harryshute]

If you are asking what the tone of the new Tent Ridge repeater I believe it is 162.2 Ch 207 152.570. Not sure how many of the simplex 100 series channels are used now that they have repeaters.

 

[Jay911]

The 100s aren't/weren't simplex. There are still a handful in operation in this area, but most of them have been canceled in favor of the 200 series.

 

[uriedog]

Ok. so looking at the google map. Most of their repeaters are PL 162.2 so it is probably safe to assume that it is. But I thought I read somewhere here that the TX is normally the lower frequency?

Tent Ridge
Rx 152.57
Tx 157.83
PL unknown.

Thanks in advance for your help guys. Important for me to get the info. I do allot of skiing in that area, and some mode of contact is very important. cell phones are useless.

 

[harryshute]

Yes the lower frequency would be recieve (repeater) as in 152.570.

Another simple way to figure it out is Channels 201 to 216 use sixteen repeaters with a Tone of 162.2. 217 to 232 the same repeaters with as Tone of 173.8 and 233 to 248 the same frequencies with a tone of 186.2

And yes Fireline channels 1 to 50 were repeaters using 17 frequencies reused with various PL tones. The 100 series numbers were simplex with 7 frequencies using various tones. They were labeled 101 to 123.

 

[Jay911]

Down south here, 1 thru 50 are the simplex frequencies, 17 freqs re-used with CTCSS 100.0, 88.5, 123.0, 136.5, 151.4, and 162.2.

Channels 103, 107, 112, 118, 129, and 132 are repeaters which are still in use to this day, alongside 202, 209, 222, 225, 231, 246, and etc.