Re: PAULINE ROAD FIRE / San Jacinto & Montgomery Co., NW of Cleveland / 1300:ac 10% containment / Evac¡¯s / Shelters open
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PAULINE ROAD FIRE / San Jacinto & Montgomery Co., NW of Cleveland / 1300:ac 10% containment / Evac¡¯s / Shelters open
Update, appears the broadcastify feed for Montgomery Co FIRE is not passing audio.
Over-The-Air monitoring of Montgomery Co FIRE and Texas Fire Services from my QTH (SE corner of Walker Co.). I program my TIDRADIO H8¡¯s with various public safety freq¡¯s, and set TX inhibit. Makes for a reasonable scanner, exclusive of P25 modes.
| Frequency |
License |
Type |
Tone |
Alpha Tag |
Description |
Mode |
Tag |
| 158.820 |
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RM |
107.2 PL |
Montg FD 1 |
Countywide Dispatch (except Conroe) with 30201 on MCHD TRS |
FMN |
Fire Dispatch |
| 158.790 |
|
RM |
107.2 PL |
Montg FD 2 |
Countywide Fire Response (except Conroe) with 30202 on MCHD TRS |
FMN |
Fire-Tac |
| 154.965 |
|
RM |
107.2 PL |
Montg FD 3 |
Countywide EMS Response (except Conroe) with 30203 on MCHD TRS |
FMN |
Fire-Tac |
?TEXAS A&M Forest Service
| 159.405 |
|
RM |
127.3 PL |
TFS Lvngston |
Livingston Repeater |
FMN |
Fire-Tac |
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Wednesday RACES Zoom mtg was timely as I had the various fire tracking web sites mentioned in the chat, open on the iPad. By far, WatchDuty was the most informative, with regular posts and links to county OEM notification sites.
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Additionally, my HT is programmed with nearby Fire and EMS freq¡¯s. I¡¯m out of range for the ground traffic, but BROADCASTIFY has excellent interfaces to the county channels. I learned quite a bit about EMCOMM radio protocol, command post, staging, response and NIMS in action. The calm demeanor in the voices of those professionals with urgent and priority traffic. Impressive !
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Wed night, I tuned into the various ARES repeaters in the area - no fire related traffic heard. However during the evacuation calls, most of the repeaters in the linked system shared by ARES were occupied by simulcasting the weekly ARRL news. I do not know how I would have been able to break in with priority traffic if I needed to access the repeater network while it was in news broadcast mode.
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Rick WA2HRF Fell