Difference between revisions of "US Forest Service - Cleveland National Forest (CA)"

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US Forests in California:
Angeles	Inyo	Lassen	Modoc	Sequoia	Six Rivers
Cleveland	Klamath	Los Padres	Plumas	Shasta-Trinity	Stanislaus
Eldorado	Lake Tahoe BMU	Mendocino	San Bernardino	Sierra	Tahoe

Cleveland National Forest (CNF - Forest #02) "Cleveland" KME 2-3

The Cleveland National Forest is the southern-most National Forest in California. Consisting of 460,000 acres, the forest offers a wide variety of terrains and recreational opportunities. On July 1st, 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt signed a declaration that created this National Forest. Now, more than 100 years later, the Cleveland National Forest provides habitat for native wildlife, as well as a natural refuge and playground for many of the 8.9 million residents of San Diego, Orange and Riverside Counties. This forest consists of mostly of chaparral, with a few riparian areas. A warm dry Mediterranean climate prevails over the Forest. A major issue on the forest is illegal immigration in the form of abandoned campfires, trash, user built trails and visitor safety. The forest has a special hand crew (non fire) whose sole purpose is the clean up the mess left behind by illegal immigrates.

The Cleveland has the smallest area of conifer (needled trees) forest (93,000 acres) of any National Forest in California and the old growth portion of it is only 3,856 acres, almost all of it Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi).

The forest is divided into the Trabuco (District 2 - Corona), Palomar (District 3 - Ramona) and Descanso (District 4 - Alpine) Ranger Districts with the Forest Supervisor's Office in Rancho Bernardo. Supervisor's Office personnel use #1 in their designators. The San Diego National Wildlife Refuge is occasionally heard on Cleveland NF nets and personnel use 8300 series numbers for personnel/apparatus designators.

CNF Stations
Trabuco District #2	Palomar District #3	Descanso District #4
Station 21-Corona District Office	Station 31-Oak Grove	Station 41-Descanso District Office
Station 22-Temescal	Station 32- Lake Henshaw	Station 42- Mt. Laguna
Station 23-El Cariso	Station 33- Pine Hill	Station 43-Cameron
Station 24-Bear Creek	Station 34-Palomar	Station 44-Cottonwood
Station 25-San Juan	Station 35-San Vicente	Station 45-Glencliff
Station 26-Trabuco	Station 36-Mt. Palomar	Station 46- Japatul Valley
Station 27-Silverado	Station 39-Goose Valley
Station 28-Case Springs

RADIO SYSTEM

This forest has a forest net and admin net. The Cleveland does not have the Service Net programmed in its core radio group as shown here, but is using 172.4000 as the service net repeater output and 164.1250 as the input. The number and location of remote bases is not known, but it would be safe to assume that there is one for each ranger district. There are 12 repeater sites on the forest, with Forest Net repeaters on all 12 and Admin Net on 9. The number of Service Net repeaters and their location is not known. There is one tone dedicated to the operation of a portable repeater that is capable of operating on all three nets. The input or repeater selection tone is not transmitted on the repeater output frequency, rather all repeaters transmit Tone 8 (103.5) on the output. Direct or simplex communications are no longer conducted on special simplex channels as there are switches on radios to allow for direct communications on any repeater pair channel using the repeater output channel.

Other

The unit identifiers follow the function name, district, position number system. Employees assigned to the Forest Supervisor's Office have identifiers beginning with the number 1. The Cleveland National Forest Emergency Communications Center is co-located with Cal Fire's Monte Vista Interagency Communications Center. The ECC also dispatches for the USMC Camp Pendleton (fire function only), the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex, the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge and the Viejas and Sycuan Indian Reservations. The wildlife refuge units have a four number ID system that starts with "83." For engines the 3rd number is the engine type. The ECC is a 24 hour operation and identifies as "Monte Vista."

