[WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

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[WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by Bigfella237 » Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:40 pm

It's been a rainy day here but I haven't been bored thanks to Cartman, who sent me a heap of ACMA info on the West Australian Emergency Radio Network (WAERN) this morning.

Unfortunately there is little to no information on this system, it is a P25 Trunking system (compatible with all other statewide government trunk systems except Tasmania), but that's about it. I spent an hour or so searching and cannot even find a SYSID (although cartman advised a NAC of "1A0"), however I assume it would be under the same WACN ID as the other systems ("BEE00") as it would be silly not to allow for some liaison between the states.

It seems there are 78 trunking sites at the moment, which I have added to a new WAERN Google Map, however there is also supposed to be some tie-in with several hundred other single-frequency sites that I don't fully understand, whether these are set-up as single frequency trunk sites or just part of a P25 PMR network patched into certain talkgroups? I don't know but I haven't listed those single-frequency sites below.

If anyone has any information on site numbers etc. please add it below. I haven't bothered gathering frequency information, you can get it off the ACMA pages if needed. And I'm not sure how much more work I'm prepared to put into this list unless we can find some additional info, it's a little pointless having "Unknown Site #" on everything?

The 78 trunking sites are as follows:

Unknown Site # - ALBANY (Mt Adelaide Forts Road) - ACMA Site: 601143
Unknown Site # - BAKERS HILL (GSM Site Avon Location 9497) - ACMA Site: 601288
Unknown Site # - BALDIVIS (WAWA Tower Tamworth Hill Mandurah Road) - ACMA Site: 601105
Unknown Site # - BEDFORDALE (Broadcast/Comm Site Lot 10 Canns Rd) - ACMA Site: 151216
Unknown Site # - BICKLEY (Tower TXA Bickley Site Television Road) - ACMA Site: 26647
Unknown Site # - BINNINGUP (GSM site lot 6 Binningup Road Myalup) - ACMA Site: 601131
Unknown Site # - BOULDER (Celebration Rd Mount Hunt Kalgoorlie) - ACMA Site: 101191
Unknown Site # - BOUVARD (Duck Pond Lot 721 Mt John Rd) - ACMA Site: 131727
Unknown Site # - BRUNSWICK JUNCTION (Optus Site Partridge Rd) - ACMA Site: 600480
Unknown Site # - BULLSBROOK (Lot 8, Wandena Road) - ACMA Site: 9008784
Unknown Site # - BUNBURY (Boulters Heights Lot 23 Withers Crescent) - ACMA Site: 27784
Unknown Site # - BUSSELTON (Cmts Site Queen Elizabeth Avenue) - ACMA Site: 28070
Unknown Site # - BYFORD (Lot 57 Barge Drive) - ACMA Site: 27415
Unknown Site # - CANNING MILLS (Doss Site Canning Mills Road) - ACMA Site: 26955
Unknown Site # - CANNING VALE (Hakea Prison 479 Warton Road) - ACMA Site: 9008780
Unknown Site # - CAPEL (Optus Site Capel Hutton Rd) - ACMA Site: 135308
Unknown Site # - CASUARINA (288 Orton Road) - ACMA Site: 27328
Unknown Site # - CENTRAL PARK (152 to 158 St Georges Terrace Perth) - ACMA Site: 25937
Unknown Site # - CITY BEACH (Water Corporation Tower Bold Park) - ACMA Site: 50805
Unknown Site # - COOLGARDIE (Microwave Site Emu Hill 10km N of) - ACMA Site: 29396
Unknown Site # - DAMPIER (WAWA Site Dewitt Location 154 Burrup Road) - ACMA Site: 32116
Unknown Site # - DONGARA (CMTS Site Dee Street Port Denison) - ACMA Site: 132347
Unknown Site # - DUNSBOROUGH (Comm Site Caves Rd) - ACMA Site: 600684
Unknown Site # - DWELLINGUP (Teesdale Hill off Pinjara Williams Road, 2.75 km WSW of) - ACMA Site: 9008851
Unknown Site # - EAST BORNHOLM (Lot 131 40 Mountain Road) - ACMA Site: 9016346
Unknown Site # - FLORIDA (WAWA Caddadup Tank Old Coast Road) - ACMA Site: 601099
Unknown Site # - FOREST HILL (Dardelup Road) - ACMA Site: 9016345
Unknown Site # - FREMANTLE (WA Police Site Swanbourne Street) - ACMA Site: 27188
