Newcastle Fire
Newcastle Fire Department
Newcastle, AR
This is another small, rural fire department that, thankfully, doesn’t get many requests for service. I’m guessing the St. Francis County PSAP is handling their calls. The only radio traffic I’ve heard has been administrative in nature, so I don’t know what their radio procedure is like.
The Newcastle Fire Department is dispatching on their own single-channel, analog, VHF duplex repeater system, operating under FCC callsign WQHS418. The antenna is 230 feet above the ground on a water tower just off Highway 284 in the Newcastle area.