[TheList] mid south island pocsag

Tue Nov 17 18:19:48 AEDT 2020

I'm unsure what you're talking about... Fires IGC radios were upgraded for fireground channels on UHF (this means they don't use the VHF Fire 1 - 4 channels very often, and also allows multiple Incidents to occur on different zoned channels.) It has nothing to do with the radios that they talk to the comms centre on. They're still transmitting in digital mode. They are in the right band for whenever fire change over to the digital NGCC network.

Ambo and fires pages are on the Spark paging frequency, where they've always been, and I'd suggest this is a more reliable source than from individual stations transmitters as I'm sure that would only be fairly low power. The pages haven't gone digital, nor have they moved or shifted from the Spark frequency.  I'd recommend you look at the Spark frequency and set up filters in PDW for what you're wanting to look at, if you're having issues. 

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On 17 November 2020 7:37:11 pm NZDT, amallett28 <amallett28 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Ever since fire got their radios upgraded maybe to more of a diverse
>rf/mobile type radio or may even be digital.
>
>I have the old paging bin with radio from Mount horrible where the old
>pager unit was. Now that that particular radio has been replaced with a
>satellite/fibre link.
>
>From my understanding is that most of the older tech is getting
>switched
>out for more Internet driven ones with remote keying of mics and
>messages.
>
>Ever since the bin was removed the signal on the Ambo band has gone.
>Yes
>sure the national paging is still going with a mix of just about
>everything.
>
>However all I was requiring is the Ambo pages throughout nz but again
>it's
>either gone or shifted to a more digital realm.
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