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Geez, we haven't had RF pagers for ages, it's all done by text message nowadays! Still 100% pagers (the old POCSAG kind done with SPOK) here. I think OCC when they're on has BART but until OCA comes in and training is done (IF and when) it's still old school everything here. (I say IF because initi...

I wouldn't because the fireground simplex stuff is still RFS not telco as far as I'm aware.

I think this post has had enough explainations.

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, ...

Poohab I think you may be getting confused and usually RR is good with the frequency listings. The 2 frequencies you speak of could be tx and rx of the tower? "How can I get the frequencies from an APX? " FORGET IT! You NEED a copy of the ASK (Advanced System Key) they use for auth and to lock every...

Apologies if offsite linking to other similar sites is out (can't find it here though) but if you look at the P25 listings here in the link you'll see the channels for each region that isn't on the GRN. There have been a few updates to the codeplugs in the last 12 months but I think that's more to d...

For RFS and SES that are off the GRN there is a few sites with all the listings. For GRN the older control channel frequencies are listed in a few places but the new ones are not as yet.

"so I was confused how the RFS could use one frequency in town A, and another one in town B, and yet the radio would work on both without manually switching. I figured it was using a kind of trunking. and that I would need some codes to play along." No it's not trunking or anything remotely like it....

I can't speak for SES which I beleive is mostly UHF PMR, but NSW RFS is now all VHF hi fireground portables, UHF 411meg odd simplex (FM and P25 on the same frequencies), 420meg P25 vote PMR and GRN. You will see with a quick search the VHF and UHF fireground channels eg F01 SIM ANLG (an old FOPS cha...

The way this thing works, If I can reduce the number of frequencies I need to scan then I can increase the number of alternative configurations to try in a given scan list. I'll keep you posted! Not sure how different it is to my old 996T but my 996T is near flamin' useless scanning a heap of conve...

~ Talkgroups are NOT used in emergency services conventional voting systems ~ You obviously don't log NSWPF channels! 8-) Andrew Nope encrypted terrorists aren't worth watching :P though they weren't playing with talkgroups in this area pre encryption so they must have changed some things if they'r...