[TheList] Ambulance channels

Sat Mar 26 03:50:12 AEDT 2022

short answer is frequencies are reused throughout the country, tones seperate each region. Each radio has a 'nationwide' codeplug.  
Richard
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On 26 March 2022 2:24:57 am NZDT, Darryl Healy <darryl0768healy at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone
>
>I'm curious about ambulance channels.
>Obviously ambos don't have a huge list of frequencies unlike fire and
>police.
>
>I hear ambos talk about radio channels for areas such as 68 and 76.
>What is the theory behind the naming of the channel numbers? 76 is Dunedin
>and 68 is around Geraldine area. Does each repeater have a so called
>channel number in their radios which have the correct frequency and CTCSS
>tone?
>
>What CTCSS tones do they use? Is it all 218.1 nation wide or is that only
>Canterbury?
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