Channel Plan

**Cleveland National Forest Channel Lineup**
Channel	Tone(s)	Rx	Tx	Alpha Tag	Description
1	1-12	171.4250	164.8000	CNF1 Forest	Forest Repeater Net
2	All excp. 1,6,8	171.1375	164.5000	CNF2 Admin	Admin Repeater Net
3		168.2000	168.2000	CNF 3 NIFC T2	NIFC Tactical 2
4		166.5500	166.5500	CNF4 R5 T4	R5 Tactical 4 Palomar Ranger District Initial Attack
5		167.1125	167.1125	CNF5 R5 T5	R5 Tactical 5 Trabuco Ranger District Initial Attack
6		168.2375	168.2375	CNF6 R5 T6	R5 Tactical 6 Descanso Ranger District Initial Attack
7		151.1900	159.2250	CNF7 CF MVU1	Cal Fire MVU Local 1 (Note: Tone 3 - 131.8 Rx Side)
8		151.3325	159.2775	CNF8 CF MVU2	Cal Fire MVU Local 2 (Note: Tone 3 - 131.8 Rx Side)
9		151.3550	159.3300	CNF9 CF C1	Cal Fire Command 1 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Rx Side)
10		151.2650	159.3300	CNF10 CF C2	Cal Fire Command 2 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Rx Side)
11		151.3400	159.3450	CNF11 CF C3	Cal Fire Command 3 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Tx/Rx Side)
12		151.2500	151.2500	CNF12 CF T5	Cal Fire Tactical 5 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
13		151.3700	151.3700	CNF13 CF T8	Cal Fire Tactical 8 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
14		159.2625	159.2625	CNF14 CF A/G 2	Cal Fire Air to Ground 2 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
15		169.1125	169.1125	CNF15 A/G 59(P)	National Air-Ground 59 - CA Zone 4 Primary

Channel 16 is not listed on 2021 official documents.

Tones

CNF Repeaters
Tone	Location	CTCSS Tone
1	Sierra	110.9
2	Santiago Peak	123.0
3	Elsinore	131.8
4	High Point	136.5
5	Cuyumaca	146.2
6	Ortega	156.7
7	Los Pinos	167.9
8	Boucher	103.5
9	Lyons Peak	100.0
10	Portable Repeater	107.2
11	Black Mtn.	114.8
12	Sitton Peak	127.3
13	Camp Pendleton	141.3

All repeaters transmit Tone 8 - 103.5 on the output frequency.

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 ==='''RADIO SYSTEM'''===
-This forest has a forest net and admin net. There are are no direct, or simplex, channels for these 2 nets. The Cleveland does not have the Service Net programmed in its core radio group as shown here, but is using 172.4000 as the service net repeater output and 164.1250 as the input. The number and location of remote bases is not known, but it would be safe to assume that there is one for each ranger district.  There are 12 repeater sites on the forest, with Forest Net repeaters on all 12 and Admin Net on 9.  The number of Service Net repeaters and their location is not known. There is one tone dedicated to the operation of a portable repeater that is capable of operating on all three nets.  The input or repeater selection tone is not transmitted on the repeater output frequency, rather all repeaters transmit Tone 8 (103.5) on the output. Direct or simplex communications are no longer conducted on special simplex channels as there are switches on radios to allow for direct communications on any repeater pair channel using the repeater output channel.
+This forest has a forest net and admin net. The Cleveland does not have the Service Net programmed in its core radio group as shown here, but is using 172.4000 as the service net repeater output and 164.1250 as the input. The number and location of remote bases is not known, but it would be safe to assume that there is one for each ranger district.  There are 12 repeater sites on the forest, with Forest Net repeaters on all 12 and Admin Net on 9.  The number of Service Net repeaters and their location is not known. There is one tone dedicated to the operation of a portable repeater that is capable of operating on all three nets.  The input or repeater selection tone is not transmitted on the repeater output frequency, rather all repeaters transmit Tone 8 (103.5) on the output. Direct or simplex communications are no longer conducted on special simplex channels as there are switches on radios to allow for direct communications on any repeater pair channel using the repeater output channel.
 ==='''Other'''===