Will be camping on the central coast soon, just curious if anyone has frequencies for the Hearst Ranch. The Hearst Ranch is a seperate entitiy from Hearst Castle / state parks and looking at the map the ranch encompasses several thousand acres surrounding Heart Castle. I can't imagine they don't have some means of radio communication. Didn't find anything in the DB or doing FCC search. Thanks!
Hearst Ranch, San Luis Obispo County
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I would recommend monitoring some of the local wide-area SMR systems. Many ranch-type operations tend to end up on those wide-area airtime services since they cover a large area and their transports can talk across the region/state.
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Out of curiosity I looked thru the FCC database for non-public services licensees for all of San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties. There were no "Hearst" found there (as you know) and nothing that stood out as something tied to Heart (e.g. cattle company, vineyard and so on).
As you may know, Hearst owns a lot of land inland, bothin SLO and Monterey Counties. When I've been on some of those properties I've never noticed antennas on ranch vehicles and certainly no marked security vehicles. That's not to say they don't exist, just never saw any. On one occasion I spoke to a Hearst employee in there main office for the area about communicating a certain issue among ranch personnel, and they just sent an email.
Of course I don't know your itinerary, but from my travels most of the Hearst properties are pretty well locked up with gates and fences. Consequently it would be difficult to enter an area where you wouldn't be welcomed anyway.
As an aside, I was along the south coast road (off of Nacimiento-Ferguson Road) earlier this year. Some great views and a few dispersed camping areas there.
As you may know, Hearst owns a lot of land inland, bothin SLO and Monterey Counties. When I've been on some of those properties I've never noticed antennas on ranch vehicles and certainly no marked security vehicles. That's not to say they don't exist, just never saw any. On one occasion I spoke to a Hearst employee in there main office for the area about communicating a certain issue among ranch personnel, and they just sent an email.
Of course I don't know your itinerary, but from my travels most of the Hearst properties are pretty well locked up with gates and fences. Consequently it would be difficult to enter an area where you wouldn't be welcomed anyway.
As an aside, I was along the south coast road (off of Nacimiento-Ferguson Road) earlier this year. Some great views and a few dispersed camping areas there.
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I've camped a few times up there, nice area, but some of the larger areas were pretty well trashed, but that was many years ago. When it's quiet, you can often hear the surf from up there.
The Hearst family still owns their other 'castle' up near McCloud, California. Their access road is just across the highway from a road that my sister has a place off of. We've often seen vehicles sitting at the gate, cameras, lights, etc. but no FCC licenses for them, either.
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