Kern County is not going trunked.
They are switching county fire to their old VHF county freqs.
The sheriff channels will remain UHF but with different designations for
the areas of the county etc...
I spoke with a county radio tech about the system changes and he said
that for sure they are not going trunking because it costs too much.
The new radio plan for county fire/sheriff and other county services is
not in use yet. Motorola (the company that the county used to rebuild
the system) is still working out audio bugs and intermod problems with
the new repeaters. If you listen to the VHF fire freqs and UHF
sheriff/county services freqs you can hear Motorola doing "4 count"
testing on sunny days. The tech said that the bad weather has stalled
Motorola's progress because they are having trouble getting to some of
the snowed out repeater sites. The new systems will be much better.
Better audio and stronger signal. The tech said that they turned up the
power considerably and have added many repeaters to fill in areas. How
this info helped. Here is the webpage for the countys radio system plans
etc: http://www.co.kern.ca.us/gsd/communi...sysupgrade.asp
BTW you can get the new freqs and channel designations from the Scanner
Stuff Southern California Frequency Directory. If you still need them
let me know.