Boulder County Frequency Name ChangeNEW NAMES, OLD FREQUENCIES

Why are we doing this?

Consistency with national standards

Consistency with the neighboring agencies Longmont

SO

BFD

Move more capable channels to preferred status

Changes on VHF Side

Red 1 becomes “County Fire”

Red 2, 3,4,5, and 7 become FTAC2, FTAC3, FTAC4, FTAC5, FTAC7

Red 6 becomes CMD (pronounced C-M-D) Repeated channel reserved for longer distance on-scene comms

New FTAC6 and FTAC8 channels

800 MHz

800 MHz talk groups still patched to VHF channels VHF County Fire patched to BCFire talk group

VHF FTAC2, FTAC3 patched to 800 MHz FTAC2, FTAC3

BCEMS talk group is new BC FCMD

Patched to new VHF CMD channel

New 700 MHz talk Group 7GTAC57

Patched to VHF FTAC8

We don’t have 7GTAC57 in our radios yet

Need to confirm with MV if they have it

Best Practices

FTAC channels are all simplex Radio to radio

Best choice for on-scene communications

CMD channel is repeated Radio to relay receiver, Retransmitted on County transmitters

Useful for wide-area coverage

Need to be able to hit the relay receiver

Patched Talk Groups-Watchout

Similar to repeated channels

Radio to VHF remote receiver. Retransmitted on state DTR network Need to hit the VHF remote receiver

FTAC2 receiver is on Airport Road, behind Boulder Airport hill

State DTR to Boulder transmitter (Simplex) to local radio If out of range of the transmitter (Simplex), no communication

Do not depend on these patches without testing first

I.A. 205Plan

Extended Ops 205 Plan

Implementation

Go Live Date – November 9

Still expect FTAC3 to be first assigned, may get any other FTAC if busy

Can request CMD if it is useful

Operations with MV, request FTAC3, Red NW, then FTAC2

Operations with BFR, request FTAC3, then any other FTAC We have sent all this to them to brief the changes

Program VHF close to November 9

Program 800, TBD

Scenarios

Structure Fire - 7478 Park Circle, Fire on second floor, BC corner 2301, 2401, 2204, 2506, 2516, A12, 2361, 2362

Which tactical channel?

Which alternate tactical channel

Wildland Fire – 8000 block of North 39th Street, north around Table Mountain 2301, 2341, 2360, 4131, 2831, 2234, 4031, 4061, 4162, 2260, 2861

Which command channel?

Which tactical channels?