Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

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kevnerd486
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Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by kevnerd486 » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:31 pm

Hawkesbury RFS are currently testing on 420.200Mhz P25 of kurrajong.

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Kev

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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by citabria » Tue Jun 11, 2013 6:44 pm

The buggers are on 70cm!!

Oh wait.. hang on.. no they're not...

:lol:

kevnerd486
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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by kevnerd486 » Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:12 pm

Looks like the cut over date may be next Monday if all goes well.

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Kev

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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by Longreach » Wed Jun 12, 2013 8:20 pm

Hi all,
If its anything like how the new RFS P25 system is down here, it will be absolutely 100% crystal clear. Sounds sensational down here.
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Matt
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ivahri
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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by ivahri » Wed Jun 12, 2013 9:43 pm

P25 done properly should be Matt!

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Richard

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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by kevnerd486 » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:43 pm

It sounds pretty good at the moment, lot of testing today and discussion about going live, ( the Uniden HP record function works great) reviewed all the traffics when I got home tonight. There is a problem with low audio from headquarters but they know about that.

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Kev

Mike Alpha
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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by Mike Alpha » Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:07 pm

I've lost track of why the RFS is going P25 PMR considering they've just migrated to the GRN.

Will the GRN still be their main comms network?

Mike

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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by matthewn1983 » Wed Jun 12, 2013 11:09 pm

Most likely run side by side, alot of areas where the GRN doesnt cover, but RFS have exisiting coverage via PMR.

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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by Longreach » Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:12 am

Hi all, We run both P25 PMR and GRN side by side, no bridge available. There is a fair chunk of area that has no GRN coverage so if 2 major incidents pop up the one in the GRN footprint will get shunted to that, and the other will stay on PMR. They have done it this way here for a couple of years.
The Primary or default comms is PMR however.
On the old PMR they had the ability to drop the links to utilise the 3 seperate FCC's into 3 areas. with the common input they cant do that now.
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Matt
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Re: Hawkesbury RFS District going P25 PMR

Post by JimK » Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:19 pm

How do the volunteers feel about the change over?
I would imagine a lot of volos who are not really into investing into a digital scanner, would have old analogue radios that will feel put out?

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