Unknown Site # - GELORUP (Telstra PMTS Site Calingup Road) - ACMA Site: 600776
Unknown Site # - GERALDTON (Telstra Site Moresby Range) - ACMA Site: 600774
Unknown Site # - GIDGEGANNUP (Smiths Mill Hill) - ACMA Site: 26457
Unknown Site # - GINGIN (Pt Swan Location 113 Coleman Way) - ACMA Site: 132579
Unknown Site # - GOLDEN BAY (Comm Site Crystaluna Drive) - ACMA Site: 601172
Unknown Site # - GREENMOUNT (WA SES Site Padbury Road) - ACMA Site: 26447
Unknown Site # - GREENOUGH (Lot 11750 Narngulu Road) - ACMA Site: 31028
Unknown Site # - GUILDERTON (Lot M801 Guilderton Rd 5 km NE of) - ACMA Site: 600725
Unknown Site # - HACKETTS GULLY (Wawa Site Mt Gungin) - ACMA Site: 26651
Unknown Site # - HARVEY (Telstra Site CMTS) - ACMA Site: 600634
Unknown Site # - JARRAHDALE (Karnet Prison Communications Site Kingsbury Drive) - ACMA Site: 9008782
Unknown Site # - KALGOORLIE (Telstra Radio Terminal Near Mt Charlotte) - ACMA Site: 29537
Unknown Site # - KAMBALDA (Telstra Microwave Site Alan Hill) - ACMA Site: 30092
Unknown Site # - KARRATHA (Jaburara Heritage Trail Lookout Site) - ACMA Site: 600447
Unknown Site # - KOONDOOLA (Mirrabrooke Reservoir Koondala Avenue) - ACMA Site: 130140
Unknown Site # - KWINANA BEACH (Comms site Kwinana speedway complex) - ACMA Site: 51045
Unknown Site # - LAKE PRESTON (CMTS Site Hampden Hampden Tower Road) - ACMA Site: 27579
Unknown Site # - LANCELIN (Police site Karakin Lakes Road, 9 km SW of) - ACMA Site: 9008721
Unknown Site # - MANDURAH (Police Complex Cnr Mandurah Bypass & Pinjarra Rds) - ACMA Site: 602633
Unknown Site # - MIDDLE SWAN (Police Site Bandyup 100 Middle Swan Rd) - ACMA Site: 9012412
Unknown Site # - MILLENDON (WA Government Railways Ch22 Site) - ACMA Site: 26461
Unknown Site # - MINDARIE (Crown Castle Site Cnr Mulgrave Loop and Bergen Way) - ACMA Site: 130852
Unknown Site # - MOSMAN PARK (Wellington St Water Tower) - ACMA Site: 26120
Unknown Site # - MOUNT WELCOME (Broadcast Australia Site off Fisher Drive) - ACMA Site: 151680
Unknown Site # - MT BARKER (Broadcast Australia Site Tower Road) - ACMA Site: 41036
Unknown Site # - MUNSTER (Wawa Site off Henderson Road East Reservoir) - ACMA Site: 27318
Unknown Site # - MURDOCH (Rangeview Remand Centre Murdoch Drive) - ACMA Site: 9012971
Unknown Site # - NORTHAM (Vodafone tower Fox Family Farm Fox Road) - ACMA Site: 601142
Unknown Site # - NOWERGUP (Hill T Charles Searson Lookout) - ACMA Site: 44814
Unknown Site # - OCEAN REEF (Shoran Court Reserve) - ACMA Site: 26265
Unknown Site # - PARKERVILLE (Airservices Site off Beacon Road) - ACMA Site: 26655
Unknown Site # - PERTH (Perth Stadium Victoria Park Dve) - ACMA Site: 10007574
Unknown Site # - PINJARRA (CMTS Site off Scarp Road) - ACMA Site: 27479
Unknown Site # - PORT HEDLAND (Telstra South Hedland Exchange) - ACMA Site: 35723
Unknown Site # - ROEBOURNE (Telstra Dixon Microwave Site) - ACMA Site: 36709
Unknown Site # - ROTTNEST ISLAND (Lighthouse) - ACMA Site: 27193
Unknown Site # - SAWYERS VALLEY (Microwave Site Great Eastern Highway) - ACMA Site: 26601
Unknown Site # - SERPENTINE (SECWA Site R107 off Scrivener Road) - ACMA Site: 27430
Unknown Site # - SOUTH BOULDER (Kalgoorlie Prison 150 Vivian Street) - ACMA Site: 9023431
Unknown Site # - TOODYAY (Jimperding Hill) - ACMA Site: 26426
Unknown Site # - TORNDIRRUP (Albany Prison Princess Road) - ACMA Site: 9016343
Unknown Site # - TWO ROCKS (WAWA Tanks) - ACMA Site: 26294
Unknown Site # - WAGERUP (Western Power Site) - ACMA Site: 27597
Unknown Site # - WALKAWAY (Martin Farm Hill East 1059 Hamersley Road) - ACMA Site: 9010682
Unknown Site # - WANERIE (Cail property Lot 51, 106 Cowalla Road) - ACMA Site: 9010935
Unknown Site # - WANNEROO (Doss Site High Road) - ACMA Site: 26566
Unknown Site # - WATERMAN (Water Tower Hale Street) - ACMA Site: 26205
Unknown Site # - WILLYUNG (Rocky Crossing Road) - ACMA Site: 9016344
Unknown Site # - WOOROLOO (SECWA Site) - ACMA Site: 31190
Unknown Site # - YANCHEP (Water Tower Hill) - ACMA Site: 26283

