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Did a head count today on what is left of LTR in Sydney from my location at Blacktown. Seems a lot less active these days, therefore users will be need to be re-verified (most of RR's listing are mine).

The System 2 on Sydney Tower is difficult to hear because the aerials point down horizontally - not in the vertical plane like System 1(though I can still hear it from 30km with line of sight). Some outer sites have been converted to NXDN (Blaxland) or greatly reduced - to 1 or 2 channels (eg Dural and Horsley Park with some frequencies handed over to the NXDN network)

Patrick Stevedores maybe in the middle of switching to NXDN - I can faintly hear the LTR pulse on 505.4125 and 505.71250 and what appears to be a NXDN signal on 506.3250

Grant

"VERTEL LTR500"
488.7250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Hurstville - LCN01 - Switched off 26/10/14
490.3000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2 - LCN01
490.4000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN01 - ACTIVE 26/10/14
490.4750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN02 - Switched off 26/10/14
490.5000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Dural - LCN01
490.5500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN03 - Switched off 26/10/14
490.7750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
491.1000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
491.2750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
491.4000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
491.6500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN04 - ACTIVE 26/10/14
491.8250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
492.0000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
492.4500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
492.6000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe - LCN05
492.6750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Horsley Park
492.7250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN05 - Switched off 26/10/14
492.9375 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
493.4750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
494.2250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Hurstville -LCN02- Switched off 26/10/14

"PATRICK STEVEDORES"
505.4125 Patrick Stevedores - Port Botany
505.7125 Patrick Stevedores - Port Botany
506.0250 Patrick Stevedores - Port Botany
506.3250 Patrick Stevedores - Port Botany
506.6250 Patrick Stevedores - Port Botany

GRANVILLE TAFE
487.5000 LCN01
489.2750 LCN02

0-01-123 Security


These days there seems to be three main groups of users:

Firstly - Sydney Tower System 1 - metro wide
Secondly - Sydney Tower System 2 - vicinity of Tower
Thirdly - Arncliffe - vicinity of Sydney Airport - mainly engineering

Firstly - Sydney Tower System 1 - metro wide
490.4000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN01
490.4750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN02
490.5500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN03
491.6500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN04
492.7250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 1 - LCN05
488.7250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Hurstville - LCN01
494.2250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Hurstville - LCN02
490.5000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Dural LCN01
492.6750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Horsley Park

Talkgroups
0-01-044 Event Management - Cockatoo Island Film Festival
0-02-012 Kingsgrove Buslines
0-02-018 Missionbeat
0-02-026 Plumbing
0-02-086 Security
0-03-030
0-04-019 "Red London" open-air sight-seeing buses

Secondly - Sydney Tower System 2 - vicinity of Tower
490.3000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2 - LCN01
490.7750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
491.2750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
491.8250 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2
492.4500 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Sydney Tower System 2

Talkgroups
0-01-030 Oztrek
0-01-031 Oztrek
0-01-032 Oztrek
0-01-033 Oztrek
0-01-040 "360 Dining" c/s Gallery,360 and SPB "Buffet"



Thirdly - Arncliffe - vicinity of Sydney Airport - mainly aircraft engineering
491.1000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
491.4000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
492.0000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
492.6000 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe - LCN01
492.9375 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe
493.4750 Vertel LTR500 - Tx Arncliffe

Talkgroups
0-01-005 Aircraft Engineering
0-01-010
0-02-010
0-05-014

Yes they are very quiet these days,really not worth listening to.There's also a Airport shuttle service still working on the Sydney tower LTR system on one of the following LCN:
0-01-166
0-02-026
0-05-032

John.

I'm told only a week to go before vertel shutdown. Oztrek just had their fleet changed last week to DMR Hytera's.....

That does seem to be Vertel's way of converting equipment ... turn off the frequency, pull the old stuff out then install brand new nxdn equipment

Grant

cartman wrote:That does seem to be Vertel's way of converting equipment ... turn off the frequency, pull the old stuff out then install brand new nxdn equipment

Grant

unlucky for vertel, another business got the work

The Vertel500LTR system on 490.4000,490.475,490.5500,491.6500,492.7250 is still alive and well as at 6/2/12


Grant


0-01-044
0-01-068 Security.
C/s Base, Mobile 1,2,4,5,6,7,8.
Locations: "Alpha Charlie 7,9,110,113; Alpha Foxtrot 78, Golf 5, Hotel 5, India 1,3,7; Juliet 1,5,7,9;
Code 1 = Going Off, Code 2 = Back on
0-02-012 Kingsgrove Bus Service
Confirmed still using LTR on 22/10/12
0-02-018 Missionbeat.
C/s "3", Base
0-02-026 Airport-CBD-Airport pickups/dropoffs
English and Russian spoken.
At least 27 buses in operation.
0-02-050 Skipbin pickup
0-02-051 Skipbin pickup
0-02-086 Security
C/S Alpha 2
0-02-102 Skipbin pickup
0-03-030 Container cartage.
("40 footers")
0-04-019 London style sightseeing buses
0-04-034 ??
0-05-033 Airport Pickups and dropoffs

0-02-018
0-01-068
0-04-019
0-03-030
0-05-033
0-02-051
0-02-102
0-10-147
0-02-026

still active over the last few weeks.

LTR update 22 October 2012
The Vertel 500MHz LTR system is still alive and kicking and in use by a number of customers eg 0-02-012 Kingsgrove Bus Lines
Granville Tech LTR is still functioning on 487.5000 and 489.2750 (Security 0-01-123 heard)


Grant

User group 0-01-044 heard on their home channel 490.4000 tonight off Sydney Tower

Turns out that it is the Cockatoo Island Film Festival 24-28 October 2012
Sounds like 0-01-044 is one the event management channels

http://www.cockatooisland.gov.au/events ... tival.html

Ferries leaving from King Street wharves at Darling Harbour + other limited service by Sydney Ferries


Grant

I wonder if thats got anything to do with the activity on 10010 ESO 1 - RFS radio ids, but a heap of female users, doesnt sound anything to do with RFS but.