[TheList] NZ Forestry Radio Frequencies

Sat Mar 4 06:00:19 AEDT 2023

On the Tauranga page there is an old list of bush channels?

On Sat, 4 Mar 2023, 12:58 am DogSec - Richard, <richard at dogsecurity.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hey mate,
>
> Forestry channels are kinda all over the place with what forest uses
> what, and what forest requires what.  It's not uncommon for one area to
> be on one channel, and another area to be on a seperate one, within one
> forest.   It should basically all be analog VHF around 150 - 155ish,
> with the odd one using commercial freqs in the EE/EN band.  There's no
> real list,  I often found radio dealers not doing a good enough job when
> programming so when they changed to narrowband this was an ideal time
> for everyone to clean up their acts, but noone really did.  I know
> everything I put out was above board.
>
> The issue mainly being some forest managers require selcall on certain
> channels, others don't - even if it's the same frequency used in
> different areas.  Company A might have say channel 13 (a fairly common
> channel) in their radio, with no selcall enabled which is fine for
> Forest A, but not for Forest B.... Company A does work in Forest B and
> doesn't understand why the forestry managers get upset, to them they
> have the channel and there shouldn't be an issue.  Selcall was one of
> the ways to ensure that everyone has the right channels in the radio,
> just cos you have say, channel 13, you might also be required to have
> several other channels in case of a fire, or entering a loading zone and
> also that you're meant to be in the forest in the first place... A lot
> of 4WDers, for example, had forestry channels programmed into radios
> that were never allowed in the forest in the first place.
>
> The best thing, to confirm, would be to get hold of the forestry manager
> for the forests you're going into, they can advise what channels they
> use, even if you have no intentions to transmitting at least you could
> listen out for calls when you're in the area. Otherwise close call might
> be your friend while you build up a database.   What they call channel
> 57, may be called something entirely different... I've just gone through
> the list of forestry stuff I have done in the past, and I don't see a 57
> mentioned, but it might be called something else.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard.
>
>
> On 3/03/2023 2:17 pm, Chris H - Radiowiki wrote:
> > Driving a bit in forestry roads for my job, and more so after the
> > cyclone - I was wondering if anyone has a list of Radio Frequencies
> > they use..
> >
> > I was in one yesterday (No logging operations so no requirement to
> > carry a radio when we travel) that said use NZR or RNZ Channel 57 for
> > traffic positions.
> >
> > Cant find anything listed anywhere, and the god awful RSM site is
> > almost next to useless at the moment for searching..
> >
> >
> > Also - this list seemed awfully quiet during the cyclone, is it still
> > active??
> >
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