CZ
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What frequency is this? Heard CDF Dispatcher referring to it while putting a call out regarding a fire.
Also -- what is "Command two, tone one" frequency?
Also -- what is "Command two, tone one" frequency?
"Channel 28 In The Midland"
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CDF has a standard radio scheme they use statewide. If you poke around enough in Google, you can probably find the channel list for the CDF Midland radios.
Command 2 is 151.265
The "Tone 1" refers to CTCSS tone. CDF uses a standard set of CTCSS tones to access their repeaters. They have multiple repeaters on the same frequency to provide coverage, you use different tones to select which repeater to access.
A couple websites with CDF freqs and info on how they operate:
http://www.norcalscan.org/fire/cdf/index.htm
http://www.freqofnature.com/index.php?m=California&p=Forestry
Command 2 is 151.265
The "Tone 1" refers to CTCSS tone. CDF uses a standard set of CTCSS tones to access their repeaters. They have multiple repeaters on the same frequency to provide coverage, you use different tones to select which repeater to access.
A couple websites with CDF freqs and info on how they operate:
http://www.norcalscan.org/fire/cdf/index.htm
http://www.freqofnature.com/index.php?m=California&p=Forestry
CZ
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Still no luck on finding any info on how the Midland radios are set up for use by CDF.
Go to http://www.freqofnature.com/index.php?m=California&p=Forestry . They have the CDF radio plan with the Midland channel numbers.
Actually in reference to above post that is the Kenwood radio plan not Midland. In the 80 channel Midland channel 28 is Riverside Local west. In the 320 channel Midland (chief officer radio before getting Kenwoods) it is Command 2.
Thanks, you're right, it is for the Kenwoods, which I think are pretty much the standard radios in CDF engines now. Somewhere, I saw a JPG of the actual Midland frequency plan that was pasted to a CDF Midland radio but I can't find it now.
CZ
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bump! 
BirkenVogt
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I have here a 2002 call plan and it lists channel 28 as RRU West, 151.385/159.36...that is in the 80 channel mobile
The channel numbers for the 320 channel "Chief Officer" mobiles were seldom called out over the air since those radios were alphanumeric...and the users generally had more depth of knowledge so they could use their book to figure out what channel to bring up.
I am surprised you heard it at all, all the radios in the engines have been Kenwoods for several years now...maybe it was a reserve engine that escaped conversion but just the same I am surprised the ECC still had it on record.
Birken
The channel numbers for the 320 channel "Chief Officer" mobiles were seldom called out over the air since those radios were alphanumeric...and the users generally had more depth of knowledge so they could use their book to figure out what channel to bring up.
I am surprised you heard it at all, all the radios in the engines have been Kenwoods for several years now...maybe it was a reserve engine that escaped conversion but just the same I am surprised the ECC still had it on record.
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