Emergency channel A

hanksta · Post by **hanksta** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:28 am

Just listening to a major gas leak in Kwinnana and they changed to emergency channel A they have new radio's installed and i cant find itdoes anybody have info on it

cheers Hank

doogues71 · Post by **doogues71** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:39 am

the only emergency channel on the police that I know of is ch 23(Freo area) or ch26(Perth area)Never heard of channel A.

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:48 pm

doogues71 wrote:the only emergency channel on the police that I know of is ch 23(Freo area) or ch26(Perth area)Never heard of channel A.

It could be the new statewide emergency UHF simplex channel that's common to the three main emergency services. I think it's at around 458Mhz. The exact freq is on the FESA site somewhere

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:20 pm

Maybe 519.625/519.900 ? These are the FESA UHF fireground channels.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:46 pm

its not that new. its been in the standard FESA UHF programming for a while (SES, FRS fireground etc) - Displays on the TAIT radios as ESA and ESB.

From Gavs post in January:

Frequency A: 458.025Mhz
Frequency B: 458.075Mhz

hanksta · Post by **hanksta** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:59 pm

Yea it was the police not FRS using it

Post by **vk6hgr** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:52 pm

hanksta wrote:Yea it was the police not FRS using it

All emergency services (Police, Ambos, FESA) have those two channels on their radios.

Fastlane · Post by **Fastlane** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:51 pm

vk6hgr wrote:
hanksta wrote:Yea it was the police not FRS using it
All emergency services (Police, Ambos, FESA) have those two channels on their radios.

To be more correct, only Fire & Rescue Service and SES as far as FESA is concerned. And even then, I'm not sure what the deal is with FRS UHF radios in vollie brigades ?

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:32 pm

The only UHF radios we have out here are UHF CBs.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:11 pm

These channels can be used by the FRS and SES. They are simplex channels.

Ch A 458.025 Ch B 458.075

Regards Mike.

WPXZBP · Post by **WPXZBP** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:59 pm

Do either require CTCSS access?

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:07 pm

They do not require CTCSS to access

Mike

Post by **vk6hgr** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:20 pm

I think WA Ambulance also use 458.050MHz as a simplex channel

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