Hey all,
Does BCFS use 123.1 at all for wildfire ops?
I was out west of Calgary this morning and picked up some weak comms on the above frequency that were definitely wildfire related. It was recognizable as someone making a report in a tabulated format about a fire. It wasn't Alberta Agriculture & Forestry Wildfire Branch because they have a similar but different system.
What I'm used to hearing from Alberta crews is like this:
"Line 5: Today's date at this time" (5 = assessment time)
"Line 6: 0.01 hectares" (assessment size)
"Line 9: 51 degrees 12 minutes 34 seconds north" (lat)
"Line 10: 114 degrees 56 minutes 00 seconds west" (long)
"Line 12: Recreation" (general cause)
"Line 16: Abandoned fire" (true cause)
and etc.
What I heard today used Alpha/Bravo/Charlie/Delta/Echo (etc) prefixes instead of line numbers, but was otherwise similar (except it was not in the AgFor WB order either).
Any thoughts on what it could have been?
Does BCFS use 123.1 at all for wildfire ops?
I was out west of Calgary this morning and picked up some weak comms on the above frequency that were definitely wildfire related. It was recognizable as someone making a report in a tabulated format about a fire. It wasn't Alberta Agriculture & Forestry Wildfire Branch because they have a similar but different system.
What I'm used to hearing from Alberta crews is like this:
"Line 5: Today's date at this time" (5 = assessment time)
"Line 6: 0.01 hectares" (assessment size)
"Line 9: 51 degrees 12 minutes 34 seconds north" (lat)
"Line 10: 114 degrees 56 minutes 00 seconds west" (long)
"Line 12: Recreation" (general cause)
"Line 16: Abandoned fire" (true cause)
and etc.
What I heard today used Alpha/Bravo/Charlie/Delta/Echo (etc) prefixes instead of line numbers, but was otherwise similar (except it was not in the AgFor WB order either).
Any thoughts on what it could have been?