IIRC, Tac was Local car to car or direct, if you like that term better. I never used region, don’t remember. Imagine it’s exactly what it sounds like.
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Region or District was for units going from LNU to MEU or SHU, the only common channel other than state net and the camps and crew busses used that as the crews used to be all dispatched by north ops and south ops…long time ago…
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We had older ones than that when I started. Anyone remember the old Dumont?
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Yep, could barely get my hand around to push transmit button!
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The old saying was that you only talk to a person as close as you could throw the radio
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We used Region when ever we went to MMU or AEU.
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Dumont AKA “Do Nothing”
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I remember this radio and the canvas shoulder bag to carry it. 
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And the counter weight for your other shoulder to balance yourself out……
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And 35 years later the local net repeater frequencies are pretty much correct. What a world - you could time travel to now and still raise the unit ECC on the air!
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I remember Jack White telling me about the first radios CDF had in the 1950s which were Korea war surplus and had to be mounted on the running boards because there wasn’t space in the cabs. These replaced the hand-cranked telephones they used along Ponderosa Way to call in fire reports. ‘There was a phone line strung along the way and we carried climbing spurs in the trucks. You’d climb the tree, clip on the phone, and crank it 3 times to call dispatch’. Anyone know if Jack is still alive?
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There was/is a picture in the classrooms at McClellan of somebody standing on the deck of a flatbed truck, using some kind of pole to hook onto overhead phone lines like this.
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RIP chief White,
You were The Man!
Thanks for the example.
Respects,
R B2117
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