scanSydney

Thanks again everyone, I really appreciate all the help. I'm well and truly up and running now. Eliminating all those non Telco frequencies simplified things enormously, and the picture became a lot clearer. The Unication was a bit of an expense and a steep learning curve (especially as my setup use...

Is it likely to be true that when Telco (RFS) assignments exist in a town, I can rule out the old 'RFS' ones? Yes. Telco Auth took over all main active frequencies for all the gov services and is now their licensing authority/agent. Anything still RFS will be either old, simplex/portable repeater, ...

Thanks again guys, but please believe me when I say I'm well acquainted with the ACMA database and I've spent hours (days in fact, thanks Covid) sifting through page after page of data, loading it into Excel and manipulating the mother of all spreadsheets! I have no problem finding, lets say, RFS Tx...

Further question - possibly a dumb one - are GTA assignments essentially the GRN? If so that would mean the infrastructure is already in place here, and the frequencies are being used, just not yet configured into the wider network. It would also explain why there are two lots of frequencies for eac...

I've been taking radioreference with a pinch of salt - out of the handful of RFS frequencies I've been able to check, one had some digits mixed up, and another was just plain wrong. And the SES page doesn't list any of several frequencies I have actually confirmed, so I don't know what is going on t...

Thanks for the continued help guys, but it might be getting a little wide of where I'm at! I'm not actually using the G3 to scan the whole 400-470MHz range - I was just trying to describe this thing for anyone who was unfamiliar with them and curious how they operate. I have programmed in all my loc...

Thanks again TA. I mainly just want to hear rfs firecom and ses state ops when I'm going about my business. At a fire incident I'll have access to radios of course, but the G3 will be a lightweight way to monitor firecom and VHF fireground chatter from the end of a hose, as well as FRNSW/parks/fores...

So are the old RFS and SES frequencies now redundant statewide?

If a rural area like mine is using GTA frequencies, I can't imagine there would be many left holding on to the old ones?

I'm actually having a heap of fun getting this thing set up, it's a little ripper! It's very slow to scan - a 'free scan' of 400-470MHz in 12.5kHz steps would take around 10 minutes to complete a cycle. But you can create individual scan lists of up to 16 frequencies that will scan in a couple of se...

Thanks again rusty. Once I get things up and running, I will probably use the NACs - I'm a bit OCD as well, and I'm guessing that using them makes for a cleaner and tighter listening experience? I'm having a devil of a time getting this thing to work at the moment. I've given up on P25 altogether fo...