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Have we got zone 4 sites appearing now? (Mittagong and Warragamba in the list above, plus 3 CoWs) I can confirm the 003-097 CoW is still on Mt Wandera but I'd guess not for too much longer, there's been a traffic jam of techs up there for the last couple of weeks, everyone from Telstra to the TV guy...

Yep, nasty fatal that one.

Yep, I'm still hearing that sound over the GRN talkgroups too, but, as Matt says, it only seems to be on the traffic patched-in from the PMR areas.

To be honest I was surprised that there's any analog channels still around (I bet they've got no shortage of spare portables)!

Andrew

~ By chance, is it only Unitrunker that you are seeing TG 65536 active on? ~ Ah okay, thanks Matt! I suspect that even if it's being displayed is a bug in UT, there must still be some kind of link happening between the two sites? It seems too much of a coincidence otherwise. It's not that important...

It's been ages since I had a scan around the GRN. I can't remember if it was mentioned here but site 003-029 at Mt Wandera west of Batemans Bay was lost in the bushfires 12 months ago (the entire broadcast site in fact, the heat even buckled the 300ft tower) and checking on it again now I can't beli...

In 'Motorola-speak' simplex is called "Talkaround".

~ I have no problem finding, lets say, RFS Tx frequencies. I might find 8 of them in a small town. Maybe 2 or 3 of them are Telco (RFS) and the rest are just plain RFS. I know one of those is the pager. ~ Geez, we haven't had RF pagers for ages, it's all done by text message nowadays! ~ So I guess ...

~ I also still don't really understand (sorry Bigfella, you tried to enlighten me but I'm not sure whether you confirmed or rejected my theory) whether the NSW Telco Authority assignments are indeed "the GRN", or if they are separate channels unconnected to the GRN that they are just managing? Will...

No, in that respect think of the GRN as just another agency (like fire or ambo) and the Telco Authority is just (supposedly) managing the licencing side of things for them as with (almost) all the other agencies. The Telco Authority licences each agency's frequencies under a separate ACMA Client ID....

The best thing you could do is take note of all the channels from an actual RFS radio, that will tell you what is used in any given area (a rough idea anyway), then find what BaseTX freqs are associated with those channels and confirm those freqs are present in that area from the ACMA database. All ...