[TheList] FENZ Sel-Call?

Sun Jan 12 11:44:16 AEDT 2020

Hi Mike,

421 will be an I-band link.   The different repeaters are linked up via these links to make up vote groups (obviously the codeplug has voting groups too)   the ESA frequencies will still very much be in use. 

The selcall issue your experiencing isn't actually an issue.   Not all channels are fully linked together.  Selcall from different votegroups isn't ways sent through, however you still hear carrier with no audio.  

IE for Auckland fire 4 (which is linked to Fire 3 and Whangarei Fire) then if an appliance transmits a selcall and acknowledgement on either whangarei or fire3, you don't hear the selcalls.   If I switched to fire3, I would, but then I'd miss fire4 and whangarei selcalls.   Another possibility is not having a full patch, ie with the Waikato/BOP fire channels... In Hamilton, I'll hear firecomm and Tauranga talking, but only the appliance/firecomm selcall (not the acknowledgement selcalls) 

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On 12 January 2020 1:30:37 pm NZDT, Mike Trump <mtrump at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>Hi there Guys,
>I've had my radio install in bits lately, due to some reno work in my 
>workshop.
>Yesterday I hooked up my UBCT8 to a very simple aerial to see what was 
>happening, using the two
>frequencies 75.7125 MHz ( Central Canterbury Fire Exclusive) and
>75.6000 
>MHz (South Canterbury Fire Exclusive),
>at the moment I can hear Rangiora and St Andrews at a couple of jobs, 
>they are using Sel-Call tones via their MSU's.
>However, Harewood and Spreydon are also at jobs, and I can get the 
>verbals (like Sit-reps and Stops), but there are no
>actual Sel-Call tones for any changes of Status?, there is what you 
>would call a short "carrier drop" every now and then.
>Are the Career brigades using a different status system to the
>Volunteer 
>brigades/
>Has anyone else struck this?
>One other thing, I looked at RadioWiki and for Ashburton, it states
>that 
>this brigade is now on 421.3125 MHz for dispatch?
>To be fair I haven't heard Ashburton turned out since I've had the
>radio 
>on, but this doesn't really make a lot of sense,
>considering they were on an old Police frequency of 75.3500 MHz and
>they 
>haven't come up on either of the two Canterbury
>frequencies I stated in the first part of my post.
>
>Cheers,
>ZL3XD.
>(Mike Trump)
>
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