151.280?

[K5MAR]

Anybody familiar with this frequency? I found it awhile back on the Incident Radio Communications Plan for the wildfire teams. It appears on 5 different licenses issued to the State of Olahoma, but I couldn't find it in the Oklahoma DB here.

1 KA5112 OKLAHOMA, STATE OF 0005780937 PW Active
Statewide mobile
2 KCK530 OKLAHOMA, STATE OF 0005780937 PW Active
State Forestry - Haskell, Pittsburg, Latimer (3 locations), LeFlore Counties
3 KKJ693 OKLAHOMA, STATE OF 0005780937 PW Active
State Forestry - Mayes & Atoka Counties
4 WDD555 OKLAHOMA, STATE OF 0005780937 PW Active
State Forestry - Cherokee (2 locations), Sequoyah, Adair & Deleware (2 locations) Counties
5 WPBC342 OKLAHOMA, STATE OF 0005780937 PW Active
State forestry - Statewide Temporary Fixed

I put it in my scanner, and the last couple of days I've heard obvious mobile traffic, possibly some of the fire crews staying in Stillwater. I logged a CTCSS tone of 131.8, but can't find anything in the state DB to submit it as an update to.

Mark S.

 

[fast2okc]

151.280MHz

Mark--

I think it is an input to one of the Forestry repeater pairs in SE Oklahoma. I have had it in my scanner in the metro for a while and I've never heard anything. The Forestry Dept has several pairs, so I'm not sure which output it is paired with.

--fast2okc

 

[K5MAR]

I thought it might be used as a repeater input from looking at the licenses, but in this case it was being used simplex. From the conversations heard, I'd guess it was a couple of vehicles looking for their hotel and meeting at a restaurant.

Nationwide, it seems to be a common forestry agency channel. It's licensed to many of the states in the South and Southeast such as South Carolina, which is where at least one of the wildfire crews staying here in town is from. So I don't know who I was hearing, state people or one of the visiting crews.

Wonder how much longer the out-of-state crews will be here? The intensity of the fires has come down dramatically, although the danger is still there. I imagine some of these people would like to go home, eventually. :lol:

Edit: Just heard a couple of units doing a radio check, NC2 checking with NC1, plus some idle chatter. The obvious guess would be North Carolina.

Mark S.

 

[CommShrek]

The out of state crews will stay as long as the IC says. Either that or one of the higher ups on a state level decides that they need to return. The wildfire danger still exists and we're actually coming into some of our most dangerous months. No one that I've talked to has indicated that the out of state crews would be leaving until this danger condition ceases to exist. A few good rain showers or thunderstorms will not send these fine folks packing. We're in a severe drought, records have been broken, DustBowl era records even and I think we're in this for the long haul. Some of the crews have been rotating out so a lot of the people do get to go home and are replaced by fresh crews.

The link below should help you. It will tell you how many acres are burned every day and also what else is going on.

http://www.oda.state.ok.us/forestry-fireupdates.htm