Clipsal 500 using Motorola MotoTRBO network
(Added 26/2/13)

The Clipsal 500 V8 supercar race is this year using the Motorola MotoTRBO network on the CBD transmitter located in King William street.

For more information have a look at the Clipsal 500 Frequencies Webpage

If you have any updates to the information provided on our website, please send an email to the SA-SCAN Yahoogroup

2012 Royal Adelaide Show Frequencies
(Added 11/9/12)

The St John Ambulance Service volunteers are this year using a newly installed repeater located on top of the Jubilee Pavillion, the output frequency is 470.975mhz and it can be heard clearly throughout much of the metropolitan area.

SES volunteers on patrol at the event are using the SES GRN talkgroup 11 (13520). Multi Agency talkgroup 032 (816) is used for coordination between SAPOL, SES, St John and Security staff.

Other frequencies that may be in use include:

UBCD396XT Programming Instructions
(Added 28/1/12)

The Uniden UBCD396XT portable trunking scanner can be a tricky radio to program for the SAGRN.

Fortunately Jim - a regular contributor to the South Australian Scanner community has put together a comprehensive programming guide for this scanner.

Have a look at Jim's blog at http://ozscan.blogspot.com/ for some very useful information related to this radio.

Uniden release new digital trunking scanner
(Added 1/12/11)

Uniden Australia have released the UBCD396XT digital trunking scanner. This is currently the only digital trunking scanner available to Australian customers.

This scanner will work correctly on the SA-GRN analog and digital trunking systems. This means that when the upgrade of the SA-GRN is complete this radio will still function correctly.

The recommended retail price is set at $499, however many distributors have already stated they will be discounting the unit initially to around $449.

S.A. Ambulance Service first agency to use S.A.C.A.D
(Added 23/9/11)

The S.A. Ambulance Service (SAAS) transitioned all dispatch functions to the South Australian Call Reciept & Dispatch (SACAD) system on Tuesday the 20th of September.

SAAS are the first agency to utilise the SACAD system, and will be soon be followed by the South Australian Fire & Emergency Commision (SAFECOM) agencies (MFS, CFS, SES) who will change over on the 25th of October, and the South Australian Police Departement (SAPOL) who are scheduled to begin using SACAD on the 11th of November.

Once fully operational the SACAD system will provide the closest, fastest and most appropriate response for all emergency services to any part of the state. It also provides greatly improved mapping and location data, with the ability to pinpoint resources that are closest to an incident. Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) as used by SAAS has been integrated in the SACAD system and provides a graphical representation to the dispatcher of the location of all vehicles. A proposed Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) rollout will also interface with SACAD and will allow dispatch information, as well as patient history data to be retrieved by crews on the road immediately.

The SACAD system will also, for the first time, ensure that agencies can seemlessly and easily pass information electronically between the dispatchers at all agencies. This will result in decreased response times for multi agency events, where the incident can immediately be sent to all relevant agencies.

As part of the rollout of the SACAD system, SAAS have made a number of changes to the way pager messages are sent and the talkgoups that are utilised in the metropolitan area. The updated information can now be found on the Ambulance information page.

Increase to capacity of many GRN sites
(Added 5/9/11)

As part of the upgrade of the SAGRN, twenty one GRN sites will have their voice capacity upgraded with the addition of more than sixty new voice channels. This upgrade will reduce the level of congestion on many of the busier sites and will provide much needed capacity for large scale incidents and operations.

As a result of the new frequencies now being used, people using some of the older scanners like the UBC780 or UBC T8 that rely on all of the voice channels being in the same bank as the data channel will now find that they are missing transmissions. You will need to add the new channels into your scanner to ensure you continue to hear everything.

Those using dynamic frequency allocation scanners like the UBC396T and UBC996T will not need to do anything.

A list of upgrades sites is now available on 'SA Government Radio Network - Sites and Frequencies' page.

Successful trial of $1.5m VHF marine safety network
(Added 26/5/11)

A new $1.5 million marine safety communications network is closer to going live with Volunteer Marine Rescue currently trialling the service.

The 24/7 VHF network, built by the State Government, will be the most robust and extensive marine safety system ever operated in South Australia.

Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure (DTEI) Director Transport Safety Regulation, Brian Hemming said the successful trial is proving how effective the new technology is.

“Since December, the volunteers have been trialling the new network and the new operator consoles and helping us finalise procedures for the state-wide rollout,” he said.

“When we go live boaties will be covered in coastal waters, out to about 30 nautical miles, from west of Fowlers Bay to across the Victorian border.”

“The 14 new remote base stations across the state will also provide coverage of all Gulf Waters and water surrounding Kangaroo Island.”

The new network will build on the work of volunteers who tirelessly monitor the airwaves for boats in distress.

To ensure 24-hour coverage, a contractor will monitor the network from the hours of 7.00 pm to 7.00 am. Volunteers will continue their dedicated monitoring throughout the day.
 
All boats – both recreational and commercial vessels – are encouraged to use the network.

Boaties should continue to use channel 16 as the primary channel for distress calls.

Users are reminded to keep 16 clear by calling and switching to a working channel.

The Australian Maritime College produces a Marine VHF Radio operator’s handbook. To view visit www.amc.edu.au/handbook.

Please refer to the marine radio page on www.sa.gov.au/boatingmarine for details on coverage in South Australia.