Total GRN System Shut Down

[rustynswrail]

From 2200 hours 28.03.11 the GRN will be out of service until 0000 hours. No communicate will be available according to the information I have.

This should be interesting.

R

[matthewn1983]

Thanks! Will stay up for a little bit and watch.

[matthewn1983]

11107 and 11108 reporting same thing, Due to planned outage for ALL NSW GRN sites, due 2200 to last for 2 hours, no radio comms. Asked to use mobile phones and limit any non-urgent communications.

[Bigfella237]

Zero hour plus five minutes and the South Coast sites are still online...

[Longreach]

hi all, just watching pro96.com the system rebooted at 2203hrs as a radio connected to D304 came back up and the identifier (ie base settings) came up at the same time.
however looking at the peers list some are connected some arnt some stale some good.
I wouldnt say all south coast are Andrew Camberwarra and jerrawangala are showing as failed.
cheers
Matt

[matthewn1983]

broadcast message on 11108
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9JFzIX3dFI

and.. down it goes.

[Longreach]

Interestingly the ACT arnt affected yet, showing all good.
cheers
Matt

[citabria]

Seems the sites are working in a "failsoft" mode - on GPT some units are still talking to each other just fine.

[Bigfella237]

Yes, I just checked the peer lists and you are correct Matt, everything south of Batemans Bay is still online along with all the Canberra sites but the rest appear to be offline?

[Mike Alpha]

Ambos are using their PMR channels. So far have heard activity on the Glenbrook, POW, Concord and Wahroonga repeaters.

Mike