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Posted: **Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:36 pm**

With the frequencies quoted on the ACMA website, I would doubt that it is a DMR system. Stranger things have happened of course, but I have my doubts.

R

Posted: **Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:44 am**

Yeah i think it is Dmr too. Sounds like and behaves like Dmr.

I can hear three sites from here in Port Macquarie.
Jolly Nose, Mt Cairncross and Mt Yarrahapinni.

The Port Macquarie and Middle Brother sites are not active yet so the network must be still being constructed. No sites were active as at 27/6/14, when i last checked.

Might drive up next time so i can bring all my gear. Flew this time.

Grant

Ps A Google search suggests that Fettell comms is or is preparing to be a Dmr reseller of Tait and Hytera Dmr radios. If it was a nxdn setup it would be classed as dPMR. Strange that they use the wrong emission designator for Dmr.

Posted: **Sat Sep 27, 2014 10:31 am**

I will be in Port Macquarie from Sunday for a couple of days, so i will run DSD+ and WinDSDv2 on these sites to confirm the DMR diagnosis.

Grant

Posted: **Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:15 pm**

crafty wrote:
cartman wrote:I had a quick listen a couple of days back and heard nothing, (I had line of sight with Mt Cairncross from my mothers place) so it still is being rolled out. Some of these licences appear after the service is up and running, whereas many take a long time from the appearance of the licence.

Thanks re the whole six sites - missed the other four when I was doing a "latest" search. Not the first time Fettell Comms have done interesting things ... at one stage they had several MPT1327 systems running about 7-8 years ago.

Fettel Comms
Licence 1969996, Freq 465.571875 Mhz, Input 455.571875 Mhz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site KUNDABUNG 8km SSW of Railway Station (9021250)
Licence 1969997, Freq 467.496875 Mhz, Input 457.496875 Mhz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site PORT MACQUARIE (9009271)
Licence 1969998, Freq 464.921875 Mhz, Input 454.921875 Mhz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site JOLLY NOSE HILL 19km SSW of Port Macquarie (403753)
Licence 1969999, Freq 464.696875 Mhz, Input 454.696875 Mhz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site MT YARRAHAPINNI 21km SSW of Nambucca Heads (7645)
Licence 1977000, Freq 465.671875 MHz, Input 455.671875 MHz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site MT CAIRNCROSS 24km WNW of Port Macquarie (7757)
Licence 1977001, Freq 464.771875 MHz, Input 454.771875 MHz, Emission 4K00F1WFF, Fettells Site MIDDLE BROTHER (7654)
The Mt Yarrahapinni site listed above is active with data noise for about 10 seconds, then silence for about 30 seconds, ...

Below is sample output from DSD+ with the "-fa" option: (I'm new to DSD+, so not sure what this output means yet)
-DMR CACH ERR slot1 BS DATA ERR2 CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA ERR1 CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR CACH ERR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA ERR1 CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA ERR2 CC=1 Idle
sync invalidated
Sync: no sync
Sync:-NXDN96 TS DATA
Sync: no sync
Sync:-DMR
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA ERR2 CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR CACH ERR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA ERR1 CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot1 BS DATA CC=1 Idle
-DMR slot2 BS DATA CC=1 Idle

Cheers Allison

Put WinDSDv2 on it this afternoon (28/9/14)
Confirmed DMR with Colour Code 1 ... Allison is spot on .... looks like Capacity Plus Multi Site system (Tier II i think they call it these days)

Four sites up including Port Macquarie
Cant hear Middle Brother (which is line of sight) and Kundabung (bad location from here in Port Macquarie)

Grant

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:14 pm**

Not much happening on the Fettell DMR systems last weekend. I was listening/logging Mt Cairncross on 465Mhz for a couple of minutes during a brief visit to Port Macquarie.

DSD+1.51 was deaf
WinDSDv2 didnt like it either
DMR v74 was the most useful but only logged some data

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 Rate ½ Data Continuation
000000110000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001000000011001000111111001001

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 CSBK
Preamble CSBK : Data content 4 Blocks to follow
Target Address : 14026001 Source Address : 6022

Slot Type : Colour Code 1 CSBK
Preamble CSBK : Data content 3 Blocks to follow
Target Address : 14026001 Source Address : 6022

The following 2 users were logged ..
6022 Data only (Only used channel 1)
14026001 Data only (Only used channel 1.

Six months on its pretty quiet

Posted: **Mon Mar 23, 2015 8:05 pm**

Looks like text messaging

Posted: **Mon Apr 17, 2017 8:02 pm**

I have been up at my mothers again at Port Macquarie the week before Easter and managed to log at least 1 voice call on Fettells DMR net off Middle Brother using the Whistler TRX-1.

Fettell have now added 2 sites in and around Coffs Harbour - at Raleigh and Korora

464.696875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Mt Yarrahapinni
464.771875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Raleigh
464.771875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Middle Brother
464.921875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Jolly Nose Hill
465.571875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Korora, Coffs Harbour
465.571875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Kandabung
465.671875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Mt Cairncross
466.621875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Mt Cairncross (Added June 2018)
467.496875 DMR - Fettells Comms - Port Macquarie

489.22500 DMR for Surfcom SLSA booms in locally
Heard DPI chopper call up on Surfcom on Tuesday and talk to Surfcom about the Zone 3 shark patrol.
Garry says that this is a Robinson R44 contract chopper that flies along the mid north coast but it doesnt appear on flightradar24

Also noticed that Nestle Australia maybe running NXDN simplex voice on 462.525 at their Smithtown Plant NE of Kempsey.
Havent heard it yet from Port Macquarie yet.

Now back in Sydney

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