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New freq.

Regards Kev

kevnerd486 wrote:New freq.

Regards Kev

Bugger. Would have made it easier.

Thanks for the reply Kev.

I noticed in the Hawksbury area they put the new freq at the old analogue sites, so it was easy to do a search on the ACMA of the old sites to find the new P25 freq. I noticed that the Blue Mountains already have new P25 PMR freq listed on the ACMA but i think they are not switching over until 2014.

Regards

Kev

That will make it searching for frequencies far easier. Thanks for the tip.

Note; Wisemans ferry freq. from PMR listing not the same as Kevnerds.

E066 RFS PMR Cnv Hawksb KURRAJONG 420.2
E067 RFS PMR Cnv Hawksb BUCKETTY 422.0625
E068 RFS PMR Cnv Hawksb WISEMANS 424.025
E069 RFS PMR Cnv Hawksb GRASSY HILL 424.1

NAC 215.

Is 420.200MHz still part of the Hawkesbury PMR vote group? It seems to be simulcasting the GRN state dispatch channel.

Mike

As far as I know Mike, the RFS have been linking (combining) there different areas both PMR and GRN to a central dispatch. I only hear Hawkesbury fire comm now when there is a big incident or multiple activities across different districts that makes it too busy and they de link and revert to local fire comm commands. That’s just my guess from listing, someone with more envolved knoledge May be able to clarify more.

Regards

Kev

Cheers Kev. It's getting very convoluted.

Mike

Yes, I liked very much having my local freq in a scanner that I carried everywhere living in the bush to alert me to local fire incidents, but now that freq is constant traffic and it’s not so useful because the constant traffic makes you tune out.

Regards

Kev

As someone in comms (no brigades or areas mentioned other than EAST rg) I tell you the central dispatch is a bloody ridiculous joke. The people are fine and what not and I get switching over to it at night. BUT they've canned 90% of comms brigades' shifts and activity for no good reason at all. Now since most are fed up wtih the treatment of it the comms brigades are bleeding badly. 3 brigades in the merged area here have gone from a healthy membership of well over a dozen to being lucky to have 6-7 members who actively participate (OR AT ALL).

The biggest joke of it is they've stated that CD cannot handle a large event (say a section 44 in an area) and would need to switch over to local comms brigades but there are next to no members left to take over and when there is they are that rusty that it takes precious time to get back in the flow. They've cited mock training etc but if you're anything like me you just cannot take a mock seriously and it's not the same or with the same benefit.

On the listening side of it, bloody annoying as all F!!! We've gone from very little air traffic even in a LARGE area to not stop won't shutup. I've gone from 100% monitoring in the background to a state of I CBF. It's already fallen over a few times with too many incidents for them to handle and I have a recording here somewhere of a brigade calling blue who'd just been paged to a structure fire being told to stand by so they could go to a yellow call and then forgot about that brigade entirely (nice priorities there for ya). Then there are the physical infrastructure issues where we have a number of sites it seems that are 100% solar powered and the extra traffic just took them over the edge. We spent 1-2 WEEKS with 1 or more sites in a particular area just totally non-functional (but hey because of some dumkopf in standards department they can afford to waste money on a brand spanking new metal tower around 50ft tall at all control centres which are totally unneccessary).