07CHAR - Charlton Tower

[mapleradio]

Is anyone else having a perfect signal, but nothing coming through?

 

[ATCTech]

The control channel has moved to 141.630 at some point but you are correct, there's no voice call activity. The other CC (142.800) continues to broadcast the LMRN P25 tone signal.

 

[mapleradio]

Changed the control channel and yes, absolutely dead.

 

[Enjoi19]

Whitby is also now transmitting on 142.05 suddenly as it's control channel. I do hear activity.

And as I sent this, they swapped back to the regular control channel of 143.145. Just doing a quick search I didn't pick up any test tones on my 436 across the 138-150mhz range.

 

[ATCTech]

142.350 (CHARL) appears to be back on the air too. I'm not running anything that can do old Motorola decoding at this second but it is a regular Fleetnet sound. 141.360 is now silent.

For giggles I did look at 142.665 which has been identifying as site 9 on LMRN for the past few weeks. No changes there, no neighbor sites listed yet.

 

[mrweather]

Was hearing a lot of paramedic traffic on PCOM this morning so maybe something was amiss on the regular system.

 

[VA3SOM]

Something maybe not working with it. All day I've been hearing EMS on PCOM. I heard it a bit back on FleetNet earlier, but all on PCOM again.

 

[mapleradio]

CC appears to be back to 141.630 today. Still, no traffic at all. Yesterday I did get a few hits for 10OPS39 and MTO Morriston, so it wasn't completely dead on 141.630 but today no Bueno.

 

[mrweather]

Still lots of EMS dispatch traffic on PCOM this morning.

 

[VA3SOM]

Yep they are still on PCOM here too.

 

[mapleradio]

I am hearing the odd peep from 10OPS42 and 10OPS39 as well as Hospital Patches.
There must be something horribly wrong.

 

[exkalibur]

It's curious that a lot of this coincided with the bad wind storm the other day. Whitby was in and out of site trunking most of the day; I wouldn't be surprised if the microwave links went haywire a little bit.

 

[mapleradio]

It's curious that a lot of this coincided with the bad wind storm the other day. Whitby was in and out of site trunking most of the day; I wouldn't be surprised if the microwave links went haywire a little bit.

Maybe, but I assumed they would be over some kind of wireline service in this day and age. Seems to be healthy now. Listening to lots of calls today. Pretty active, CC on 142.350.

 

[gary123]

Microwave links are cheaper. The operator remains in control of the link and its contents. This is one huge reason they are preferred.