Texas Forest Service (TX)
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Texas Forest Service database page
The Texas Forest Service was created in 1915, as a service within Texas A&M University, that will "assume direction of all forest interests and all matters pertaining to forestry within the jurisdiction of the state."
Miscellaneous
- A Lubbock County repeater 155.805 PL 127.3 is being used for TFS regional dispatch in Lubbock.
Air-to-Air Frequencies
- TFS changes their AM aircraft band air-to-air frequency plan periodically. The frequencies from old air-to-air zone maps are listed below.
- The current frequency list and zone map is TFS Air-to-Air Frequency Plan and Zone Map 03/23/2011
- At times when there are multiple aircraft working multiple fires in close proximity, alternate frequencies may be ordered to prevent interference to the other operations. The alternate frequencies listed below were used in the past and may or may not be used again in the future.
Frequency | Type | Tone | Description | Mode |
---|---|---|---|---|
118.775 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
119.575 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
120.850 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
122.225 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
122.425 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
122.575 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
122.675 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
122.850 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
124.375 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air Primary 2011 PK Complex Fire | AM |
126.075 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
126.250 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
127.700 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air alternate | AM |
134.075 | M | CSQ | Temporary air tanker base freq 2011 PK Complex Fire | AM |
135.325 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
135.725 | M | CSQ | Air-to-Air | AM |
Related Links
- GeoMAC fire map viewer
- National Incident Radio Support Cache
- Texas Forest Service Active Incidents on InciWeb.org
- Texas Forest Service Wildfire Activity Google Earth map
- Texas Interagency Coordination Center
- TICC Common Operating Picture Google Earth map
- TICC Current Fire Activity
- Texas Forest Service Fire Resource Map - updated daily
- TFS State Fire Operations Plan November 2010 Appendix B contains communications info and frequencies.
- Aviation Communications Frequency Plan 03/31/2011
- Wildland Fire Assessment System