https://firescope.caloes.ca.gov/ICS Documents/FIRESCOPE Legacy Phase
Out Letter.pdf
this is what happens when a system grows like poison ivy instead of
being neatly cultivated
remember - 1970s germany - EVERY fire department in the county
operated on 10 repeater pairs at 70 mhz and 4 simplex channels at 150
mhz
the repeater pairs were for 'truck to dispatcher' comms - basically 1
repeater pair per county
the 4 simplex channels were the onscene channels
maybe they didnt even use PL
maybe thy kep the repeaters turned offf 95% of the time
maybe all of the radios used 10 watts of power maximum
you might think that california is much better off with 1000 channels
- dont bet on it - huge parts of the state still have only 1 working
channel to talk to a dispatcher - for example any national park or
natipnal forest
many areas now have multi channels that allow dispatcher to truck
comms in various areas - but they are normally only staffed to put one
of those channels on the air at a time - for example - the palisades
fire
you have no idea why it took 15 minutes for the comm plan to come out
of the Palisades Fire
you have no idea what a L.A comm plan even looks like - 2 tac channels
- 2 command channels - dozer channel - 2 air to ground channels - etc
etc etc
its been 14 months since the fires
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