Pilot Fire Air Attack

[firecaptdave]

Hearing Air Attack from the Pilot Fire on 151.4150. Is that a normal A-G channel? I have it listed as something else. It surprises me that I can hear both sides since I’m in Prescott and not really close (AG freqs aren’t normally repeated.) I do have a little elevation working in my favor (I’m at 5700’)

ETA: does anyone have the comm plan?

 

[GlobalNorth]

It isn't all that distant from Prescott and as a 16,000+ acre fire, it's going to require a lot of resources including comms.

Incident Type: Wildfire
Updated: 2023-07-07
Size: 16388 Acres

 

[KB7MIB]

151.4150 is Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management channel 2. Channels 1-8 are repeaters. That particular channel has a repeater atop Mingus Mtn, as well as a few other locations.

Arizona Natural Resource Agencies (Arizona) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Arizona Natural Resource Agencies (Arizona)

www.radioreference.com

John
Peoria

 

[Ravenfalls]

Couple years ago did some tower searching. It showed state land Tac channels as repeaters along the az/CA strip.

Fired, found all kinds weird Freq. California recently changed few channels. CA crews will use those Freq, travel & camp talk around.

Many engines have VRS. Engine repeater will provide coverage few miles. VRS can also allow portables to talk back to their home radio system via FirstNet. Cool technology!

 

[firecaptdave]

151.4150 is Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management channel 2. Channels 1-8 are repeaters. That particular channel has a repeater atop Mingus Mtn, as well as a few other locations.

Arizona Natural Resource Agencies (Arizona) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Arizona Natural Resource Agencies (Arizona)

www.radioreference.com

John
Peoria

Thanks John. It showed as something else on my scanner, so I might have programmed it wrong (although I downloaded it from RR.) Also, I didn’t think AG freqs are normally repeated so that surprised me. I’m likely high enough to hear the aircraft but not the ground unit, if it were simplex.