Bitterroot National Forest Radio Frequencies

[Helitac]

The following frequencies are current Bitterroot National Forest Freqiemcoes for 2009. You may want to program them into your radio as the fire season begins to heat up.

BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST FREQUENCY LIST 2009

GROUP 1 Bitterroot National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 BRF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
2 BRF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 HELLS ½ ACRE 169.17500 169.97500 136.5 Narrow
6 TEPEE RPTR 168.75000 168.15000 136.5 Narrow
7 LOOKOUT RPTR168.75000 168.15000 146.2 Narrow
8 Emergency/RCSO 156.22500 156.22500 67.0 Wide
RCSO = Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office
9 SPOT RPTR 168.75000 168.15000 156.7 Narrow
10 WARD RPTR N 169.62500 168.15000 167.9 Narrow
11 GOLD (Montana) 153.90500 153.90500 000.0 Wide Montana Common
12 RED (Montana) 154.07000 154.07000 000.0 Wide Montana Common
13 All Valley 154.44500 154.44500 000.0 Wide Bitterroot Valley Fire Depts
14 BRF A/G1 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow A/G = Air to Ground
15 BRF A/G2 173.78750 173.78750 000.0 Narrow
16 WEATHER 162.40000 000.00000 000.0 Narrow

GROUP 2 Bitterroot National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 A/G 2 173.78750 173.78750 000.0 Narrow
2 WEATHER 162.40000 000.00000 000.0 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 BRF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
6 BRF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
7 RCSO North 156.22500 158.91000 167.9 Wide
8 RCSO East 156.22500 158.91000 141.3 Wide
9 RCSO West 156.22500 158.91000 131.8 Wide
10 Travel 1 163.71250 163.71250 000.0 Narrow
11 Travel 2 168.61250 168.61250 000.0 Narrow

GROUP 4 Mutual Aid
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 All Valley Direct 154.44500 154.44500 000.0 Wide
2 RED 154.07000 154.07000 000.0 Wide
3 GOLD 153.90500 153.90500 000.0 Wide
4 BNF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
5 BIT SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
6 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
7 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
8 BRF A/G1 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow
9 BRF A/G2 173.78750 173.78750 000.0 Narrow
10 SCARLET 154.29500 154.29500 000.0 Wide
11 CORAL 154.26500 154.26500 000.0 Wide
12 MAROON 154.28000 154.28000 000.0 Wide
13 All Valley RPTR 154.44500 155.89500 151.4 Wide



GROUP 5 Salmon National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 SALMON 172.27500 172.27500 103.5 Narrow
2 LONG TOM 172.27500 164.50000 123.0 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 BNF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
6 BNF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
7 HORSE CR 172.27500 164.50000 100.0 Narrow
8 STEIN MT 172.27500 164.50000 146.2 Narrow
11 BNF A/G1 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow
13 Salmon TAC 171.52500 171.52500 000.0 Narrow
14 Salmon A/G 172.40000 172.40000 000.0 Narrow

GROUP 6 Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 DILL PRI 171.42500 171.42500 131.8 Narrow
2 EMERINE 171.00000 170.35000 146.2 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 BNF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
6 BNF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
7 B-D PROJ 170.50000 170.50000 000.0 Narrow
8 TIE CR 171.42500 172.32500 136.5 Narrow
9 DEAD H 171.42500 172.32500 167.9 Narrow
11 BNF A/G1 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow
14 B-D A/G 169.87500 169.87500 000.0 Narrow
15 DNRC 151.17500 151.17500 000.0 Wide
DNRC = MT State Forestry

GROUP 7 Clearwater/Nez Perce National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 MOOSE CR 168.67500 168.67500 000.0 Narrow
2 BEAR MT 171.57500 172.37500 136.5 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 BNF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
6 BNF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
11 BNF A/G 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow
14 NEZ A/G 164.86250 164.86250 000.0 Narrow

GROUP 8 Lolo National Forest
Ch Label Receive Transmit Tone Mode
1 MIDC PRI 171.47500 171.47500 141.3 Narrow
2 CIN RPTR 164.70000 164.10000 131.8 Narrow
3 TAC 2 168.20000 168.20000 000.0 Narrow
4 TAC 3 168.60000 168.60000 000.0 Narrow
5 BNF NO 169.62500 169.62500 146.2 Narrow
6 BNF SO 168.75000 168.75000 131.8 Narrow
11 BNF A/G 170.75000 170.75000 000.0 Narrow
12 MSO DNRC 151.26500 151.26500 141.3 Wide
MSO = Missoula
14 LOLO A/G 164.82500 164.82500 000.0 Narrow

 

[SCPD]

Did you get this information off the Internet or somewhere else I can take a look at? This is good stuff and I would like to see it in its original format. Good catch! Thanks.

EDIT** It is interesting to see that there are several repeaters on the northern portion of the Forest and only one on the southern portion. My memory of the Bitterroot is that the southern end of the Forest is more rugged than the north. I would like to drive the Magruder road one of these days and monitor all these frequencies while doing so.

EDIT TWO*** I took a look at your profile. Never mind my question about the source. I applied for a job, I think on the Spotted Bear Ranger District, many years ago. It was, and is possibly the last, in and out Ranger District. This is where the District Office has a winter location in town and is moved to a distant location during the summer. The Spotted Bear RD moves back into Hungry Horse for the winter. The best of these in and outs was the Moose Creek RD on the Nezperce. It was in Grangeville, upstairs in the Post Office building, and then moved out to the Moose Creek Ranger Station for the summer, located quite some distance inside the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. They put the filing cabinets and everything else in DC-3's and flew to the dirt strip next to the station. I applied for a job there also, but was selected for a position somewhere else first.

The above observations are by memory only, I haven't looked up my old files on all of this for quite some time, so I may have some of the details wrong.

 

[Wilrobnson]

7 RCSO North 156.22500 158.91000 167.9 Wide
8 RCSO East 156.22500 158.91000 141.3 Wide
9 RCSO West 156.22500 158.91000 131.8 Wide

Thanks for those. I was looking for the new RCSO lineup. I tried a public records request and got told to go away; it was a threat to public safety to release them.

 

[Helitac]

Ex Smokey - This list came from an individual inside the Bitterroot National Forest. I re-wrote it in MS Word in hopes of posting it to RR in a column format . . . didn't work as anticipated.

You're right about the BRF South being more rugged. Repeaters on Hells 1/2 acre/Tepee/Lookout provide additional coverage. Also, as crews lose contact with BRF, they usually can hit either the Salmon or Clearwater/Nez Perce.

Spotted Bear / Glacier View / Hungry Horse Districts all have a new office complex about .25 miles from the old office buildings.

 

[kb9ora]

Thanks guys for posting these for me.

 

[ecps92]

I just created a WIKI for Bitterroot NF.

Any Confirmations on the channels [based on a 2010 channel plan]
please pass along. :lol:

Thanks guys for posting these for me.