Fire Season Early

[Holdenracer]

Currently there are major fires in the windsor ( hawkesbury ) area also the Blue Mountains and Londonderry
also Marsden Park @ blacktown.

Maybe some ops channels in operation? if anyone is monitoring.

Brett

[astro_boy]

Been listing to what i can throughout out the day.

There was also fire activity up north at Wyong which was getting pretty hairy at times.
Unfortunately no operation channels other then Fireground.

Was anyone listening to any online streams that were covering the fires? links? (other then those on RR)

Also sounds like trucks are having a lot of fun trying to work out what radio channel to go to.
I assume the rfs is progressing quite slow with the roll out of their new profile and its causing a bit of confusion.

Cheers

[Garry]

the fires near Wyong can be heard on The Lakes PMR and GRN channels

[BerryV]

Also sounds like trucks are having a lot of fun trying to work out what radio channel to go to.
I assume the rfs is progressing quite slow with the roll out of their new profile and its causing a bit of confusion.

Cheers

Radio traffic is nuts! What a mess!

Crews going to different channels on the same fire, radios cutting in and out, terrible firecom radio operator as well.

"Follow so far ?" whats with this crap ?

Now Firecom is currently giving a weather warning with phones ringing and screeching in the background. Control responds, sorry Firecom, an urgent call came through on another radio can you repeat.

[Scotty]

Having jut got home I wasn't sure what the best GRN channel would be to monitor.

A quick search on with Unitrunker shows the following sites are broadcasting the following (at 5:45pm):
- Horsley Park: Cumberland, Illawarra, Mcarthur, State Ops
- GPT: Hawkesbury, Cumberland, Macarthur, Warringah, State Ops

Might help somebody trying to get a specific area.

[Holdenracer]

can confirm Cumberland GD 20 and also GD 66 Ops 5 currently in use for the Marsden park fire.

can anyone advise if the Blue Mountains are using PMR or GRN for the Winmalee Fire.

haven't heard anything but maybe my location.

[matthewn1983]

I didnt hear any of the Blue Mountains fire on the RFS channels, i did hear bits and pieces on the FRNSW SO channel however, are they using P25 PMR up the mountains yet? Maybe it was on there.

[criten]

are they using P25 PMR up the mountains yet? Maybe it was on there.

Only aircraft and senior staff on the GRN. Otherwise its just 462.9 and FG chans.

NSWFR were active on what they call channels 509 & 609 today. They were calling it "fire ground" but had a radio operator from syd comms.

[BrisbaneScan]

are they using P25 PMR up the mountains yet? Maybe it was on there.

Only aircraft and senior staff on the GRN. Otherwise its just 462.9 and FG chans.

NSWFR were active on what they call channels 509 & 609 today. They were calling it "fire ground" but had a radio operator from syd comms.

509 is a Fireground Simplex channel (425.5000) and 609 is Special Operations 9 (10142)

[Garry]

did anyone menage to grab freqs being used by the media choppers ?