Posted by Dennis KB7ST on July 16, 2001 at 08:51:20:
USFS this morning (Monday, 7/16/) announced two frequency changes for the 30-mile fire. Channel 5 (fire line to their base stn at the fire) is now 168.400 transmit with repeater output on 166.6125. Channel 6, Air Operations, is now 166.675. Also, the Wenatchee main repeater freqs...171.500 is known as Forest 1 or ForestNet 1. The 172XXX freq posted on this web site is known as Forest2 or ForestNet 2. 168.650 is also heard frequently. This is a simplex freq they call Flight Following. When an air tanker, helicopter, jump aircraft or rappel aircraft take off from the various air bases, they maintain contact with Wenatchee or whatever dispatch base, giving position reports and ETA's to the fire site. The new air tanker base at Moses Lake (Grant County Int'l airport) was active with the DC-7 (four propellors) air tankers. They dispatched one of them late yesterday that flew right over those of us flying gliders at the Ephrata airport. It helped with a new small fire in the Monitor area near Cashmere.