scanSydney

Thought I would use this old thread.
Far South Coast (Bega and Eurobodalla) are now on the Central Dispatch system. Needless to say the channel is a lot busier. They are still using digital PMR.
Mark

Just occurred to me that FRNSW has been using A510 here for a while, I think they might have used D510 a couple of times but for a fair while I have heard them use Analogue

Funny STP is mentioned, I heard what sounded like STP/T Bombala 230 coming down to Bega 219 a week or so ago, From memory it was a grass fire and they had to standby at Bega. I think they got called off before arriving at Bega
I thought I had misheard the callsign and had forgotten about it.

A bit before my time, I started listening around 2001

Bigfella237 wrote:And it was "KJ Goulburn" before that.

I didn't know that, must have been before I started listening

I will keep an ear out for those channels down here and report when I hear anything

I had forgotten about the KJ callsign, many years ago the cars always used to say "KJ Southern Ops" down this way.

What's the use of Telstra mobile when it's pathetic and won't work when needed for tracking? . True, good point. There us a bridge setup in one of the control centers joining the separated North and South groups (same area now but wasn't a couple of years ago pre council mergers). That bridge has a...

Why would you "hear" anything different? Are you already on GRN? . I could be wrong, but I thought in the Shoalhaven area they have a GRN TG to Sydney who tell the local Firecom who they have paged. I could have misunderstood that. I haven't heard anything like that down here in the far south coast...

tsunami_australia wrote:Probably the intro of the new pager systems.

Your probably right, the area was supposed to go over to the new system on the 11th but I haven't heard anything different, probably related to that.