Came across a number of new channels for the SE today which have been licenced in the last week or so on ACMA. Seem to be set up in three vote groups covering GLB, Yass and Crookwell. The emission designator is for digital, but as seen up the mid north coast with the expansion of digital designated channels, one of them is transmitting in analogue. Just have to wait and see whether it is digital or not?
Yass
Yass 467.8875 459.3875 Bowning Hill Trig, Yass
Canberra 469.2625 459.3875 Mt Spring
Yass 469.1750 458.3875 Mt Mundoonen
Cavan 468.9875 458.3875 Cavan Telstra Exchange (26K SW Yass)
Crookwell
Crookwell 467.9750 458.4750 8Km Nth Crookwell,Laggan Trig, Redground
Taralga 468.2375 458.4750 Mt McAlister
Bigga 468.4375 458.4750 12Km SE Bigga, Snowy Mountain
Reids Flat 469.2500 458.4750 RFS, Mt Darling 23 K West of Bigga
Tuena 468.2625 458.4750 4Km NW of Tuena
Wombeyan Caves 469.2500 458.4750 Wombeyan Caves
Goulburn
Nerriga 468.7500 458.5000 Meangora Trig, 5K W of Nerriga
Tarago 469.1250 458.5000 Tarago commsite
Goulburn 468.0000 458.5000 South Site, Mt Gray
Gunning 468.1250 458.5000 Lerida, Nth Collector
Expanding SE
Re: Expanding SE
HI all, those ones at Yass i covered a few months ago under the expanding north heading. nothing yet has happened their though?
if you have a look to the north at Marulan you'll see that its also got a new channel too and would suggest its nearly active by the folded dipoles on the site. it looks to be the sister of the Mt Gray site (Vote 35), frequency being 468.700mhz. i came across that a few weeks ago thinking it was to help portable coverage in the Marulan area.
from all that it appears their trying to rid the area of VHF.
Mt Spring isnt in Canberra too, its between Murrumbateman and the ACT border, which for the Police fixes a long standing issue with coverage as the 2 nearest VHF sites are Bowning trig or Lerida.
all this however poses an interesting question though. given we have channel W/X in sydney for visiting country cars, a lot of visiting country cars still dont have Zone 2 in their radios(a lot still run simoco's or Taits) given the acadmy and all. i wonder if their will still be a few analogue channels for them?
cheers
Matt
if you have a look to the north at Marulan you'll see that its also got a new channel too and would suggest its nearly active by the folded dipoles on the site. it looks to be the sister of the Mt Gray site (Vote 35), frequency being 468.700mhz. i came across that a few weeks ago thinking it was to help portable coverage in the Marulan area.
from all that it appears their trying to rid the area of VHF.
Mt Spring isnt in Canberra too, its between Murrumbateman and the ACT border, which for the Police fixes a long standing issue with coverage as the 2 nearest VHF sites are Bowning trig or Lerida.
all this however poses an interesting question though. given we have channel W/X in sydney for visiting country cars, a lot of visiting country cars still dont have Zone 2 in their radios(a lot still run simoco's or Taits) given the acadmy and all. i wonder if their will still be a few analogue channels for them?
cheers
Matt
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Re: Expanding SE
I heard something about P25 Tait bases going in for NSW Police country locations, but i can't find the reference
As Ivahri once said on another forum several years ago (on rr in 2006 - i was looking at it yesterday) agencies are not wasting money on analog equipment, but investing in digital
Mind you some of these hilly locations mean that several bases have to be installed to get proper coverage ... around Port Macquarie i can hear about 6 NSWFB PMR frequencies in the 410-420Mhz Band
Grant
Grant
As Ivahri once said on another forum several years ago (on rr in 2006 - i was looking at it yesterday) agencies are not wasting money on analog equipment, but investing in digital
Mind you some of these hilly locations mean that several bases have to be installed to get proper coverage ... around Port Macquarie i can hear about 6 NSWFB PMR frequencies in the 410-420Mhz Band
Grant
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Re: Expanding SE
Hi Grant,
Same thing around Crookwell- it is that hilly you need a base every 10km in many parts of the shire. The distance from Laggan Trig (known as Redgrounds by techs) to Snowy Mount isn't that far but it is mountain goat country.
Sitting up on top of Mount Darling & I can key up a heap of sites- massive heterodyne on a few channels due to frequency reuse.
I think most agencies now are only buying P25 bases even if running them in analogue. It makes no sense buying stuff that is going to need replacing in a few years. The Tait TB9100 is a nice box...
Cheers,
Richard
Same thing around Crookwell- it is that hilly you need a base every 10km in many parts of the shire. The distance from Laggan Trig (known as Redgrounds by techs) to Snowy Mount isn't that far but it is mountain goat country.
Sitting up on top of Mount Darling & I can key up a heap of sites- massive heterodyne on a few channels due to frequency reuse.
I think most agencies now are only buying P25 bases even if running them in analogue. It makes no sense buying stuff that is going to need replacing in a few years. The Tait TB9100 is a nice box...
Cheers,
Richard