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Re: [WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by Bigfella237 » Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:25 pm

Apologies, the WAERN Map should now be viewable. It's been a while since I setup a new map and I forgot that they default to the "private" setting, should be all better now.

I started checking frequencies on these trunk sites, which lead me to adding microwave links, which lead me to adding PMR sites, and now it's all kinda spiraling out of control!

But it's obvious that I will need to check because I've already found one additional trunk site that wasn't in the original list, so I expect there will be others.

I just wish we could find some details of the system / sites / channels / etc.

Andrew

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Re: [WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by frankc » Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:25 pm

Bigfella237 wrote:Apologies, the WAERN Map should now be viewable. It's been a while since I setup a new map and I forgot that they default to the "private" setting, should be all better now.

I started checking frequencies on these trunk sites, which lead me to adding microwave links, which lead me to adding PMR sites, and now it's all kinda spiraling out of control!

But it's obvious that I will need to check because I've already found one additional trunk site that wasn't in the original list, so I expect there will be others.

I just wish we could find some details of the system / sites / channels / etc.

Andrew
I believe they're Department of Corrections Digital Network if they're licensed to WA Police and are P25 digital encrypted - as far as I am aware DFES are still analogue on a mixture of VHF mid and hi band as well as in the 467-469MHz range.

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Re: [WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by Bigfella237 » Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:12 am

Thanks Frank,

Do you have or know anyone who has any details on the system itself? I'm not so much interested in the users or talkgroups etc., I'm just trying to put a site number to the sites if possible?

This is just general information that can be gathered by monitoring the control channels of each site with Unitrunker or DSD+ or Pro96Com or any digital trunk tracker scanner, nothing to do with encryption so no 'security issues'.

Also, details of the bandplan(s) in use would be great too, that way we should be able to tell what frequencies to expect.

Andrew

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Re: [WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by matthewn1983 » Sat May 02, 2020 11:16 am

Bandplan for WAERN

Network: BEE00.1AD

Bandplan #2: Base=502.09375 Offset=+10 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #3: Base=462.0000 Offset=-9.5 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #4: Base=469.9875 Offset=+5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #5: Base=485.1875 Offset=-5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #6: Base=489.9875 Offset=+5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #7: Base=499.9875 Offset=+10 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5

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Re: [WA] Emergency Radio Network (WAERN)

Post by frankc » Sat May 02, 2020 3:07 pm

matthewn1983 wrote:Bandplan for WAERN

Network: BEE00.1AD

Bandplan #2: Base=502.09375 Offset=+10 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #3: Base=462.0000 Offset=-9.5 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #4: Base=469.9875 Offset=+5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #5: Base=485.1875 Offset=-5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #6: Base=489.9875 Offset=+5.2 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Bandplan #7: Base=499.9875 Offset=+10 Spacing=6.25 BW=12.5
Only Bandplan 2 is WAPOL/DEpt of Crrections P25 Trunked Encryption

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