looking over the March 2020 Cal Fire mobile radio channel load
Dispatch Channels - typically are a repeater - sometimes are not - this is where fire stations get paged - and where personal pagers get activated - usually there is also field unit to dispatcher comms on this channel
Command Channels - typically the command channels are repeated channels - units assigned to an incident use the ops channel to talk to the dispatcher - [ exceptions - Santa Clara County Command 30 is not a repeater channel - Presidio Command Grey is simplex ]
Tac Channels - typically are simplex channels used for short range comms at incidents - [ there are some repeatered tac channels - Klamath - Truckee - SEKI Tac 3 ]
154.28 shows up 30 times in the document - some counties have the channel in the mobile radio load - some do not
BLM got a new channel in 2017 - SOA 2
Most Cal Fire Local channels show PL 0.0 on the input channel - but there are also some OST listings in this document - not sure why the Cal Fire Local Nets dont show as OST - unless they are actually using automatic steering / voting
Hollister City Tac 1 has a typo
Dispatch Channels - typically are a repeater - sometimes are not - this is where fire stations get paged - and where personal pagers get activated - usually there is also field unit to dispatcher comms on this channel
Command Channels - typically the command channels are repeated channels - units assigned to an incident use the ops channel to talk to the dispatcher - [ exceptions - Santa Clara County Command 30 is not a repeater channel - Presidio Command Grey is simplex ]
Tac Channels - typically are simplex channels used for short range comms at incidents - [ there are some repeatered tac channels - Klamath - Truckee - SEKI Tac 3 ]
154.28 shows up 30 times in the document - some counties have the channel in the mobile radio load - some do not
BLM got a new channel in 2017 - SOA 2
Most Cal Fire Local channels show PL 0.0 on the input channel - but there are also some OST listings in this document - not sure why the Cal Fire Local Nets dont show as OST - unless they are actually using automatic steering / voting
Hollister City Tac 1 has a typo