I know it is a bit early, however looking toward the 2021 fire season, just wondering if anyone has heard of or speculates any CAL FIRE channel/frequencies changes?
Do they usually make changes to Cal Fire radios at these? That sounds like a mess, because of all the mutual aid they receive nation wide.I know it is a bit early, however looking toward the 2021 fire season, just wondering if anyone has heard of or speculates any CAL FIRE channel/frequencies changes?
I know it is a bit early, however looking toward the 2021 fire season, just wondering if anyone has heard of or speculates any CAL FIRE channel/frequencies changes?
Do they usually make changes to Cal Fire radios at these? That sounds like a mess, because of all the mutual aid they receive nation wide.
Do they usually make changes to Cal Fire radios at these? That sounds like a mess, because of all the mutual aid they receive nation wide.
It's very clean, actually. Changes and updates, if any, are done annually. Any out-of-state resources (and in-state, for that matter) have their radios cloned with the current comm plan at the incident. Those that don't have BK radios are able to check them out as well.
That information is still current. Incoming resources can always send a rep to the Comm Unit and get a clone for his/her radio and then clone the rest of their crew/strike team. Single Resources, such as myself, can get a 215 from the Comm Unit or anyone that has a current IAP. If it's immediate need order, I'll try to find a copy of the IAP on the ftp site and at least get command and A2G freq's.
Can anyone comment on how, in general, CALFIRE radios are programmed? How many zones, what they are named and what they generally contain?
Here's a screenshot of last year's zone organization.
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With the newer Relm M150 and P150's, they have plenty of room now to rethink the "calfire/state load." Each Unit is responsible for sending to Sac what they'd like in their zone, and what they feel is needed for IA within their zone. It goes into the master build and thus everyone gets to benefit from that local knowledge. So you tune to Zone 25 TGU, and there's 58 channels in there with TGU's IA load, extended attack load, bunch of local govt freqs/tacs, local law RX, neighboring USFS etc. Not only great for mutual aid IA, but also move up and covering distant Units. Zones 51-54 are front-panel-programmable by the mic keypad, cloned for incidents, and act as a dynamic command group like the older BK CMD radios.
I have the dat. file is anyone needs it.