cousinkix1953
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Both the Loma and Toro repeaters were busy around lunch time on Saturday. I don't know what the game wardens were doing; but state park rangers were involved in major car chase in Santa Cruz...
CA State Parks/Fish n Game
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code3cowboy
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There have been several academy graduates assigned to the Redwoods recently. Several of the old salty guys were lifeguards in Orange County and went to the OC Regional Academy, and have since moved around throughout the state.
Ranger Base, Rescue Base, and Med Base are base stations out on the beach. They have base station radios, and signs and people and such, and people go to the bases for assistance as the only other places to go for help would be the park entry kiosks.
MDO is Montana De Oro State Park, part of the Morro Bay State Parks.
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Mount Diablo State Park
Does anyone have the frequency for the Mt. Diablo State Park Rangers? I believe it is in the 850 mHz area.
Neil Bell, KJ6FBA
Does anyone have the frequency for the Mt. Diablo State Park Rangers? I believe it is in the 850 mHz area.
Neil Bell, KJ6FBA
You might try 855.9625, WNFQ768 . I believe that used to be theirs.
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I show 855.9625 DPL 115, 856.9375 DPL 115, and 857.9375 DPL125 on the list that I have, as being on Diablo...
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Those are ON diablo, I think he wants used by Diablo rangers. The others are used by rangers in different parks.
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Brown on Diablo is used out in the Valley (east of Diablo basically) and Gold is for the North Bay (north and northwest of Diablo).
mmckenna
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Mt. Diablo Brown is for Capital District-Sacramento. KNEH765 856.9375 DPL 115
Mt. Diablo Gold is for Marin, Angel Island, China Camp and Olompoli. KNEH790 857.9375 DPL 115
I also see a Mt. Diablo Red repeater for Bay Area: Diablo/Silverado/Benicia units, KNCZ499, 855.9625 DPL 115.
This appears to be the one used by rangers on Mt. Diablo and some of the surrounding parks.
NorCom also has the following control stations on Diablo:
Brown: TX is on 811.9375, RX is on 856.9375
Gold: TX is on 812.9375, RX is on 857.9375
Mt. Diablo Gold is for Marin, Angel Island, China Camp and Olompoli. KNEH790 857.9375 DPL 115
I also see a Mt. Diablo Red repeater for Bay Area: Diablo/Silverado/Benicia units, KNCZ499, 855.9625 DPL 115.
This appears to be the one used by rangers on Mt. Diablo and some of the surrounding parks.
NorCom also has the following control stations on Diablo:
Brown: TX is on 811.9375, RX is on 856.9375
Gold: TX is on 812.9375, RX is on 857.9375
Wrong DPL. All the repeaters on Gold that serve the North Bay will output D125 with independent input DPL's.
mmckenna
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You are absolutely correct, I must have been reading the line above on my spreadsheet. Thanks for catching that!
State parks
Im in Yuma and the Black Mtn 800 repeater is loud and clear here. I get all the rangers working LE and EMS at Anza Borrego. Very busy. However they are also working a 800 repeater in sandiego County, lilely Monument or Cuamaca because of the size of the park and the fact the dispatcher is muti-selected: I hear her and the units and then just the dispatcher. Great listening. They also come over to RCS on occasion but Im not aware of a talkgroup they have assigned. They can be found on RCS MEDAIR, and County call often talking to CHP H60
The repeater is one of the best covering 800 conventionals I have ever herd easily covers from the mountains to the Colorado river where Pichaco Park is located.
I wonder if some of the traffic for F&G, or Parks may be found on CMARS? There may have been some recent changes. Parks personnel had no access to RCS a year ago acording to the Dispatcher at SURCOM. New radios perhaps?
Im in Yuma and the Black Mtn 800 repeater is loud and clear here. I get all the rangers working LE and EMS at Anza Borrego. Very busy. However they are also working a 800 repeater in sandiego County, lilely Monument or Cuamaca because of the size of the park and the fact the dispatcher is muti-selected: I hear her and the units and then just the dispatcher. Great listening. They also come over to RCS on occasion but Im not aware of a talkgroup they have assigned. They can be found on RCS MEDAIR, and County call often talking to CHP H60
The repeater is one of the best covering 800 conventionals I have ever herd easily covers from the mountains to the Colorado river where Pichaco Park is located.
