GA: HEAR or H.E.A.R. Frequencies

[WouffHong]

Quite often with Life-Flight, or other Copters leaving or arriving an LZ here in N. GA, they want to switch to HEAR frequency for the local Fire/Med frequency, yet I have never found the frequency (ies) used.

Anyone have that info?

TNX es 73

Wouff

 

[KB1UAM]

i don't know if your in barrow county or not, but i found the hear frequencies right in the georgia wiki, try 155.280 or 155.340, we also have HEAR in massachusetts and we use those freqs as well. thats what was listed in barrow county georgia so there ya go

 

[WouffHong]

Thanks for input!

i don't know if your in barrow county or not, but i found the hear frequencies right in the georgia wiki, try 155.280 or 155.340, we also have HEAR in massachusetts and we use those freqs as well. thats what was listed in barrow county georgia so there ya go

I have searched 154-159 (and in smaller segments) unsuccessfully, but with those short transmissions, could have skipped right over it :-( - 155,16 and 155.34 are used statewide (as they were when I lived in MA and FL), but one reason I am interested was an incident where the LZ Med unit was switching over to start calling the Copter on HEAR and I heard the Copter calling LZ on 155.34 ( I believe) unsuccessfully. I called dispatch and they advised the LZ unit to go TO that frequency and the patient was scooped and flown out OK.

As I gathered, it turned out that the 1st Copter w/HEAR aboard had to RTB and the relief chopper didn't have HEAR, so used the default common statewide freq, This was some tiime ago, so may be some errors in the story (freq's, etc) :roll:

Wouff

 

[rmiller818]

Depending on where it is, many of the helicopters use the radio system/frequencies of the agency they are working with.

 

[nunyax]

I usually hear the helicopters talking to on-scene fire personnel on 154.280 MHz State Fire Mutual Aid. I've heard the helicopters talk to the hospital on 155.340 MHz,

 

[turbojetinfo]

H.E.A.R. Freqs

Here in North Georgia we use 154.280 and 155.340 for LZ and Hospital comms.

Bill Wilson EMS Pilot
King Air B-200
BK 117

 

[turbojetinfo]

H.E.A.R Freqs

We also use 123.025 for Helo to Helo freqs for position reporting known as Atlanta Metro.

 

[b7spectra]

In the Metro Atlanta area, a lot of the helo's have Spectra and/or XTL radio's in them and can talk on the TRS/DTRS FD channels.

 

[Vern]

H.E.A.R. system tidbit from Zetron's website

Link to an interesting Zetron webpage on the H.E.A.R. system:

Hospitals H.E.A.R the Call for Emergency Communications

 

[kg4ojj]

Historically, in Georgia, the HEAR common medical frequency was/is 155.340.

Other fun facts:
The individual hospitals were "toned" differently and the medic had to "dial-up" the specific hospital.
I don't have a list of the old tone codes, but each ambulance had a dial/touch tone pad next to the radio.The emergency code was "1-3333" or "3-3333"...all I remember was to keep dialing 3 (maybe after the first 1) to get some attention and for someone to answer my calls. That was a few decades ago......

The only other frequency we ever were allowed to use was 155.295, as it was a secondary HEAR channel (at one time). That was our tactical or disaster frequency, and was "available for use" across the state. We, in rural non-Atlanta counties, never had access on the original 10 UHF MEDIC frequencies.

Back in the day, we'd open the "tone" on the hospital's base radio and DX the HEAR channel. Amazing what you could hear with a 150' antenna at 3am....

 

[b7spectra]

Wulfsberg makes an awesome radio that can go from 29-900MHz. In a lot of rural areas, these are invaluable as with just a single radio you can do low band, high band, UHF and 800 (non TRS). CTCSS and DPL are also built into it.

 

[lucas2121]

In GA and in most places, the helicopters can program to any frequency.
154.28 is state fire interop.
154.34 is state HEAR.

 

[jcanupp]

In the Atlanta area, every effort will be made to contact the incident commander on their radio system, beit a P-25 (ex. Gwinnett, Fulton, Cobb), or a VHF system, such as Dawson Lumpkin, ect.. The agency requesting the aircraft usually tells us which cahnnel to contact them on, and which unit is the incident commander, ex. Dawson Bat. 1 on the HEAR, Hall Medic 7 on Fire Tac Central. So, the HEAR 155.34, and State Fire are still in use.

 

[shadcall]

Try this link. Not sure if this is the information you are looking for.

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Emergency_Medical_Services_Radio

I seem to remember the old Police Call directory used to list HEAR frequencies. I used their directories a long time ago back in the "stone age" before the Net or RR.

Anyways, hope it helps.

Shadcall

Pro 163, Pro 2027, Pro 62
DX-390

 

[WouffHong]

Hear

In GA and in most places, the helicopters can program to any frequency.
154.28 is state fire interop.
154.34 is state HEAR.

Lucas, DO you mean 154.34 OR the usual 155.34? ;-)
Wouff

 

[lucas2121]

Lucas, DO you mean 154.34 OR the usual 155.34? ;-)
Wouff

I mean 155.34, 154.34 was our old ems dispatch, I forget that sometimes.
Sorry

 

[WouffHong]

no problem.. :-0 -- But why "unfortunately, GA" ??