Some Updated East County Cell Info (with FCC Data Too!)

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Mikey
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Some Updated East County Cell Info (with FCC Data Too!)

Post by Mikey »

So it was such a nice day I decided to go for a small road trip to smoke some cigars, drink coffee, and most importantly - play with the scanners!

I traveled out Highway 94 to the county line and back up through Mt. Laguna and Julian before coming back to the city and made notes as I could on the systems ... (I'll use the names of the sites listed here)

I have a few updates for the database :D

Since I'm a data geek, I went and correlated the info I found with what I could find in the FCC databases so I'll post 'em both. I also found some conventional 800 frequencies listed on the same towers that I'm posting as well ...

Also - RCS South works great all the way to Potrero / Tecate ... Which SO office patrols 94 along that section? Lemon Grove? ANYWAYS ...

System Types
YF = Trunked public safety & special emergency (national plan)
YP = Trunked public safety & special emergency
GF = Conventional public safety & special emergency
GP = Conventional public safety & special emergency


Campo
862.2000 - control
860.2000 - voice White Star
862.1500 - control
859.2000 - voice
861.1500 - voice
  • FCC Info (White Star - 1.6km SW of Boulevard, CA)
    Site Location - 32.6481, -116.3173
    858.2000 - WPJT454 (Type: YP)
    859.2000
    861.1500
    862.1500

    856.2500 - WPKF897 (Type: GP)
    866.9500 - WPKM695 (Type: GF)
Hendrix
861.2000 - control
857.0750 - voice (may be a typo)
857.1750 - voice
858.1750 - voice
863.0500 - voice
867.0500 - voice
  • FCC Info (Hendrix Peak - 8km E of Jacumba, CA)
    Site Location - 32.6331, -116.1017
    856.1750 - WPKB641 (Type: YP)
    857.1750
    858.1750
    861.2000
    863.0500 - WPYW250 (Type: YP)
    867.0500 - WPYW284 (Type: YF)

    860.1000 - WPKA531 (Type: GP)

    Site Location - 32.9853, -115.7069 with same license
    856.1750 - WPKB641 (Type: YP)
    857.1750
    858.1750
    861.2000
Mt. Empire High School
867.7250 - control
860.2250 - voice
867.2250 - voice Cuyamaca
867.9500 - control
865.1500 - voice
866.0875 - voice
866.5750 - voice
868.4375 - voice
  • FCC Info (Cuyamaca Peak - 10km N of Descanso, CA)
    Site Location - 32.9470, -116.6067
    858.2000 - WPLW597 (Type: YF)
    865.1500
    866.0875
    866.5750
    867.5625
    867.9500
    868.3750
    868.4375
Imperial County (hit this sitting on Mt. Laguna)
860.2000 - control
857.0750 - voice
858.0500 - voice
859.0500 - voice
859.0750 - voice
861.0500 - voice
  • FCC Info (1698 I St., Brawley, CA)
    Site Location - 32.9746, -115.5096
    856.0750 - WQAI446 (Type: YP)
    857.0750
    858.0500
    859.0500
    859.0750
    860.2000
    861.0500
    862.0500
    863.1000
    864.2500
North Peak
868.5500 - control
862.0000 - voice
866.3000 - voice
867.9750 - voice
  • FCC Info (North Peak - 18km N of Descanso, CA)
    Site Location - 33.0067, -116.5861
    862.0000 - WPMT497 (Type: YF)
    866.3000
    867.4750
    867.9750
    868.5500
    868.9250
    860.1500 - WPZZ334 (Type: YP)

    866.9500 - WPKM705 (Type: GF)
*EDIT* Added FCC description of location

- Mike
Last edited by Mikey on Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Lincoln3
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Post by Lincoln3 »

Nice work Mikey! Your complimentary box of Cubans is in the mail.
Mikey
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Post by Mikey »

7 sites down ... 25 to go? :lol:

Well I guess we already know about RCS North and RCS South, so just 23 to go ;)

Oh yeah - Montecristo #2s please 8)

- Mike
w6pix
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Post by w6pix »

Excellent Work Mikey.

Here is some solid evidence that the east loop is going to be simulcast, like the N and S zones.

http://www.scandiego.com/rcs/Appendix4- ... letter.pdf

http://www.scandiego.com/rcs/Appendix7R ... ts-P25.pdf

Notice on the list of radios being purchased for currently non-digital users are all Astro radios. This also trends towards the rumor I've heard that soon, ALL traffic on the RCS will move to digital.

Nothing more stupid than moving fire fighting operations to a modulation scheme that makes the audio harder to understand. It's hard enough to hear firefighters with a BA on talking on a radio in analog. Guess what it will sound like in Digital?
w6pix
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Post by w6pix »

Mikey wrote:7 sites down ... 25 to go? :lol:


Oh yeah - Montecristo #2s please 8)

- Mike
EXPENSIVE TASTE!
Mikey
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Post by Mikey »

I see almost no rural fire agencies on there - Does that mean they have P25 capable radios already? Seems like a LOT to spend on communications for departments that can't afford new fire fighting equipment :?

It would be GREAT if there was an "RCS East" - Sure a lotta territory to cover out there...

And yeah - if you're gonna smoke Cubans, might as well smoke the best :D

- Mike
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Post by Rescue Pooh »

Well it looks like my company AMR is buying 9 radios. I wonder if we'll get a new one in Alpine. The one were using now is property of Alpine Fire :lol:
Mikey
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Post by Mikey »

Now that I think about it, I would assume those conventional channels on each tower would be part of the RCS data system?

I got a bunch more data on fill-in sites I need to get together as well :D

- Mike
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