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Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:22 am
by cartman
A lot of npws information became known several years ago when they were tendering for comms companies to maintain their regional vhf 78mhz radio networks - the information was available to the general public on their website. The radio network was shown as a series of schematic diagrams
Grant
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:48 pm
by matthewn1983
Starting to see a fair bit of use on the new 160mhz band from NPWS, couple of sites have become active in the last 2 days.
162.40000 241.8 - 'wollongong base'
162.32500 241.8 - garrawarra
162.35000 241.8 -
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 9:32 am
by Bigfella237
I was just wondering if there might be an ulterior motive for the move to the higher band, or at least a convenient side effect...
Moving to this band allows NPWS to make use of dual-band radios (like the Motorola APX7000/7500), allowing them to have both their own VHF network and the NSWGRN in the one radio.
Andrew
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:20 pm
by criten
Got a hit today for 162.35... didn't manage to get the CTCSS however it was a helitak talking to oberon base... I was hoping to get a hit from narrow neck... close enough
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:20 pm
by BerryV
Bigfella237 wrote:I was just wondering if there might be an ulterior motive for the move to the higher band, or at least a convenient side effect...
Moving to this band allows NPWS to make use of dual-band radios (like the Motorola APX7000/7500), allowing them to have both their own VHF network and the NSWGRN in the one radio.
Andrew
Not much low band stuff out there these days. The change to VHF Mid would be ideal to talk on RFS fireground ?
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:23 pm
by criten
BerryV wrote:Not much low band stuff out there these days. The change to VHF Mid would be ideal to talk on RFS fireground ?
I imagine aviation too
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:29 pm
by BerryV
criten wrote:BerryV wrote:Not much low band stuff out there these days. The change to VHF Mid would be ideal to talk on RFS fireground ?
I imagine aviation too
The birds ive been in run Simoco SRM9000's on lowband but that was a while ago now
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:12 am
by cartman
Listening from Port Macquarie I heard Park Air 4 chopper talking to a ground station on 163.0625 241.8 re Stockyard Creek fire
Grant
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:29 pm
by Farsouthscanner
I am getting them on 163.4375, CTCSS of 241.8 from Mumbulla mountain near Bega
Edit: also hearing them on 163.925 with the same CTCSS tone from Mumbulla. The two channels aren't linked though.
Re: National Parks & Wildlife
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:49 am
by Scotty
Wonky wrote:ok, I'll ask - has anyone come across their channel plan from a radio...
I've got a list from circa 2008, but it only has 70/80MHz (low) channels, not the 160/170MHz (mid) channels that are showing up. If you think it may help I'll post the info here.
EDIT:
Actually, no point me posting - virtually the same info is on RR:
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=3215
Appears the low band net is gone, replaced with the mid band net:
http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/ma ... ritage.pdf