I just completed posting the Los Padres (LPF) before entering this forum thread. I was able to get a one year old official listing of the LPF's channels and frequencies. Someone on another thread mentioned, a while back, that the LPF seemed to have disappeared from the airwaves. As of one year ago the LPF had not completed their narrow banding, at least according to the information sheet I picked up from a former co-worker. The list, although official, could be in error on this point.
When National Forests in R5 (California) switch to narrow band they typically pick up a second net. The LPF only has one, Channels 7/8 are actually a service net shared with at least one other NF. Maybe they will pick up a administrative net with narrow banding. Time will tell and I might be able to find out sometime in the next 6-8 months, if my source for this NF does not dry up. You may notice that the LPF's channels 3 and 4 are actually a repeater frequency pair. Quite some time ago the LPF decided they wanted two tactical frequencies unique to the LPF and did not install an admin net. With such a spread out Forest (Monterey to Lake Piru) it would seem that a second net would be absolutely necessary and service net is supposed to be used for logistics/resource ordering when cell coverage is not present at the ICP.
I also submitted some additions and corrections to the ICS three letter identifiers for the National Forests in R5.
I need some opinions on the next one. Along with frequency/channel information for the LPF I submitted a list of their repeater locations and tones. This is not shown in the database for any National Forest in R5. I would be able to submit a fairly accurate list for every Forest, based on 2-3 year old information, and more recent for those Forests that I have traveled to and verified in the last 1-2 years. With so many NF's now transmitting the repeater selection tone on the output frequency I find this information essential and if others find it useful, I will submit the repeater listings for the other 17 NF's in R5 also.
gmclam, your list is fairly accurate but does not reflect the channel order. Air Tactics channels are rarely programmed into ground unit radios unless one of those air tactics channels is being used for air to ground. As far as I know the LPF is linked via microwave and the UHF channels you listed might link a non-microwave site to one that has it. You show channels 7/8 as the LPF's administrative net and it is a service net. Lastly, the listing I have only shows the first 8 channels and these must be common to every group they use on the Forest, off Forest groups have different channel plans no doubt. The two federal government commons or itinerants are not shown in the first 8 common, but are probably included in some other group.
