Huron County Fire

[CDTbolt10033]

Hello,

On Saturday, April 13th, I travelled to Seaforth, Ontario to observe their fire siren test. At noon, Owen Sound Communications began conducting pager tests for Zurich, Seaforth, and Clinton. During the test, Owen Sound Comms asked for a reply from the designated fire officer. However, I didn't hear any response on the county analog paging channel 154.265.

It's possible that I had weak reception with my Minitor V pager. The dispatcher acknowledged the response, but I'm curious as to what Huron East and other Huron County Fire Departments use for Tac channels. I know that North Huron uses DMR channels for some stations and analog channels for other areas like the Municipality of Bluewater Fire and Goderich Fire.
However, I'm not sure about other departments. As I'm too far from Huron County to hear them from Waterloo Region, I was wondering if there is someone closer to Huron County who could scan their frequencies and determine whether they use DMR, analog or other channels.

 

[bluwest]

They are usually dispatched and 2 way comms on that channel. They have not as far as I know upgraded their system which is brutal at best. They do not use DMR and are not part of the Huron North system.

 

[CDTbolt10033]

Searching on TAFL I found that they cancelled 151.040 and 155.05
(cancel 151.04/155.05 (moved to licence 010949878-001))

TAFL Licence Details

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It now shows digital with this new licence from 2022

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[bluwest]

That's North Huron. Not East Huron. North Huron went onto a digital system...not Huron East. For some dumb reason the different segments of Huron County do no work together.

 

[Forts]

Is North Huron DMR? I know South Huron went with an multi site DMR system about 12 years ago. The county certainly is oddly segmented though, that's for sure.

 

[sirsmiley]

Only South is DMR with 3 sites site roaming. North is two site simulcast analog.

Bluewater, Huron East and Central Huron are all base mobile. No repeaters. Those municipalities don't have a lot of towns or infrastructure around.

 

[casehuff613]

Does anyone have access to Goderich, Ontario Fire Department pager tones? Would be nice to program into my Minitor V

 

[CDTbolt10033]

Hello,
I received North Huron Fire on my scanner at 151.040 MHz during good conditions. I heard them page Wingham Fire to assist Lucknow at 09:04 on 09/10/25. Do they patch the county paging channel (154.265) with 151.040 (North Huron Fire channel)? Is this done because they have that specific repeater in the area?

 

[CDTbolt10033]

Small update for Huron County Fire: after several nights/mornings of good conditions for propagation, some are not 100% sure yet, but I determined the following so far:

Same Frequency but different CTCSS tones:
Huron East Fire (page heard with that CTCSS tone) - 154.265 with a CTCSS of 107.2
South Huron Fire (page heard with that CTCSS tone) - 154.265 with a CTCSS of 206.5
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Howick Fire? (Heard Howick fire tones) - 419.4625 with a CTCSS of 88.5
Fire Dept of North Huron Disp/Tac (Unsure if there is a second tac channel since there are two FDNH fire stations) - 151.040 with a CTCSS of 218.1