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Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:18 pm
by freqwaves
Thanks Col,
Most of my aerials on the roof are UHF.The D130j has the whip on top for the low VHF band.
78.775 seems to be the most readable.

John.

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:54 pm
by col05_au
John,

78.775 Is Narrow Neck fire tower south of Katoomba.

This site is linked to 77.700 Mt Tomah for coverage of the Blue Mountains park (much larger than the Blue Mtns Council area) so you will hear the same on both.

Not sure of the area's for the other channels of the top of my head. ACMA database will point you in the right direction.

Col

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:11 pm
by ivahri
Col, there is also High Range (down near Mittagong), Mt Keira and Garrawarra Farm (Royal National Park).

Cheers

Richard

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:53 pm
by col05_au
Richard,

That there is but they are on a different network to the 78.775 that John is hearing from Narrow Neck.

I'm not sure what area's / parks they cover.

I haven't had the time (I can't hear those sites from home) to work out what is linked where outside of the Blue Mountains system, do you know ?

There was a drawing around of there system I found in the web that explained it all but I can seem to find it at the moment.

There is also a new site at Mulgoa Trig too, seems to be linked to one of the Sydney systems.

Col

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:37 pm
by ivahri
Col,

Yes you are correct. I thought the question was what sites he would/could be hearing from Campbelltown. The Sydney South network is (or was- I don't know the Highband design) based on Garrawarra Hospital linking to Garrawarra Farm, Mt Keira, and High Range. The Blue Mountains network was Narrowneck, Tomah, Corricudgy (there may have been 1-2 more but you are testing my memory!). Mulgoa Trig was a standalone site but I think it now links into Garrawarra Hospital (at least according to ACMA it does).

Richard

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:29 pm
by col05_au
Richard,

we are getting a little off topic here but I can fill in a few more gaps for the Blue Mountains system

Mt Tomah, Narrowneck, Shooters Hill (Oberon) Bocoble (Mudgee), Coricudgy (Rylstone) and Coolah Tops are all normally linked together, however the system can (or used to be) able to be split in the middle to break it into Tomah, Narrowneck, Shooters Hill as one system with Bocoble, Coricudgy Coolah as the other.

If radio traffic was busy or there was numerous fires this would enable them to isolate the Mudgee and Blue Mountains regions from each other to give some more airtime.

Col

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:35 pm
by freqwaves
78.775 Is Narrow Neck fire tower south of Katoomba.
Thanks for the locations Col.

John.

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 9:41 pm
by matthewn1983
NPWS - 163.16250 241.8 (Commsite WAMBROOK TRIG)

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 11:18 pm
by Garry
163.525 ctcss 241.8 Gan Gan (Nelson Bay)
164.050 ctcss 241.8 Mt Sugarloaf also active these days

Re: National Parks & Wildlife

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:13 pm
by Wonky
ok, I'll ask - has anyone come across their channel plan from a radio... ;)