WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services (6AR and 6IP) (Including the Fire Services, SES & VMRS) and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
The DFES stream is now in "summer" mode - 6AR command channel is no longer included on the left hand audio track channels.
The 6AR command channel stream's radio has been replaced. A 27 year old radio after ~6 years of being on 24/7, the audio was starting to get a bit rubbish due to capacitors drying out.
Thanks to a recent donation, the DFES stream how has a UHF Simoco SRM9000 radio on the left hand side audio. As it has better receive performance, as well as the 10 SES UHF repeaters, it now scans simplex channels ES A, ES B, FRS 1 and FRS 2.
Folks have reported that the audio on Channel 644 (Air attack, etc) has a squeal on the audio. It's not a problem here, there's something wrong with the repeater.
The UHF side of the DFES stream is getting an upgrade soon.
The project is to have two UHF radios on two different antennas and set them up so if the signal fades on one radio, the audio will switch to the second radio if it's receiving instead.
I noticed the Southwest Area feed is getting some Northam Police occasionally which is pretty sweet!
Bit sad 6AR isn't on the Southwest feed anymore, my android app won't do two channels at once. Though I understand why it isn't there for 'summer mode'
kinetic_skink wrote:
Bit sad 6AR isn't on the Southwest feed anymore, my android app won't do two channels at once. Though I understand why it isn't there for 'summer mode'
Yeah, it can be frustrating, but having 6AR on the southwest feed in summer is too noisy. What I do is if I want to listen to two streams at the same time I use two different apps
The theory though is that you listen in on the 6AR feed and then if an 'interesting' event starts, switch to the SW DFES feed for the fireground channels.
The DFES UHF (Right) channel now also has Northam (noisy) and south-east (Lima) area police from ch11.