Santa Clara County Conventional

[officer_415]

Regarding the recent changes to the Santa Clara County Fire freqs:

The new 700 MHz low power tacticals show mode "FMN" and 156.7 PL, shouldn't they be mode "P25" and have a corresponding NAC code (293 perhaps)? I was under the impression that all 700 MHz stuff was digital...

 

[W8RMH]

700 MHz. can be any mode.

 

[Eng74]

This thread made for a fun Sunday of reprogramming in Sentinel. Glad I saw this before going up there next month.

 

[Stealthguy05]

It seems like the agency that is using those Low Powers so far is San Jose. I was too far to hear anything but it was referenced on the air. The command channel names seem to be a hit and miss. I'm still hearing some of the old channel names, although I did hear units referencing a "Command 92" at a 4 alarm fire in Santa Clara a few weeks ago.

 

[officer_415]

Can anyone confirm they're analog, 156.7 PL?

 

[Stealthguy05]

http://svria.org/download/Other/wor.../DRAFT-SVRCS-Implementation-Use-Standards.pdf
This file appears to show analog in Appendix D. Of course, a lot could have changed since December.