OES Frequencies

[ScannerDude244]

Are these frequencies no longer in use? I never hear Cal EMA do radio checks with the ECC's any more.


154.1600 - OES 1
154.2200 - OES 2

 

[bryan_herbert]

I still hear them used during major fires

 

[bryan_herbert]

BTW I believe they're referred to as FIRE 1 and FIRE 2 now

 

[ScannerDude244]

BTW I believe they're referred to as FIRE 1 and FIRE 2 now

Ok I see them in the data base as Cal EMA 1,2. I wonder why they stop doing radio checks with ECC's on Sundays? Maybe they moved it during the week?

 

[lbfd09]

Ok I see them in the data base as Cal EMA 1,2. I wonder why they stop doing radio checks with ECC's on Sundays? Maybe they moved it during the week?

They might have move to a new time/date. But more realistically, knowing government, they could be just suffering from the penny wise pound foolish budget cutbacks and have been suspended or discontinued. This of course forgetting the great job this system did in a disaster of recent times - despite the availability of those satellite channels and dishes.

 

[f40ph]

OES 1 and OES 2

They are still in all FD radios. They display as OES1 and OES2. (OES1A, 1B, 2A, and 2B for the four repeater pairs).

The Cal-EMA name never caught on for the radio display and the direction was to leave them as "OES".

Since the statewide "CESRS" system is for both fire and law, the emphasis seems to be on that. However, they say they have narrowbanded the OES repeaters, so I expect to see a shift for the fire side to use the OES system a bit more "someday".

 

[ScannerDude244]

They might have move to a new time/date. But more realistically, knowing government, they could be just suffering from the penny wise pound foolish budget cutbacks and have been suspended or discontinued. This of course forgetting the great job this system did in a disaster of recent times - despite the availability of those satellite channels and dishes.

That's what I'm thinking I do hear DSG guys doing radio checks from time to time.

 

[gvranchosbill]

Lake Tahoe Nevada

OES 1A
154.1600/CSQ Out
159.1350/123.0 In
Scout Peak Repeater till active here though not much has been heard.
in a while.

FYI:
154.7100/110.9 Brockway Summit LAWNET has had testing on it lately.
153.7550/192.8 Repeaters(Pine Grove,Scout Peak) has had Com Checks as well.

 

[RadioGuy1951]

These freqs are sometimes used by local depts for SAR...

 

[Markb]

In fact, July 1 of this year, they will be dropping the CalEMA name and going back to OES.

 

[SCPD]

In fact, July 1 of this year, they will be dropping the CalEMA name and going back to OES.

I wonder if it will be a real department instead of part of the governor's office. That was the major, and needed in my opinion, change that occurred at the same time the agency was renamed. Otherwise I'm glad to see the "Cal xxx" agency trend slowing down.

 

[K6CDO]

I wonder if it will be a real department instead of part of the governor's office. That was the major, and needed in my opinion, change that occurred at the same time the agency was renamed. Otherwise I'm glad to see the "Cal xxx" agency trend slowing down.

Nope. Governor's Office of Emergency Services.

 

[norcalscan]

The repeater pairs are used often during major fires for fire camp administration, or other local logistical/administration net. It's a resource often used in Butte County.

 

[smokeybehr]

I wonder if it will be a real department instead of part of the governor's office. That was the major, and needed in my opinion, change that occurred at the same time the agency was renamed. Otherwise I'm glad to see the "Cal xxx" agency trend slowing down.

That was the Governator's idea, for all of the CalWhatever departments.

And yes, it's going back to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services on 7/1/13. PSCO is also moving from CTA to CalEMA (OES) on 7/1/13, consolidating the Public Safety radio assets under an emergency response agency.

I've been putting a bug in the ear of as many people in the food chain for CalFire to get off CESRS as their "travel net" and put them on the OES Fire channels where they belong.