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 4/5/2009
Talkgroups, Heartland Inland Fire, Monta Vista (Cal Fire) ( San Diego, Mountain Empire )
April 2009 update. Most East County Fire units are now being dispatched on the MVU (CF)Talkgroups listed below. As of July 1 2008, Campo Fire, Boulevard Fire, Laguna Fire and Palomar Fire have also moved to MV Dispatch. Below is the latest information on the CF Zone Talk Groups
| California Department of Forestry Talkgroups April 2009 |
| DEC | HEX | Mode | Alpha Tag | Description |
| 10384 | 289 | A | 10A-MVU DISP | Dispatch 10 A |
| 28048 | 6d9 | A | 10B-MVU ADM | Administration 10B |
| 10320 | 285 | A | 10C-MVU CMD | Command 10C |
| 10416 | 28b | A | 10D-MVU TAC | Tac 1O D |
| 28112 | 6dd | A | 10E-MVU TAC | Tac 10 E |
| 10352 | 287 | A | 10F-MVU CMD | Command 10F |
| 28080 | 6db | A | 10G-MVU TAC | Tac 10G |
| 28144 | 6df | A | 10H-MVU TAC | Tac 10H |
| 28208 | 6.00E+03 | A | 10I-MVU CMD | Command 10 I |
| 28176 | 6.00E+01 | A | 10J-MVU TAC | Tac 10 J |
| 2288 | 08f | A | 10K-MVU TAC | Tac 10 K |
| 2320 | 91 | A | 10L-MVU TRVL | Travel 10 L |
| 7056 | 1b9 | A | 10L-MVU FAIR | FireAir 10 L |
| 10448 | 28d | A | 10O-MVU Tac | Tac 10 O |
State (CDF) and Federal (USFS) Fire, VHF Frequencies
Ch Frequency Name 1 151.1900 MONTA VISTA 2 151.3550 MV COMMAND 1 3 151.2650 MV COMMAND 2 4 151.3400 MV COMMAND 3 5 151.2200 CDF AIR TO GROUND 6 151.2500 CDF T5 7 151.3700 CDF T8 8 151.4600 CDFT12 9 151.4750 CDFT13 10 153.9950 BORDER COMMAND 11 156.0750 BORDER TAC 12 154.1750 XSD COMMAND 13 155.0850 XSD TAC 1 14 154.3550 SD COUNTY GREY 15 151.1375 VTAC 11 16 154.4525 VTAC 12 17 158.7375 VTAC 13 18 159.4725 VTAC 14 19 154.2350 GREEN 20 153.8150 BROWN 21 154.2800 WHITE 1 22 154.2650 VFIRE 22 23 154.2950 VFIRE 23 24 168.7500 CNF DISPATCH 25 168.1500 CNF ADMIN 26 173.9125 FS TAC 4 27 167.1125 FS TAC 5 28 173.9875 FS TAC 6 29 164.1250 CNF SERVICE 30 170.0000 FS AIR/GROUND 31 168.2000 NIFC TAC 2 32 169.8125 FISH & WILDLIFE 33 153.7550 CESRS CA TRAVEL
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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