[TheList] illusive Canterbury 421.3125

Mon Jan 20 11:28:24 AEDT 2020

Buddy of mine went to coms with his brigade one day, he asked and they said
when 2 dispatchers are on duty they’ll talk on only their channels only ie,
FireNelson, FireCHCH and Timaru2 or FireDunedin and FireINV. The reason
you’ll sometimes hear all South Island turnouts is when there is only 1
dispatcher on duty they talk across all 5 channels. They said so that
brigades know they’re not ignoring them they’re just talking to someone
else in a different place.

This would explain why you’d hear Firecom but not the return transmission
from the truck unless they were talking on the same channel or group unless
they patch them together.

On Monday, January 20, 2020, Craig C <cokekid at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Just realised I can't spell. Oops.
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> I was in selwyn over the weekend. And appeared to be getting turnouts when
> 420.0375 was silent. However didn't take much notice of the unit's/area
> being called.
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> Back at home in north Canterbury it's the opposite.
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> On 420 in chc city it's more or less the entire south island calls. If
> they are p2p links, I would expect all traffic across it.
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> As far as I know, and from previous discussion explanations - we'll hear
> most the south island on any channel nowadays? (Though less likely now
> active) And only drop otago south and Marlborough north at times. Thought
> someone previously said some of the shared/overlapped have been dropped
> totally or merged into the more appropriate repeater site for
> range/coverage.
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> From: Brendan Sheehy <shiters_r_us at hotmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 12:12 PM
> To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [TheList] illusive Canterbury 421.3125
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> Can someone confirm if this frequency carries the same traffic as 420.0375
> or if it’s only active when the Mid/South Canty brigades are at incidents.
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> Trying to determine if this is Fire only or part of the old analogue
> shared channels now predominantly used by Fire.
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> Regards
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> Brendan
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> *From: *glenn williams <gmw1963 at hotmail.com>
> *Sent: *Friday, 17 January 2020 9:19 PM
> *To: *thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> *Subject: *Re: [TheList] illusive Canterbury 421.3125
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> Drove Chch to Timaru and back today and nothing heard on VHF between
> Rakaia and Rangitata as usual. 421 wasn’t heard either.
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> *From: *Craig C <cokekid at orcon.net.nz>
> *Sent: *Friday, January 17, 2020 7:18 PM
> *To: *thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> *Subject: *Re: [TheList] illusive Canterbury 421.3125
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> Out at Rolleston again with an ear on.
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> Certainly picking up here on a handheld/ducky while 420.0375 is rather
> deaf.
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> (And on the classic uniden 92xlt, UHF seems more sensitive than VHF so
> glad they're available)
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> So perhaps the latter is more a central/north chc city coverage while 421
> picks up halswall-south
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> Now need to confirm the closer to ashburton coverage claim from the person
> who added.
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