Wollongong & Katomba Comm's to Close

[Bigfella237]

Poor old Hazmat Tankers are having a hard time, not only with the change to "Firecom" but they have apparently been renamed from "Hazmat Tanker xxx" to "Composite xxx" as well!

Andrew

[rustynswrail]

This is going to end in tears.

Apparently the new system is providing operators with long & lat, not map numbers and references. The operators are happy people either.

R

[rustynswrail]

Also, is it my imagination, or does the audio on some of the TG's (off GPT) sound tinny? It seems to have lost that nice solid bass sound.

R

[ivahri]

I guess the answer to that Rusty is that some would be coming down from Newcastle now while others would be out of Alex. Any particular talkgroup?

Cheers,

Richard

[rustynswrail]

I guess the answer to that Rusty is that some would be coming down from Newcastle now while others would be out of Alex. Any particular talkgroup? Cheers, Richard

Richard
10101 and 10103 are two that seem to be less bassy than before.


R

[ivahri]

Listened to 10101 and couldn't detect any difference with the operator audio. If anything 10102 sounded marginally louder- could be a variation in console positions as the difference would need to be at the operator audio stage. Let me know if you hear the issue change talkgroup...

Cheers,

Richard

[Chrisco]

The Fire-comm call sign has thrown me a bit although some are still saying "Sydney Comms" "Comms" and just their station number "P37 blue"

[JAFO]

off lambton I am hearing tgs 10112/10114 and 10129/10130,,,,,, other areas such as western syd are not being heard yet

Just becourse Newcastle has taken over some of the Sydney Talkgroups, does not mean they will be patched into existing Newcastle Talkgroups that you will hear in the Hunter Region. I would suspect those Sydney and Katoomba Radio Traffic could simply linked into Newcastle Comm's via a landline or Data Link of some kind and not necessarily via a live radio link.

[ivahri]

I'll have a go at explaining things...

JAFO is correct about how radio traffic finds its way to an operator- the operator consoles are linked by redundant data links back to the GRN NOCC. In effect the operators normally have a direct connection into the GRN. Every operator has access to every FRNSW talkgroup & PMR network by just using their mouse. Each area has its own "profile" so the operator controlling south selects a profile that contains the talkgroups/PMR for that area. Same for north, same for west, same for Sydney.

You most likely will start hearing western Sydney in Newcastle tomorrow- that is because there is a "back up" radio at Newcastle which is used in the event the data link to the NOCC fails or is being serviced. The changes to these radios will go live TOMORROW. The radios are installed & ready to go & will be switched on when the boys with the pips say GO!

Cheers,

Richard

[Longreach]

Hi all,
ok in the case in my area where Crookwell is on its own in a PMR area and out of range of the GRN, how does it get its link back to sydney?
might sound like a silly question but am curious?
cheers
Matt