thinking about the california firescope channel list

[Peteri Szerlagi]

https://web.archive.org/web/20220509134031/https://firescope.caloes.ca.gov/ICS%20Documents/2022%20MACS-441-1.pdf

if all field radios are now field programmable .... then maybe a good
sop would be ... leave 1 bank open in each radio .... utilize
153.755 and 168.35 as travel channels ..... arrive at scene and have
radio reprogrammed in the open bank with the applicable firescene
channels ... maybe we should assume that the field unit has to travel
more than 1 hour out of their home county or home city ... therefore
radios need all channels within 1 hour travel distance plus 1 open
bank

the other option is to have maybe 100 local channels plus 100 mutual
aid channels .. which is what the firescope list is basically

note ... maybe instead of 1 hour travel time we can say 'any radio
that loses contact with their home city or county needs to have travel
channels available so that they always be in contact with some
dispatcher somewhere'

the big radio companies have created a very lousy radio system for the
public safety agencies in the usa ... radios in 6 ot 7 bands over
millions of channels using millions of pls and multi modulation
schemes and power levels and code plugs and trunking schemes and
channel loads ... it really is the mother of all clusters

look what the medevacs did in the Northeast ... they said 'screw all
these lz channels' .. we are just going to use 1 channel per band