I wonder if some of the traffic for F&G, or Parks may be found on CMARS? There may have been some recent changes. Parks personnel had no access to RCS a year ago acording to the Dispatcher at SURCOM. New radios perhaps?
code3cowboy
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Nope. CMARS is a pay to play system used mostly by CDC transports and "smaller" agencies. Never have I seen CMARS in a DPR radio.
Very few DFG trucks have 800mhz radios in them outside of the RCS OrCo and Sacramento systems.
As the times change more interoperability in the 700 and 800 bands may be the norm however DPR has historically not put much in their radios, we will see likely on a per park and as is often the case in parks and land management outfits, per radio and staffer.
I still have copies of pages given to DPR employees being trained to use the new 800 MHz system being installed in the early or mid 80's. There were channel plans for a couple of districts included and both showed CMARS channels. It was stated that these channels were to be used for communicating with other state agencies. Now 25 years have passed so they may not be doing that anymore.
The Bodie State Park channel plan includes some Caltrans frequencies, although I've never heard them use them. The law enforcement vehicles assigned to Bodie State Park and the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve have a VHF radio in them. This enables them to communicate with the USFS/BLM/DFG/CDF and local law enforcement. For the sake of rural parks its too bad that DPR could not find enough VHF frequencies to build their system as they would be able to communicate with a lot more agencies they deal with than 800 MHz allows.
I've got a few piles of papers I had to move quickly during our remodel that contain more current information about the state park radio system. I seem to remember CMARS being included on the channel plans. I will have to dig that stuff up one of these days.
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It's not in mine and it's the guide used to program radios. There's a Zone specific to mutual aid, which has all the standard MA channels, but no CMARS. Though what they do locally could be different; the standard is not to include them.
The DPR VHF load is a different story. It has CDF, Marine and other various stuff.
Not unexpectedly, there have been changes since the DPR changed over to 800 MHz. My impression, upon seeing those early channel plans, was they were attempting to put anything 800 in the radios as just having a district's repeater frequency pair and the direct for it was not utilizing the large capacity of the radio. I should say that some sectors of a district have separate repeater pairs in the more urban portions of the state. On the east and northern portions of the state it is one channel pair per district.
I really need to submit a database update for the DPR. There is a new frequency pair called "steel" being used in the Monterrey Bay/Big Sur area. I confirmed it with a license search that I did statewide. I had to drop that work, along with a lot of other activities, due to my family and household obligations of the last three years. The work I started on the DPR system may have pre-dated those three years.
Do other DPR districts have VHF radios installed in them as well? I know you are at least speaking about the northwest portion of the state, but would a vehicle in the Big Sur area have a VHF radio as well?
I remember Steel being used in the Russian River area, but if my memory is serving me correctly there were licenses for the same frequency pair in the Monterrey-Big Sur area. Someone sent me some official information about the DPR system 2-3 years ago. It was one of those anonymous mailings and I haven't finished my research using it as a guide. I will have to look at the database to see what changes have been made. I wish I had more to listen to on DPR frequencies as the two state park units located in Mono Country, Bodie State Park and the Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve are very quiet.
now Department of Fish and Wildlife
Not hugely significant in the grand scheme of things, but as of yesterday 1/1/13, the California Department of Fish and Game was renamed the "California Department of Fish and Wildlife."
"Traditionally known as game wardens, the department’s law enforcement staff will now be called wildlife officers."
Similar to the permissive change from CDF to CAL-FIRE, the enabling legislation for this mandatory change controls costs by prohibiting immediate changes to all the agency's signs, uniforms, and other materials.
Not hugely significant in the grand scheme of things, but as of yesterday 1/1/13, the California Department of Fish and Game was renamed the "California Department of Fish and Wildlife."
"Traditionally known as game wardens, the department’s law enforcement staff will now be called wildlife officers."
Similar to the permissive change from CDF to CAL-FIRE, the enabling legislation for this mandatory change controls costs by prohibiting immediate changes to all the agency's signs, uniforms, and other materials.
It's doubtful. The Zones are specific to up north.
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