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I recognise that radio traffic

Yeh, what Matt and Richard said. If you really must support the antenna in the middle, you need to have say a metal mast with say a 2 metres plastic or conduit (only) section immediately prior to the antenna. This is not recommended though, you miss out on the earthing as stated above. As Matt said ...

Hope it's ready soon

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freqwaves wrote:Does it sit up there next to the big microwave tower?
Might get put to better use when they build Badgerys creek airport!

John.

Yep, thats the one. The microwave tower is Telstra. And yes, quite useful for Badgerys Creek I woul say

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matthewn1983 wrote:ADF Modernised High Frequency Communications System (MHFCS)
VCN (*Voice Contact Net*)

4 Nodes (North West Cape, Darwin, Townsville, Riverina)

VCN 1 - 22868 KHz
VCN 2 - 5878 KHz
VCN 3 - 9340 KHz
VCN 4 - 15962 KHz
VCN 5 - 12172 KHz

Thanks

Any chance of a listing of the VCNs?

Unless there is anything brand new, the so called GRN portable site is sitting at Dubbo and has been for around 10 years. There are quite a few issues with a portable site. Frequency assignments deopending on area / other 400 - 420 channels being used, as base stations need to be reprogrammed and c...

I know Col05 is busy, but basically there was a major issue with Blue Mountains PMR system with one of their sites, hence the quick move to GRN. As mentioned in other parts of the forum, we have have experienced numerous busies in the mountains this week with Tomah coping the most traffic. Is there...

I think you will find it was no wreckage and yes a pill bottle. I was involved, providing comms for BWRS and working with Police Comms. Was debriefed by Police Commmander no mention of wreckage. Only pill bottle. You never know there may be a different announcement but the word of wreckage would hav...

The Kurrajong GRN site is getting so much traffic that it is putting traffic on the alternate CC freq (which it doesnt normaly do) Seems to be happening all over the place. I'm at home now and on UniTrunker I'm seeing the same overflow on Horsley, Glenbrook, Explorers. Users must be getting 'busies...