SA Firefighter

Just thought i would be the 1500th post in this thread.
Yeah, go me...

p.s. is Ammusing supposed to be spelt wrong to add to the flavour of the topic?????

1918209 08:59:20 03-03-07 MFS: RESPOND RESCUE GENERAL 03/03/07 08:58,COOBER PEDY SES,COOBER PEDY, MAP 0 A 0 ,,MINE RESCUE PRACTISE. 9.30 A.M. TODAY. MEET AT SHED.,DAILY INC. NO. 22,75529*CFSRES:

Thats one way of getting peoples attention for training!!!

Quote from: Mundcfs on March 03, 2007, 08:50:01 AM
1918209 08:59:20 03-03-07 MFS: RESPOND RESCUE GENERAL 03/03/07 08:58,COOBER PEDY SES,COOBER PEDY, MAP 0 A 0 ,,MINE RESCUE PRACTISE. 9.30 A.M. TODAY. MEET AT SHED.,DAILY INC. NO. 22,75529*CFSRES:

Thats one way of getting peoples attention for training!!!

Not with the above pager message, but....

Quite a few SES Units are starting training exercises from home. The members know that an exercise is to start in the morning, but not sure when. Gives the crew practise in opening the LHQ, staggered responding of vehicles (not all at the same time because of different members travel time to LHQ), senior people organising before officers arrive, etc, etc. A bit more reality in the exercise.

1925510 17:06:03 06-03-07 I DONT LIKE LYING FOR YOU - MICHAEL

UH Oh :evil:

G81 Cat3 Lot 186 Pimpala Rd, Cockatoo Valley
G81 THE HOUSE IS NEXT TO A NUDIST COLONY CALLED DELANIAM



Cool now I know where it is lol. Wouldnt want to make a bum turn...

1927320 19:16:38 07-03-07 SHQ: ARE YOU ALIVE???? < 07/03/2007 19:16:28

Yes what do ya want :mrgreen:

9/03/2007 6:03:04 PM Cleve EE group, ETSA require 2 units to wash down power line from Verran then West and toward Wharminda, 2-3 per unit needed, will page when called ,morning job. Cleve , AB, Wharm Rudall.


to WASH the powerlines....?       :-o

Yep....

ETSA routinely clean the insulators - move dust & grim and whatever else settles on them....

Often they use a small helicopter, with someone hanging out the side, squirting the insulators.....

Pip

seems strange...

but anyway, using CFS to do so? and on a total fire ban day? weirdys

1925044 00:07:20 10-03-07 SHQ: WEBSITE AND HOTLINE HAVE BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT FIRE BANS..... GOODNIGHT SLEEP TIGHT HOPE THE BEDBUGS BITE.....   :-D

Might be a fire ban day, but wont take them long to drop everything and run if they get a job.

Quote from: mack on March 09, 2007, 06:55:45 PM
9/03/2007 6:03:04 PM Cleve EE group, ETSA require 2 units to wash down power line from Verran then West and toward Wharminda, 2-3 per unit needed, will page when called ,morning job. Cleve , AB, Wharm Rudall.


to WASH the powerlines....?       :-o

Could be a shocking experience for them :-P

Quote from: ath on March 10, 2007, 07:44:49 AM
Might be a fire ban day, but wont take them long to drop everything and run if they get a job.

If anything probaly be a quicker response as the truck is already crewed

1916706 20:45:09 10-03-07 Oh dear, i smell

:-D :?

1916060 18:07:43 12-03-07 PL84 WHERE ARE U - SILLY PAGER    :lol:

1909007 12:48:18 13-03-07 I AM LOST

1909007 12:49:37 13-03-07 NOW I AM FOUND

thanks for the update, we were just getting worried!!

Hi All,

I am just writing to advise you that the pager site will be out of action until Friday the 23rd of March 2007. This is due to ongoing maintenance of this service.

I would appreciate any donations in order to ease the running costs that are increasing every month. You can donate by using the paypal tab on the front of the scansa.hopto.org website.

There are currently over 500 people daily using this site, some days peaking to 1000 users!

This is putting a huge amount of load on the system, thus the need for upgrades.

Thanks

Scansa.hopto.org

how much outgoing data per day/month are we talking about?
(I assume that's the main cost?)

Hi,

About 500mb in uploads, around downloads are around 150mb a day.

Sam

so that's about 15Gb per month outgoing data.  Are internode not happy with that amount of usage?  (their T&C's just says for non-commercial use but doesn't mention any data transfer figures)

Have you considered something like http://dreamhost.com ?  for about AU$10 per month you get 160Gb storage and and 1.5Tb of data transfer per month.  Or http://regtld.com is even cheaper, about AU$6 per month for 5Gb space and 250Gb transfer.

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So whens the site back online???

I'm starting to get the shakes :lol: :-P

you can run your own pdw setup quite easily rather then rely on others.


all you need is a cheap scanner, audio cable and the pdw software.

And when you mention a cheap scanner, suitable ones are the old ones that are no longer any good for listening to trunked networks....there are likely to be lots of people with old scanners tucked away in the shed, seemingly no good anymore...

And the PDW software is free......

And again, you only need Windows 95 on your old computer to make it all work.   :-D

tell us more pip im geting an idea     :evil:

Not sure what other info you need, but I'll try...

The old scanners we are talking about are the old ones that everyone used to have to listen to CFS, pre-GRN days... but didn't work too well when GRN came in, and hence people tucked them away somewhere, and no longer use them.....

The PDW file is downloadable from the web for free....I'll see if I can find the address...

The PDW is a simple program, which doesn't take up huge amounts of space on your PC...and a Windows 95 machine will do the job....

More info about the scanning is available on SA Scan website 

http://users.sa.chariot.net.au/~mattb/scan/scanner.htm


Pip