Sutherland RFS

[Austwolf]

Sutherland RFS is now on Digital GRN

[Longreach]

took them long enough. i saw someone here on the weekend trying to listen to it via the old 4.1 system.

[centralcoastscanman]

but are they all on grn or are they doing what some districts are doing and thats is bridging their pmr network onto p25grn...

[nem]

Sutherland uses GRN for primary comms, and doesn't have any bridging technology deployed.
The PMR network (3 sites) is used as both a backup, as well as a tactical channel for divisional comms during HRs or incidents.

[cartman]

I think last weekend was "moving" weekend for RFS Sutherland
I heard Sutherland Firecoms plus Grays Pt PC late on Sunday and a check of Unitrunker Retro showed a host of loggings that day for Talkgroup 10075 .... all with their own unique radio ID.
In fact I had over 700 hits over the weekend on the P25 talkgroup by radios
The other areas don't appeared to have moved across enmasse.

Grant

[centralcoastscanman]

Gosford RFS have not
The Lakes have not

Hornsby appear to still by using a bridge onto p25grn...

[Garry]

The Lakes moved last friday, as well as Hunter.. I have also heard Gosford on air

[Bigfella237]

Think yourselves lucky, the Far South Coast Team is scheduled to move on the 10th of NEVER!

I personally know of three brigades which have virtually no PMR coverage at their stations, who have been begging to move to the GRN and are repeatedly told that "it's too expensive", meanwhile they have to dance a jig on the driveway of the station just to get details of a firecall?

Andrew

P.S. And yes, there is full portable GRN coverage at all three of the above locations

[system_tech]

ha ... duty of care .. GRN should be used in those circumstances!

OH, yes, and a Premiers Directive to boot.

Never let a Premier's Directive, safety and common sense get in the way of brownie points for reducing a budget.

[centralcoastscanman]

yeah exactly, and my finance director at work says the grn is no good based on her experiences over 5 years ago when the network was designed to only use mobile radios...

I can hardly wait until they force these government departments over to the grn so i can sit back laughing at them...

can anyone advise does grn have the facility that you can enable gps tracking on radios ? (I'm curious more than anything)