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There is also a Vertel rental frequency used for the duress alarms

487.8250 Vertel - Tx Sydney Tower 107.2 ctcss STA Logistics / Work as directed (WAD) Buses/ Workshops /Driver duress testing

Grant

Oh yeah I meant Belmore (in Sydney), sorry all. I've edited the post.

There is two new frequencies that have been registered to STA.
470.800 - Seaforth
472.450 - Sydney Twr
Have not heard anything yet on these channels but might be used for special events or backup channels.
John.

During City 2 Surf, heard callsign Operations 100 mentioned they can be contacted on channel 51 on their handheld. Also heard someone mentioning channel 52 and 65 the other day. Didn't realise STA have so many channels?

rustynswrail wrote:

matthewn1983 wrote:Thanks, will add it in. The busses are usually more reliable then RTATMC on the GRN. Just have to try ignore all the calls for faulty busses.

Which begs the question, will the buses migrate to GRN when it is P25 or remain on PMR?

Seems somewhat unusual that the buses are able to remain PMR when 1. most other agencies are being pushed to GRN and 2. the GRN covers most, if not all the bus routes and T Lane right of way.

Russell

Good point Rusty

As one or two others have commented it is a bit odd that Sydney Buses has dodged the GRN issue so far - well at least publically.
Rail is running with the GSM-R option as it has massive cost savings in the long term via GPS based solutions with the abolition of most of the current signalling technology which is capital intensive and needs highly trained staff to continuely maintain it
Not sure how the buses manage to avoid it


Grant

pks wrote:During City 2 Surf, heard callsign Operations 100 mentioned they can be contacted on channel 51 on their handheld. Also heard someone mentioning channel 52 and 65 the other day. Didn't realise STA have so many channels?

And I have heard Channel 31 and 32 referred to last week
Shouldn't be that hard to figure out
Obviously the channel position is related to their regions and their radios probably scan/vote in their regional group

Channel 1X - North
Channel 2X - East
Channel 3X - Southwest
Channel 4X - ?
Channel 5X - Inspectors
Channel 6X - ?

I will update my old list with the ACMA and see if there is any obvious way in which this logically pans out

Grant

Hmm the acma was interesting - 18 new frequencies have been added a couple months ago though it skipped my attention at the time. Bondi jct: 470.1000, 471.0000. Sydney twr: 470.3125, 472.5500, 474.0375, 474.7625. Nth seaforth 470.8000, bilgola plateau 471.0500, gpt sydney cbd 472.4500, 472.8500, 473.3375, 473.7500, 474.1500. Greenacre 472.7625, 473.5875, pennant hills 473.4875, 474.0625, 474.7750. Given the 10k1f3e emissions and srm9030 radios means p25 or p25 encryption is a distinct possibility. Grant

No activity on those channels Grant?

I think Sydney Buses would have a pretty poor excuse why they cannot move onto the GRN... lets face it they are another government department wasting tax payers money on their own PMR system...

The routes the sydney buses would take would be on the NSWGRN footprint already, and if they are worried about locations of buses use something similar to what NSWAS use to figure out where their vehicles are when they are mobile..

Despite the Premier's Directive etc etc Sydney Buses have successfully avoided GRN so far.