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For USCG we had a boat @ Powell. Since NPS taken over patrol & law enforcement, the USCG boat returned back to service in San Diego.
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For USCG we had a boat @ Powell. Since NPS taken over patrol & law enforcement, the USCG boat returned back to service in San Diego.
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I already made a mistake on one ADFFM frequency so I double checked this one a couple of times. My information shows a state repeater on White Tanks, the output is 154.695 pl 103.5. This means you could have typed a transposition of .965 from .695. Could you double check? I just did a quick FCC license search and 154.965 has been licensed to the "City of Fort McDowell" for at least 20 years and used for repeater output.
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Evacuation orders issued for Cave Creek. We finally turned on our TV here. Reports of several homes on fire. I hate this, I went through this enough times in California.
My late Hubby was a stickler for defensible space, his nickname in our area was, drum role now, "the tree killer." His biggest fear, however, was the manzanita. He cut some trees down and removed brush around the home my parents and I live in now. This was some 20 years ago after my parents moved here. The neighbors didn't understand our motivation for it at all . . . . clueless at the time or thought it overkill. The Rodeo-Chediski Fire hadn't happened yet, but that didn't seem to raise awareness all that much at the time, but the Wallow Fire had some of them starting to think. My dear Daddy was only 73 then and served as my love's "saw swamper." He was helping Hubby watching the trees very intensely, getting wedges, pounding wedges, helping limb the logs, getting gas and oil and being very helpful. He insisted on cutting a few himself. He had only been retired for 13 years and was missing cutting some trees on a fire now and again. By the way, if anyone is keeping track, he started permanent with the USFS in 1951, not 1941, he would have only been 14 if he started in 41. He started in 1949 as a seasonal right after college.
My late Hubby was a stickler for defensible space, his nickname in our area was, drum role now, "the tree killer." His biggest fear, however, was the manzanita. He cut some trees down and removed brush around the home my parents and I live in now. This was some 20 years ago after my parents moved here. The neighbors didn't understand our motivation for it at all . . . . clueless at the time or thought it overkill. The Rodeo-Chediski Fire hadn't happened yet, but that didn't seem to raise awareness all that much at the time, but the Wallow Fire had some of them starting to think. My dear Daddy was only 73 then and served as my love's "saw swamper." He was helping Hubby watching the trees very intensely, getting wedges, pounding wedges, helping limb the logs, getting gas and oil and being very helpful. He insisted on cutting a few himself. He had only been retired for 13 years and was missing cutting some trees on a fire now and again. By the way, if anyone is keeping track, he started permanent with the USFS in 1951, not 1941, he would have only been 14 if he started in 41. He started in 1949 as a seasonal right after college.
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FT Mc Dowell uses Trunking for fire & law enforcement. VHF will most likely not be renewed after current license expires.
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Thanks!
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And thank you clover and KD7, more confirmations of the listings.
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Yes, the AZ DFFM repeater should be 154.6950 MHz, PL 103.5. I apparently transposed numbers again. My apologies and thanks for the opportunity to correct!
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ADFFM just dispatched a vegetation fire at I-17/Sunset Point. I have no more info yet
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ADFFM Repeater 1 151.400 162.2 PL, BLM 172.525, NIFC Phoenix Zone 6 Air to Ground #3 168.825, and Air to Air #1 120.825 are active today.
ADOT responding for shutting down I-17 setting up a detour at Bumblebee. AzWins ADOT Roadway talkgroup 1102 and DPS District 12 talkgroup 1057.
ADOT responding for shutting down I-17 setting up a detour at Bumblebee. AzWins ADOT Roadway talkgroup 1102 and DPS District 12 talkgroup 1057.
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BLW-WF-C 172.550 IS TALKING ABOUT IT.
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Phoenix Fire A10 151.370 is active with Black Canyon City resources.
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The info I have shows Phoenix Dispatch Air to Ground #3 as 166.8250 (not 168.8250), with the national channel assignment of A/G 27. Has something changed?
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What is "BLW-WF-C?"
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BLM C = Phx BLM White Tanks & Horsethief main sites
Also A, B & D for other parts where BLM land is. California uses USFS numbering Ch1 - 6. Different in AZ
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Sorry, typo. The correct frequency is 166.8250. Thanks catching that!
