Re: Metronet radios

["Glen O'Riley" <glen.orileyDES@PAMlinx.iwarp.com>]

Which radios are they using? The usual Motorola shit?


"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Glen O'Riley" <glen.orileyDES@PAMlinx.iwarp.com> wrote in message
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> | They may have an open channel where all trains within a certain boundary
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> | on the same channel and can talk just like a normal CB until they hit
the
> | next boundary which switches channels and then continues to be open.
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> Not with the current radio.
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> | "Jack" <dave60@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
> | 3a9203b2.24534884@news.dingoblue.net.au">news:3a9203b2.24534884@news.dingoblue.net.au...
> | > As a direct result of the Glenbrook Inquiry, Metronet radios are to be
> | > fitted to the Countrylink fleet. XPTs and Explorers.. There was a
> | > trial late last year of hand portable metronet radios but they have
> | > proven to be dangerous in the extreme and wont be used by Countrylink.
> | > The plan is to fit what is currently in Suburbans and interurbans,
> | > with the possibility that the radios will be  GPS dependant. The
> | > choice of these radios is strange because one of the recs from
> | > Glenbrook was train to train coms. This system in normal working doest
> | > provide that unless you happen to know the run number of the train you
> | > wish to speak to. But that is the system they are going to implement
> | > on Countrylink services..
> | >
> | > Cheers
> | > Jack
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