July 29 2013 posted to firerad2 sonofrcma etc
Bakersfield Ca area - wildfire radio sites
Oak Flat - has 2 repeaters for Sequoia NF + 1 repeater for BLM Fire Net (169.775R)
Breckenridge Mtn - has 2 repeaters for Sequoia NF + 1 BLM Fire rptr + 1 BLM Admin Rptr (169.725R)
Piute - 2 repeaters for Sequoia NF + 1 BLM Fire rptr
Caliente Mtn - BLM Fire rptr + 1 BLM Admin rptr
Parkridge - 2 rptrs for Sequoia NF + 1 BLM Admin rptr
From a simplistic point of view - if they just put 1 repeater at each site - they could free up 10 repeaters to place at other sites
If they expanded from 5 sites to 15 sites, they could probably have much better portable radio coverage - and even have some left over
capability in case any 1 site went down
If I had a map that showed the precise locations of the repeaters, I could do a better job of figuring this out
(Note - there are also Kern County repeaters in the area - plus probably some CalFire repeaters - plus OES repeaters (CD and Fire)) -
probably on Breckenridge at the least)