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Frequency User Usage I. D. 154.370 All Douglas County Fire Departments Primary Dispatch Red, Dispatch 154.250 North County Departments Tactical White 154.445 South County Tactical Grey 153.770 South County Tactical Black

Multimedia Hear Oakland fire and Sutherlin ambulance dispatched to an accident. (185.2 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

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Roseburg units are dispatched on a strange call. (57.2 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

To determine where a unit is from use the table above and to determine what it is use the table to the left. I. E. 2431 is from Oakland Rural Fire Department because it starts with 24xx and it is an engine because it ends with 3x. Most departments will have more than one piece of each type of apparatus and they will be number sequentially in the same series as the original. There is some variation from the system, more frequently in the smaller departments, but most units comply pretty well.

During fire season D. F. P. A. also responds to wildland fires so it is helpful to monitor their frequencies as well. In the extreme northwest part of the county wildland fire protection is provided by the Western Lane District of the Oregon Department of Forestry. From Paradise Creek west to the coast wildland fire protection is provided by Coos Forest Protective. Their frequencies are listed with DFPA's below.

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DFPA's North Unit employees check in with their radio numbers, at the request of dispatch. (171.1 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

Red net and White net are used by both DFPA and ODF as simplex tactical channels at the scene of fires. This is where you get the best information on wildland fires. Some of the employees believe that no one scans their tactical channels so they are a bit looser with the lips on these channels. On summer evenings during lightning storms you can get pretty accurate information on where the cells are and where they are heading by tuning in to DFPA. There are usually people in most of the lookouts and on several key high points around the county. Tactical frequencies are also used for general communication when units are close enough to each other.

In the last few years it seems that OSP has been doing more and more saturation patrols to catch speeders and impaired drivers. This usually means that a bunch of patrol cars, sometimes from more than one agency, will wait around a corner and a spotter, sometimes even an aircraft, will use laser or radar to clock cars and report them to the patrol officers. One of their favorite spots is just north of the Metz Hill rest area between Oakland and Yoncalla. The spotter will frequently be relaying the information such as speed, lane, color and vehicle type to the patrol cars on 155.475. That having been said I did hear them use the 154.815 simplex once and they used some kind of repetitive beep periodically on the channel for about an hour before the actual saturation began, presumably to make people lock the channel out of their scanners. . .

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An OSP trooper warns his friends in the south county about a possible customer. (152 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

On the right is a table illustrating OSP's radio numbering system. I must thank Clair for filling in the blanks on this one. The x's in the I. D.s are variable for each individual officer with the first two being the station number in most cases. When they say the I. D.'s with letters in them they say "Mary" or "David" or "Charles" instead of the letter itself. For example: One of Eugene OSP's motorcycle officers might be "twenty-five mary five". As you can see there is more than one way to refer to some of the types of officers. They are usually pretty consistent within a district but not always. For example: some of Roseburg OSP's detectives might be numbered in the 37Dx series and some might be in the xx50-xx59 series. She also mentioned that in some of the smaller offices the xx11-xx19 series is also used for patrol officers. The other series aren't absolute either but they are a good rule of thumb and are generally followed pretty well.

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County dispatches a unit for a subject who didn't know when to say when. (127 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

There is a repeater for the "green" channel in the Canyonville area. It is supposed to be for Search and Rescue use but those type of incidents are relatively rare and otherwise it is used mainly for informal communications between units. Apparently some officers don't think this channel is scanned by as many people, or maybe not their bosses because they sometimes treat it like a CB.

I list the Roseburg City frequency here because it is commonly used by city and county units and is usually referred to as "channel 1" instead of "city". I also have a list of the County Sheriff's twelve codes. You might want to visit the Douglas County Sheriff's official homepage for more information about their operations and how to contact them.

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Roseburg PD responds to shots fired. (114 kb, .wav) | Real Audio

There isn't much activity on Oakland's city channel right now because the police chief's postion is vacant and there is only one permanent officer and one reserve patroling. The rest of the shifts are patroled by the county and they usually stick to their normal channels. All of these frequencies are simplex only and don't extend much beyond the base city.

*Currently Sutherlin PD is testing a new officer ID system in which they say Sutherlin xx instead of 25x where x is the individual officer's call number. If the system is successful the whole county could go to it making it much easier for us to identify the city an officer is from. Here is a list of the "temporary " radio number assignments that Sutherlin is using during the test. Of course Sutherlin doesn't have enough people to fill all the numbers so only the following numbers are actually assigned: 01-05, 11-12, 21-26, 61-63, 81-87.

The 145.43 repeater hosts a "net" on Monday evenings. During this time there is a "net controller" who all "traffic" is addressed to. He or She will call for all hams on frequency to check in with their callsign and give any news related to the Umpqua Valley Amateur Radio Club or of interest to hams in general. This is probably not that interesting to non-amateurs but I include it so that you know what you are listening to if you happen to turn on the scanner at the right time. A similiar net will be in place any time a State of Emergency has been declared, but this net is to facilitate emergency communications and is quite interesting to monitor. During the flooding of '96 the ham bands were some of the best sources of info on road closures etc..

For use of the 146.90 autopatch contact the Umpqua Valley Amateur Radio Club at P. O. Box 925, Roseburg OR 97470. If you are interested in becoming a member of the ARES for Douglas County contact Tom KB7YLY at 673-7859. The 145.39 machine has a remote link from the Roseburg area on the 100 hz tone.

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