1. Boulder County Frequency Name Change NEW NAMES, OLD FREQUENCIES

2. Why are we doing this?  Consistency with national standards  Consistency with the neighboring agencies  Longmont  SO  BFD  Move more capable channels to preferred status

3. Changes on VHF Side  Red 1 becomes “County Fire”  Red 2, 3,4,5, and 7 become FTAC2, FTAC3, FTAC4, FTAC5, FTAC7  Red 6 becomes CMD (pronounced C-M-D)  Repeated channel reserved for longer distance on-scene comms  New FTAC6 and FTAC8 channels

4. 800 MHz  800 MHz talk groups still patched to VHF channels  VHF County Fire patched to BCFire talk group  VHF FTAC2, FTAC3 patched to 800 MHz FTAC2, FTAC3  BCEMS talk group is new BC FCMD  Patched to new VHF CMD channel  New 700 MHz talk Group 7GTAC57  Patched to VHF FTAC8  We don’t have 7GTAC57 in our radios yet  Need to confirm with MV if they have it

5. Best Practices  FTAC channels are all simplex  Radio to radio  Best choice for on-scene communications  CMD channel is repeated  Radio to relay receiver, Retransmitted on County transmitters  Useful for wide-area coverage  Need to be able to hit the relay receiver

6. Patched Talk Groups-Watchout  Similar to repeated channels  Radio to VHF remote receiver. Retransmitted on state DTR network  Need to hit the VHF remote receiver  FTAC2 receiver is on Airport Road, behind Boulder Airport hill  State DTR to Boulder transmitter (Simplex) to local radio  If out of range of the transmitter (Simplex), no communication  Do not depend on these patches without testing first

7. I.A. 205 Plan

8. Extended Ops 205 Plan

9. Implementation  Go Live Date – November 9  Still expect FTAC3 to be first assigned, may get any other FTAC if busy  Can request CMD if it is useful  Operations with MV, request FTAC3, Red NW, then FTAC2  Operations with BFR, request FTAC3, then any other FTAC  We have sent all this to them to brief the changes  Program VHF close to November 9  Program 800, TBD

10. Scenarios  Structure Fire - 7478 Park Circle, Fire on second floor, BC corner  2301, 2401, 2204, 2506, 2516, A12, 2361, 2362  Which tactical channel?  Which alternate tactical channel  Wildland Fire – 8000 block of North 39 th Street, north around Table Mountain  2301, 2341, 2360, 4131, 2831, 2234, 4031, 4061, 4162, 2260, 2861  Which command channel?  Which tactical channels?