California Brush fires Firescope Statewide Channel plan...

[Uplink]

For those interested in wildfire monitoring, this is the Firescope Statewide Channel plan I extracted this from the FIRESCOPE California Radio Communications Guidelines document...

154.2800 WHITE 1
154.2650 WHITE 2
154.2950 WHITE 3
156.0750 CALCORD
155.7525 VCALL
151.1375 VTAC1
154.4525 VTAC2
158.7375 VTAC3
159.4725 VTAC4
154.1600 OES 1
154.2200 OES 2
153.7550 CESRS
151.3550 CDF C1
151.2650 CDF C2
151.3400 CDF C3
151.4000 CDF C4
151.3700 CDF C5
151.2500 CDF C6
151.4600 CDF C7
151.4450 CDF C8
151.1750 CDF C9
151.1900 CDF C10
151.1450 CDF T1
151.1600 CDF T2
151.1750 CDF T3
151.1900 CDF T4
151.2500 CDF T5
151.3250 CDF T6
151.3400 CDF T7
151.3700 CDF T8
151.3850 CDF T9
151.4000 CDF T10
151.4450 CDF T11
151.4600 CDF T12
151.4750 CDF T13
159.2250 CDF T14
159.2700 CDF T15
159.2850 CDF T16
159.3150 CDF T17
159.3450 CDF T18
159.3600 CDF T19
159.3750 CDF T20
159.3900 CDF T21
159.4050 CDF T22
159.4500 CDF T23
168.7000 NIFC C1
168.1000 NIFC C2
168.0750 NIFC C3
166.6125 NIFC C4
167.1000 NIFC C5
168.4750 NIFC C6
162.9625 NIFC C7
168.0500 NIFC T1
168.2000 NIFC T2
168.6000 NIFC T3
164.1375 NIFC T4
166.7250 NIFC T5
166.7750 NIFC T6
168.2500 NIFC T7
173.9125 FSR5 T4
173.9625 FSR5 T5
173.9875 FSR5 T6
168.6250 AIRGUARD
170.0000 FS A/G
167.9500 BLM A/G
151.2200 CDF A/G
168.3500 168.350 FED
163.1000 163.100 FED
168.5500 168.550 FED
453.2125 UCALL
453.4625 UTAC1
453.7125 UTAC2
453.8625 UTAC3
866.0125 ICALL
866.5125 ITAC1
867.0125 ITAC2
867.5125 ITAC3
868.0125 ITAC4
868.9875 FIREMARS
866.9125 FIREMARS 2

happy monitoring

 

[PJaxx]

For those interested in wildfire monitoring, this is the Firescope Statewide Channel plan I extracted this from the FIRESCOPE California Radio Communications Guidelines document issued March of this year

Good list, sir. And other usage and guideline information in that document that's of value to scanner listeners too, at http://www.firescope.org/macs-docs/MACS-441-1.pdf

 

[Mick]

That one is dated March 2007, here's one dated July 2007. Will attach. I just tried, and got:
Your file of 231.0 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 195.3 KB for this filetype. I can email it to anyone who would like it.

Good list, sir. And other usage and guideline information in that document that's of value to scanner listeners too, at http://www.firescope.org/macs-docs/MACS-441-1.pdf

 

[spock00]

Heard some interesting fire comms on 163.100 as mentioned earlier. Sounded like travel chatter...

 

[gmclam]

Just zip it for us please

That one is dated March 2007, here's one dated July 2007. Will attach. I just tried, and got:
Your file of 231.0 KB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 195.3 KB for this filetype. I can email it to anyone who would like it.

Why not ZIP it and post it for all? Thanks.

 

[Mick]

I'm not that computer savvy. Anyone that wants it can receive it by email though.

Why not ZIP it and post it for all? Thanks.

 

[SkipSanders]

Zip does no good in the case of pdf files. It 'compresses' this 232 Kb file to 220 Kb. pdf is a binary format that doesn't compress well.

Here's a link to the July 2007 Firescope document. Please be gentle, it's not a heavy usage site. <grin>

http://home.san.rr.com/skip/FirescopeJuly2007.pdf

Or, just http://home.san.rr.com/skip/ to get high quality pdf San Diego PD and FD Beat Map and Fire Battalion Maps.

 

[Uplink]

Looks like both documents have the same frequency list above.

 

[trooperdude]

The FOG Guide is an interesting read as well, but only if you have broadband.

 

[brandon]

Is there a document with all these narrowband freqs in the 163-174 MHz range? I never see them listed but it appears most of the good fire traffic pops up on oddball freqs. Assuming the radios are preprogrammed with them or do they just key them in as needed?

 

[Uplink]

Is there a document with all these narrowband freqs in the 163-174 MHz range? I never see them listed but it appears most of the good fire traffic pops up on oddball freqs. Assuming the radios are preprogrammed with them or do they just key them in as needed?

I wondered the same thing, but then I spoke to a Communications Unit Leader with the Las Padres National Forest and he explained that a call is made to the communications duty officer, who then checks other fires in the area (to insure no interference) and assigns frequencies from a pool of available frequencies in the area from other agencies such as DEA, BLM, FS, etc. and other fedral agencies. So it's hard to know what they will come up with in advance, depends on whats available and the area the fire is in.

 

[Markb]

I was told that the frequencies stay the same for a given fire season, but I'm not positive.
I posted this question to a yahoogroup I belong to the other day as well as speaking to some comm folks and they told me the same thing that Uplink said. It seems kinda funky because you can't really program these frequencies into a radio ahead of time, so Motorola and other radios can be useless in many cases, unless you tote around a laptop.
Here on the Santiago Fire, they have a C-21 repeater sitting at the Comm Unit. They haven't needed it, but it's here. I don't recall ever seeing a C-21 before.........