I live in DuPage County, what I have for fireground red is 153.8300. My question is how come when ever I hear them say "all companies switch to fireground red and acknowledge when on scene" i switch over to what i have programmed for fireground red from DuCom i cant hear anything? Much help would be appreciated.
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My personal reason would be because FG-RED-153.83 like white and blue are SIMPLEX and a rubber duck on a H/H will not cut it. I have three scanner antennas about 35' up on my tower and usually only the Channel Master 5094A tri-band with 9913 low loss coax if im lucky will hear it....If i choose to get near the action sceene then it comes in great....My Opinion after listening for forty years on scanners
kc8syo
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Thats probably a simplex frequency you would have to be close to monitor it
thanks for the info. i was about to give up on it until i asked the question and got it answered. a day later at an assisted living facility had an apartment fire about half a mile away and i picked up the chief and once in awhile the firefighters doing their firefighter thing. thanks for the help
RADIOGUY2002
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make sure you monitor the others as well, they have a tendency to use blue and white more then red in du-comm towns. They usually use red when outside towns of dupage come in. However, with other towns purchasing newer radios ht1250's etc they have more fg options. FG- can be a pain in general with a antenna at 36 feet in the air and a base setup. Its a hit or miss thing.
make sure you monitor the others as well, they have a tendency to use blue and white more then red in du-comm towns. They usually use red when outside towns of dupage come in. However, with other towns purchasing newer radios ht1250's etc they have more fg options. FG- can be a pain in general with a antenna at 36 feet in the air and a base setup. Its a hit or miss thing.
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Fireground red
you must be within 2 to 3 blocks of the scene to pick up any trafic fireground red has a small freequency range so next time you hear that try and go to the scene and get as close as you can and listen you shoud be able to pick it up.
you must be within 2 to 3 blocks of the scene to pick up any trafic fireground red has a small freequency range so next time you hear that try and go to the scene and get as close as you can and listen you shoud be able to pick it up.
acepilot340
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Jimmy hit it right on the head.
You must be basically on the scene in order to hear anything.
You must be basically on the scene in order to hear anything.
Most portable radios are 5 watts. 2-3 blocks is awfully small. 1/2mile is more accurate . All departmens have the Red White and Blue FG. Red is primary and if ducomm knows another town is using it they will have the other departments use white or blue
the pl is on the TX side the radios are still Carrier on the RX per mabas
Living on the west side of Joliet sometimes when Lockport moves to FG-RED using my RS groundplane up 35' on the tower i hear the FG-RED from some vehicles.....Hill to Hill which is about 4mi.....
Its a KISS channel...
The whole idea of a fireground channel is:
1. NO high powered transmitters off the incident scene- If I call Mayday or for more pressure on a line, my little portable doesn't have to compete with a mobile 5 miles away (that can't hear me), or a base 20 miles away (that can't hear me either).
2. No infrastructure, no repeaters, no digital, no trunking, etc. Just plain old vanilla analog from me to you within a 200 yard area with few point of failure. CTCSS is now universally deployed, so it can be used on rx to reduce interference.
3. Reuse of the same channel 10 miles away because of 1 and 2, above.
If you can hit your target receiver with a rock, use fireground. If you need to talk to someone miles away, use your command channel. If you are doing operations, use fireground and don't worry about anyone off-site walking on you. If you're Command, remember that every white helmet comes with a radio for each hand.
The whole idea of a fireground channel is:
1. NO high powered transmitters off the incident scene- If I call Mayday or for more pressure on a line, my little portable doesn't have to compete with a mobile 5 miles away (that can't hear me), or a base 20 miles away (that can't hear me either).
2. No infrastructure, no repeaters, no digital, no trunking, etc. Just plain old vanilla analog from me to you within a 200 yard area with few point of failure. CTCSS is now universally deployed, so it can be used on rx to reduce interference.
3. Reuse of the same channel 10 miles away because of 1 and 2, above.
If you can hit your target receiver with a rock, use fireground. If you need to talk to someone miles away, use your command channel. If you are doing operations, use fireground and don't worry about anyone off-site walking on you. If you're Command, remember that every white helmet comes with a radio for each hand.
Along with that fact that the dispatch doesn't have to hear chatter that ties up the dispatch/ repeater channel, when someone is requesting additional resources, or they are trying to dispatch additional resources.
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