Tuesday, September 8, 2020

NSW GRN - NSW WIDE FREQUENCIES (COWs)

Hello and Welcome Back... There's COWs in that field

During the 2019 Bushfires in NSW, Several GRN towers lost communication as fire damaged the wiring and control boxes... The solution was COWs

No silly, not the Mooo Type

COWs or "Cell On Wheels" (see pic below) are a portable GRN solution, able to be ushered anywhere around NSW in a Jiffy..




Currently, as i write this, my local tower 'Glenbrook' has been switched off  for upgrades and a COW is put in its place.
The problem was, i had entered all the frequencies for that tower into my scanner aaaand.. Nothing

The problem was, the replacement was a COW and not much was known about the frequencies that belonged to COWs.

Two things stood out...

1. The COW was currently being used (Glenbrook)
2. It is portable, so a search should hopefully show an Ambulatory (Portable) system or NSW Wide.

Turns out i was right with the second thought, the 'NSW Wide' stands out like the proverbial, with all the other 45 or so pages of Government frequencies assigned to various long sounding sites.

Just to be sure on my theory, i ran the frequency that is active at Glenbrook into the search, sure enough, it came back as a 'NSW Wide' frequency...

And that is todays lesson on COWs

I set up my findings under 'COWs - Portable Sites' in my scanner and entered all the frequencies below and got several hits...

Happy with my findings, which i will now share with you.


FREQUENCIES

414.4750 - Station 1
414.4875 - Station 2
414.5000 - Station 3
414.5125 - Station 4
414.5250 - Station 5
414.5375 - Station 6
414.5500 - Station 7
414.5625 - Station 8
414.5750 - Station 9
414.5875 - Station 10
414.6000 - Station 11
414.6125 - Station 12
414.6625 - Station 13
414.8625 - Station 14
415.3875 - Station 15
415.4000 - Station 16
415.4125 - Station 17
415.4250 - Station 18
414.95625 - Notional Station - HGSA Band 2
420.40000 - Notional Station - HGSA Band 5
423.90000 - Notional Station - HGS Band 5
423.1125 - Station 1
423.2375 - Station 2
423.3625 - Station 3
423.4875 - Station 4
423.6125 - Station 5
423.7375 - Station 6
423.8625 - Station 7
423.9875 - Station 8




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#CellonWheels
#Cell
#GRN
#Frequencies



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