[TheList] NZ Forestry Radio Frequencies

Sat Mar 4 17:58:51 AEDT 2023

 Hey ya.. 

Ummm looking for Forest Heights in Kapati - and Martiriki forests in the Coromandel 

They would currently be the main two we travel up at the moment. 
But also am curious as to others as I do drive around the country LOTS for work, so yeah, would be interesting to listen to too. 

I saw this from 2016:  https://www.tll.co.nz/vdb/document/110

Which is when they narrowbanded - so yeah, might run the scanner next time and Unfortunately don’t have the Close Call feature, its only an Icom IC-R30 so might just scan the band and just log things into memory and see what I can get while I am working and it can just sit there logging 

> On 4/03/2023, at 09:33, DogSec - Richard <richard at dogsecurity.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> I'm not from there, so I don't know if it's pre or post narrowbanding.  Also, that's not a nationwide list which is what I took Chris was looking for, and he's from Northland if I recall correct.  As I mentioned, every forest is different, and it's entirely possible that the channel he's looking for may or may not be reffered to as something else.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> On 4/03/2023 8:00 am, Rob Vile wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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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