Scanner frequencies for the Mountain Empire Area of San Diego East County. Provided for residents who are interested in monitoring fire frequencies using Trunk Tracker scanners on the San Diego County 800 Mhz frequencies and State and Federal agencies on VHF. Also see our Emergency acronyms and definitions page.
San Diego County, RCS, 800 Mhz Trunking System, Transmitter Site
The tables below are the tower frequencies and talkgroups for the Analog Heartland Fire Frequencies. The same tower frequencies work on digital scanners using digital talk groups. See the instructions for your scanner on programming these frequencies. Basically you need to enter the site frequencies, use the sites in bold for the Mountain Empire area, and then enter the Talkgroup numbers. With most new APCO25 scanners you only need to enter the control channels.
Click on this link to open an Adobe PDF file of the County RCS transmitter sites.
Red* are Primary Control Channels, Blue* are alternate control channels
Site
Name
Freqs
001
866.03750
866.13750
866.41250
866.43750
866.63750
866.88750
866.91250
867.06250
867.13750
867.38750
867.41250
867.61250
867.63750
867.91250a
868.07500a
868.13750a
868.41250c
868.43750
868.60000
002
856.17500
856.20000
857.17500
857.20000
858.17500
858.20000
859.20000
860.17500
860.20000
860.22500
861.00000
861.15000
861.20000a
861.50000
862.15000a
862.20000a
863.15000c
864.25000
865.00000
003
858.15000
860.15000
866.06250
866.08750
866.57500
867.58750
867.95000a
868.37500a
868.55000a
868.92500c
004
866.66250
866.68750
866.83750
867.16250
867.33750
867.66250
867.83750a
868.16250a
868.18750c
868.33750a
005
866.30000
867.05000
867.58750
868.45000c
010
866.27500
866.80000
867.30000
867.75000c
011
857.17500
858.17500
861.20000c
863.05000
867.05000
012
867.06250
867.16250
868.66250c
018
866.86250
867.36250
868.86250c
019
866.60000
867.18750
867.68750
868.33750
868.83750c
021
856.42500
859.00000
861.25000
862.25000
863.25000c
024
867.07500
867.56250
867.95000
868.07500
868.47500c
025
856.20000
858.20000c
859.25000
864.10000
865.10000a
026
856.10000
857.10000a
861.10000
862.05000c
027
862.25000
863.25000
864.25000
865.25000c
030
857.02500
857.20000
858.02500
858.07500
859.02500
860.02500
864.05000a
865.05000a
865.25000c
031
856.22500
857.22500c
858.22500a
866.13750
032
856.07500
857.07500
858.05000
859.05000
859.07500
860.20000c
861.05000
863.10000a
864.25000a
034
867.27500
867.77500c
From http://www.radioreference.com
As of 7/1/2008
Talkgroups, Heartland Inland Fire, Monta Vista (Cal Fire) ( San Diego, Mountain Empire )
July 1, 2008 update. Effective July 1, 2005, dispatching for Rural Fire Departments was moved from the Heartland Center to Cal Fire's Monta Vista Dispatch Center (MVU). All Rural Fire units are now being dispatched on the MVU Talkgroups listed below. As of July 1 2008, Campo Fire, Boulevard Fire, Laguna Fire and Palomar Fire have also moved to MVU Dispatch.
TALKGROUP DESCRIPTION 8688 Inland Fire Dispatch 2 9584 Inland Fire / Heartland Fire Command (CMD)-7 9616 Inland Fire / Heartland Fire CMD-8 9648 Inland Fire / Heartland Fire CMD-9 9680 Inland Fire / Heartland Fire TAC-11 9712 Inland Fire / Heartland Fire TAC-12 17232 Inland Fire TAC-13 17264 Inland Fire TAC-14 17296 Inland Fire TAC-15 17328 Inland Fire TAC-16 17360 Inland Fire Training 1 17392 Inland Fire Training 2 17424 Inland Fire Chiefs 21264 Rural Admin 7056 Fire air 10192 Med Air (Life Flight) 21296 Inland Fire Administration MVU Monta Vista (Cal Fire-Rural Fire) 10384 Monta Vista Dispatch 10320 MVU CMD-1 10416 MVU TAC-1 10352 MVU CMD-2 10448 MVU TAC-2
East Mutual Aid
TALKGROUP DESCRIPTION 1840 East CMD-1 1872 East TAC-1 1904 East TAC-2 1936 East CMD-2 1968 East TAC-3 2000 East TAC-4 2032 East CMD-3 2064 East TAC-5 2096 East TAC-6 2128 East CMD-4 2160 East TAC-7 2192 East TAC-8 2224 East CMD-5 2256 East TAC-9 2288 East TAC-10 2320 East TAC-11
State (CDF) and Federal (USFS) Fire, VHF Frequencies
Frequency Agency 151.190
151.145
151.160
151.175
151.190
151.250
151.355
151.265
151.340
168.750
168.050
168.200
168.600Monta Vista (CDF) LOCAL
CDF TAC 1
CDF TAC 2
CDF TAC 3
CDF TAC 4
CDF TAC 5
CDF Command 1
CDF Command 2
CDF command 3
USFS Dispatch (Primarily Cleveland Forest)
USFS Tac 1
USFS Tac 2
USFS Tac 3
San Diego County and California OES (Office of Emergency Services)
153.995
155.085
153.890
154.355
153.815
154.280
154.265
154.295
155.085
154.175
156.075
154.920
154.935
154.160
154.220
155.160Border Cmd T1 (RPTR)
SD County Red
SD County Yellow
SD County Gray
SD County Brown
OES White 1
OES White 2
OES White 3
Fire Red Command
SD County Red 2
OES CALCORD
Clemars 1
Clemars 2
OES TAC 1
OES TAC 2
National Search/Rescue
Reference. The Scannerstuff, Southern California Frequency directory book is an excellent reference for scanners in general and a complete list of frequencies used in Southern California. Their website is at www.californiascanner.com. The book is available in San Diego at the Ham Radio Outlet. Manuals. If you are missing a manual for your scanner try this site.
Note: In the
Mountain Empire the CHP has switched to the RCS digital system with the SDSO. To monitor these frequencies you
need a digital scanner! Follow this link to the strong signals website
for an extensive list of analog and digital scanners.
Information courtesy of various Internet websites below.
www.scandiego.com
www.sandiegoscan.com
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