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Oh! So the "BLW" was BLM with an upside down M! The "WF", does that stand for "Wild Fire" or did you mean to type "WT" for White Tanks? Also, you typed "172.5500" and I don't have that listing, I have 172.5250. Is my listing incorrect?
I've not heard of a letter designation for the 5 different repeater pairs in Arizona. At one time, quite a few years ago, I think before the narrowband requirements took place in 2005, the BLM had a statewide frequency plan with the Northern California District on 166.375, the Bakersfield District on 166.4875 and the California Desert District on 166.375 again. Between simplex and repeater I think they had CH 1/2 Northern CA, 3/4 Bakersfield and 5/6 CA Desert. However, with the introduction of programmable radios in the late 80's this wasn't the case anymore. Northern CA was assigned two repeater pairs, fire and admin, the Bakersfield District became the Central California District, picked up the Ukiah Field Office and now has 2 repeater pairs, one fire and one admin, as well as Field Office nets for the "Mother Lode Field Office" (old Folsom Field Office) and for the Bishop Field Office.
Back to Arizona, I've not seen an official listing with those A, B & D designators. I'm going to post a thread to get confirmation for the Arizona BLM. I show an output frequency of 173.8250 for the Arizona Strip District, Yuma Field Office of the Colorado River District and the Gila District (both field offices). Each has a different input frequency for those locations. Then I show 170.5125 out/164.2500 in for the Kingman Field Office of the Colorado River District. The Lake Havasu Field Office of the Colorado River District uses 169.7750 out/165.075 in. Finally, the Phoenix District (both field offices) uses 172.5250 out/163.0375 in. For Phoenix the info shows repeaters at Horsethief, Williams Mesa, White Tanks (hub remote base), Oatman, Vekol and Childs. Statewide the total is 31 repeaters and 6 remote bases.
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I'd like to get confirmation of these BLM law enforcement channels:
165.6000 P25 NAC 430
169.8000 P25 NAC 455
170.0250 P25 NAC 656 (Most active)
All have had at least some encryption of mobile/portable radios, although not all of the BLM LEO's use it. The base seems to be in the clear full time.
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165.6000 P25 NAC 430
169.8000 P25 NAC 455
170.0250 P25 NAC 656 (Most active)
All have had at least some encryption of mobile/portable radios, although not all of the BLM LEO's use it. The base seems to be in the clear full time.
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Seems like this should be put in another thread. I don't have time right now to start the "BLM Arizona Frequency Confirmation" thread I plan on. Maybe a moderator can move this over to such a thread.
The only frequency I have a record of is 169.8000, which late Hubby had programmed into a bunch of files. It shows as "BLM National LE Tac." I don't know where he got this one either, but he shows 171.6250 as BLM Phoenix LE. The 165.6000 should be a repeater input per the new 2019 VHF band allocation. It doesn't mean that it is being used as such as the Dept of the Interior seems to be behind on that. Hubby's notebooks have some information on a Phoenix law enforcement dispatch center, that is not located with the Phoenix Interagency Dispatch Center out at the Mesa airport. From notes he left they are doing all the BLM LE dispatching in AZ & NM, via a satellite radio system. I can't hear much from the BLM up here, so I rely on others to post their obs.
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Busy, busy, busy, huh! I heard traffic for the Sawtooth Fire yesterday on the Mesa Ranger District. The latest official update has it at 3,500 acres. It is lightning caused and down on the west slope of Sawtooth Ridge. It has that big fire from last year to its east/northeast so might not be that hard to control. None of these Phoenix area fires have higher than a Type III team on them, so they haven't gone national yet. A bummer about the structures lost on the Ocotillo Fire, 20 is what I read somewhere this morning. Wildland-urban interface strikes again.
The Apache-Sitgreaves had a couple of small fires near Promontory yesterday. Both show up as human caused on the Southwest GACC daily report this morning, one listed as a escaped campfire on the Show Low IDC dispatch log.
I'm hearing more traffic in relation to orders being placed/filled for the Sawtooth Fire. Right now some resources coming from other areas of Arizona.
The Apache-Sitgreaves had a couple of small fires near Promontory yesterday. Both show up as human caused on the Southwest GACC daily report this morning, one listed as a escaped campfire on the Show Low IDC dispatch log.
I'm hearing more traffic in relation to orders being placed/filled for the Sawtooth Fire. Right now some resources coming from other areas of Arizona.
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