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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 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.


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CNF Stations
Trabuco District #2 Palomar District #3 Descanso District #4
Station 21/20-Corona District Office Station 31/38-Oak Grove Station 41/48-Descanso
Station 22-Temescal Station 32- Lake Henshaw Station 42/49- Camp Ole
Station 23/29-El Cariso Station 33-Pine Hills Station 43-Cameron
Station 24-Bear Creek Station 34/39-Goose Valley District Office Station 44-Cottonwood
Station 25-San Juan Station 35-San Vicente Station 45-Glencliff
Station 26-Trabuco Station 36-Mt. Palomar Station 46-Japatul
Station 27-Silverado Station 37-Dripping Springs Station 47-Alpine District Office
Station 28-Case Springs


RADIO SYSTEM

This forest has a forest net and admin net. 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. Common function names include resources, timber, recreation, wilderness, OHV (Off Highway Vehicle management) lands, special uses, range, wildlife, watershed, soils, fisheries, engineer, engineering, roads, O & M (Operations and Maintenance), ecology and possible additional. Not every forest uses all of these and some ID the same unit with a different name, example some forests call their O & M and roads units "engineering." 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 San Diego 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, e.g. 8330 is a Type 3 engine on the San Diego NWR. The ECC is a 24 hour operation and identifies as "San Diego" for Cal Fire and local fire departments and "Cleveland" for the Forest Service and other federal agencies.

Channel Plan

Cleveland National Forest Channel Lineup
Channel Tone(s) Rx Tx Alpha Tag Description
1 1-14 171.4250 164.8000 Forest Forest Repeater Net
2 All excp. 1,6 171.1375 164.5000 Admin Admin Repeater Net
3 166.5500 166.5500 R5 T4 R5 Tactical 4 Palomar Ranger District Initial Attack
4 167.1125 167.1125 R5 T5 R5 Tactical 5 Trabuco Ranger District Initial Attack
5 168.2375 168.2375 R5 T6 R5 Tactical 6 Descanso Ranger District Initial Attack
6 167.9625 167.9625 R5 T7 R5 Tactical 7 Secondary Initial Attack
7 151.1900 159.2250 CF SDU1 Cal Fire SDU Local 1 (Note: Tone 3 - 131.8 Rx Side)
8 151.3325 159.2775 CF SDU2 Cal Fire SDU Local 2 (Note: Tone 3 - 131.8 Rx Side)
9 151.3550 159.3300 CF Cmd1 Cal Fire Command 1 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Rx Side)
10 151.2650 159.3300 CF Cmd2 Cal Fire Command 2 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Rx Side)
11 151.3400 159.3450 CF Cmd3 Cal Fire Command 3 (Note: Tone 8 - 103.5 Tx/Rx Side)
12 151.2500 151.2500 CF T5 Cal Fire Tactical 5 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
13 151.3700 151.3700 CF T8 Cal Fire Tactical 8 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
14 159.2625 159.2625 CF A/G 2 Cal Fire Air to Ground 2 (Note: Tone 16 - 192.8 Tx/Rx Side)
15 169.1125 169.1125 A/G 59(P) National Air-Ground 59 - CA Zone 4 Primary
172.4000 164.1250 CNF Serv CNF Service Net


Channel 16 is not listed on any official guides.

Revised 6-9-24

Tones

CNF Repeaters
Tone Location - Nets at location CTCSS Tone
1 Sierra - Forest 110.9
2 Santiago Peak - Forest/Admin/Service 123.0
3 Elsinore - Forest/Admin 131.8
4 High Point - Forest/Admin 136.5
5 Cuyumaca - Forest/Admin 146.2
6 Ortega - Forest 156.7
7 Los Pinos - Forest/Admin 167.9
8 Boucher - Forest/Admin 103.5
9 Lyons Peak - Forest/Admin 100.0
10 Portable Repeater - Forest/Admin 107.2
11 Black Mtn. - Forest/Admin 114.8
12 Sitton Peak - Forest/Admin 127.3
13 Camp Pendleton - Forest/Admin 141.3
14 Wooded Hill - Forest/Admin 151.4


Other than Santiago Peak the location of Service Net repeaters is unknown

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

Related Links

  • National Incident Radio Support Cache - These frequencies are used for large incidents, usually when a Type I or Type II Incident Management Team is assigned. This cache is used for fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, visits of high ranking officials, such the U.S. President and the presidents of other countries, large law enforcement incidents, special events and other incidents where the federal government is utilizing the Incident Command System.




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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