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Old 78MHz rural
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 12:16 pm
by fatbastard
G'day all
Just moved up to NSW (Nyngan area) for work from Mexico (aka Victoria). I'm pretty well versed with VicPol comms (worked for them for longer than I care to remember).
What's going on with the 78MHz rural NSW frequencies? Still in use? Planned to be phased out in the near future for digital?
I had a bit of a look on the forum, and saw some talk of some new vote groups being used, but not too much more than that.
Anyone got current 78MHz frequency listings they might be willing to share?
Re: Old 78MHz rural
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:23 am
by cartman
I did a ACMA search on the Nyngan postcode
NSW Police
It appears there are three 77Mhz Police frequencies allocated in the immediate area (though you may hear others more distant)
77.5375 Tx Mullengudgery, Nynygan
77.5875 Tx Mullengudgery
77.6250 Tx Nyngan
The short term plan is to remain on 77Mhz
The medium term plan is switch to 468Mhz digital (clear mode)
The long term plan is to encrypt the 468MHz digital (as per 2015 NSW Police Handbook radio encryption policy p51-52)
467.8875 Tx Mullengudgery
469.1750 Tx Nyngan
Other Government Emergency Service Users - NSWGRN
NSW Firies, Ambos, RFS and SES are largely using the NSWGRN Site at Nyngan.
To date we are lacking certain information on the GRN site, so if you have a digital trunking scanner and/or are running Unitrunker you can help fill in some gaps
Site 203 - Nyngan
ACMA Site: 10824
Lat/Long: S31.588285 E147.181432
NAC: unknown
Ctrl Ch: 04-0594 416.1875
Alt Ctrl Ch: 04-0754 417.1875
Voice Chs: 04-0634 416.4375; 04-0674 416.6875; 04-0714 416.9375; 04-0794 417.4375
Peers/Adjacent Sites listed:
Essential Energy
Essential Energy have been allocated two UHF frequencies in the new Government Band
467.8000 Tx Mullengudgery
468.4625 Tx Nyngan Hospital
Tritton Resources
There is a large copper mine operating in the area (Tritton Resources) with 29 frequencies allocated in the high VHF and UHF Band.
However the parent company (Strait Resources) is 144 million debt and attempting to refinance their existing debt facilities ... they may not survive in the long term.