<div dir="ltr"><div>I had the impression Fire purchased the entire network as a going concern and contracted Spark to run it.</div><div><br></div><div>I hadn't heard that they'd rescinded any of the channels involved.</div><div><br></div><div>My very limited exposure to Paging suggests that not a lot has changed over the last few years, except perhaps a reduction in the number of non-emergency-services using paging (as the base costs exploded when Fire took the network over... this was the catalyst that would've pushed many people to switch less time-critical stuff to SMS or Push Alerts.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 6:16 AM Neill Ellis <<a href="mailto:tgsnoopy@gmail.com">tgsnoopy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Since when? Not even that high in EIRP considering antenna gain. The <br>
original transmitters were NEC 100 Watt output. Later were 250W through <br>
big isolators sharing antenna, as they were 25 kHz off each other they <br>
lost around 3dB of power in the process (Aka output to aerial in the <br>
100-125W region) Pretty sure the colinear aerials they used didn't have <br>
10+ dBi gain. Just cause the licence says it's EIRP, doesn't mean it is it.<br>
<br>
<br>
Would be very interested if things have changed dramatically since I had <br>
my hands on that network.<br>
<br>
<br>
Pretty sure Spark shut it down & only 1 is running now, but owned by <br>
Fire & Emergency.<br>
<br>
<br>
Neill ZL1TAJ<br>
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On 14/01/2019 10:50 PM, Radio Scanner wrote:<br>
> Most of the Telecom paging network run 1KW transmitters, id be <br>
> surprised if you can't receive any of those...<br>
><br>
> 157.900<br>
> 157.925<br>
> 157.950<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 14/01/2019 6:39 p.m., richard Pringle wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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>> Can anyone confirm any pager frequencys still in use in Canterbury?<br>
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