Happenings
Recent Happenings around the Highland Fire Department
REPEATER NEWS
The new repeater is up and running but still some work to be done at the PD. We have been using it
as a fire ground frequency. Some of the HT's have been done and we are
testing out the coverage. The new frequency will go in Channel 1 of alll the FD radios.
Channel 2 will be our paging and Firebase frequency. Channel 3 will Mutual Aid, Channel 4 will stilll be Fireground. The remaining frequencies will be
determined by how many channels each radio has but Channel 5 will now be Griffith and the rest just bumped up one. The system will be set up so that the PD
dispatcher will simultaneously broadcast on both the repeater output and the old paging frequency.
If you have a scanner, the new repeater frequencies are: 151.0025 out, 158.8875 in. Set your scanner to listen to the out frequency. If you cannot program in
these 12.5Khz frequencies, put the closest one that you can, i.e. 151.0000. The repeater is strong enough that you should be able to hear it in town.
OTHER NEWS

I have removed all of the members email addressed due to the email address gathering robots used by the spammers!
Congratulations to the Snyders on the birth of their Grandson, William James. According to Bill, William and Mom are doing just fine .

We have moved the website to a new server and have a new and I might add, our own web address. This is due to the town's consolidating all Internet services under one roof.
Working with Ed Dabrowski, we, the FD, have managed to keep our own site as long as I or my designee maintain it. There have been many minor changes and the move has been
has been rather transparent. We will be shutting down the old URL soon. The email for the department will also change to fire@highlandfd.com .
What do you think about adding a chat page to the site? I have found some software that we could use. Please get back to me about this.

I hope to be adding a new page for fire pictures soon, if we ever have any!
I have added a new page for pictures from the membership. If anyone has any interesting photos of their kids, grandkids, vacations or whatever, please get
to me via my mail slot or digitally via email. I have the means to scan in photos.
Until next time,
Clarke

If you have any more interesting stories or jokes please email them to me and I will post them here.
Clarke Gholson
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