NZ Fire Service Radio, Scanning Auckland Channel

December 11th, 2009 | by admin |

Numerous calls and reponses during a relatively busy night for fire crews in Auckland City.
Includes call and Response tones.

Recorded from Aucklands relatively new UHF network.

MOST of the Fire service codes
known as K-codes used to communicate with dispatch(Known as firecom)

The NZ Fire Service uses K codes to reduce the time on air. They range from K0 to K99 (see listing below).
MSUs (mobile status units) in the operational vehicles are used to transmit the Status K codes – K0 thru K9 and Arrival Codes – K55 thru K99. The appropriate buttons are pushed for radio tones to be sent to convey the new status of the vehicle, which are automatically logged by the dispatch computer.
Verbal messages are necessary to pass the other K Codes. It is necessary to first press a “Routine” or “Priority” call button to alert the dispatcher that they are wanted, as sometimes they are not monitering the channel constantly eg. busy dispatching or dealing with another appliance or phone call.
Note:The tones heard are selcal 5+1 tones.

K0 – not available
K1 -Responding to incident (normaly heard as tones or bleeps over the radio)
K2 -in attendence at incident (normaly heard as tones or bleeps over the radio)
K3 on Radio outside normal turnout area
K4 on Radio inside normal turnout area
K5 on Radio available at incident
K6 available on pager
K7 at normal (home) station
K8 at residence (available on phone)
K9 off Radio – state location
KE unable to proceed (state reason) (spoken as Kay Echo)

K11 (state support service and if necessary the reason)
K12 Fire suspicious – possible arson (new code)

K22 Is your appliance available for a further call?
K22-2 Have you any appliances that can be released?

K25 proceed to, and standby at (state location)
K25-1 appliance standing by and awaiting instructions at (state location)
K26 appliance still engaged at incident for (state time)
K26-1 appliance still engaged, no additional developments
K28 appliance is to return to station
K28-1 return further or specific responding appliances

K32 radio test – how do you receive
K33 radio test received satisfactorily
K34 repeat your last message
K35 verify address of call
K35-1 request map reference
K36 contact Comms Centre by phone
K38 asscioate this call sign to incident (state incident address)
K39 retransmit your current status (MSU or verbal)

K41 fatality (indicate number with suffix)
K42 Vehicle extrication/Rescue complete (Code No Longer In Used but can be herd sometimes)
K46-1 stop message-false alarm good intent
K46-2 stop message-false alarm accidental
K46-3 stop message-defective apparatus
K46-4 stop message-malicious
K46-5 stop message-alarm agent in attendance
K46-6 stop message-nothing showing on indicator panel
K47 stop message-message unchanged from informative

K55 first appliance in attendance-special service call (non-fire e.g. Rescue, car accident, HAZMAT, flooding or medical co-response)
K66 first appliance in attendance-non property fire
K77 first appliance in attendance-nothing showing investigating further
K88 first appliance in attendance-property fire apparently small
K99 first appliance in attendance-property fire well involved

more info on codes, truck and station numbers:
http://www.radiowiki.org.nz/index.php/Scanning_Fire

For pictures of all trucks and support vehicles dispatched or mentioned in this video, click here:
http://www.111emergency.co.nz/AUCKLAND.htm

Auckland Fire Police Units website:
http://www.aucklandfirepolice.org.nz

Frequencies:
http://www.radiowiki.org.nz/index.php/Scanning_in_Auckland

Note: I did about a 30min recording and then took out the intervals between transmissions to make it a bit more interesting and able to fit onto youtubes stupid 10min rule.

Duration : 0:9:59


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  1. 25 Responses to “NZ Fire Service Radio, Scanning Auckland Channel”

  2. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    But yea it will be …
    But yea it will be sad not being able to listen to the cops. you get to know the shifts and the officers and also hear the real side of policing and the funny moments. Sadly police mangament dont see it that way and thinks everyone with a scanner is an easedroper that could hamper there work. Its a shame the minority crims kill it for the scanning community.

  3. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Yip. Wellington is …
    Yip. Wellington is done. Then 2010 Auckland and Christchurch will be done by november then who knows who else will be next to join. I think they do the North-west channel first in auckland then metro and southern. all with in about a month or 2. And wellington free ambulance is reported to be trialing the polices system. And fire are going to begin planning next year for there digital p-25 network like the cops(hopefuly unencrypted).

  4. By Jackcc5 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    so the cities come …
    so the cities come first then everywhere else? so the whole of nz is going to be digital sucky man im going to miss listing to the police you get to know them after a while.

  5. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Has your scanner …
    Has your scanner gone quiet? I wish the police went to a unencrypted p-25 system. I wouldnt mind scanning something a bit different.

  6. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Yea deffinatly. …
    Yea deffinatly. Lucky I don’t live in Auckland, Christchurch or Wellington. And suposivly because of the high cost of the digital system -reported to be 150mil per area- No more funding can be garrenteed to the new “secure” systems roll out accross the country. But sadly for Auckland and ChCh funding already alocated and the roll out will happen in the next 12 months. Sounds like the last summer with the anologue for the cities

  7. By Jackcc5 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    can you still pick …
    can you still pick up the police with your radio scanner? i think they will soon go silent when the encryption comes in

  8. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Like I told …
    Like I told Dowall54321 im not sure what the police use there tones for. All i can gues is for calling comms as some police radio units in there cars that ive seen have priority and routine call buttons like fire so maybe they can use them when the channel busy and they cant verbaly call comms. but i dont know for sure. And I dont mine the tones, they sort of make nz emergency services radio unique. Suposivly with the right gear you can decode them like you can with paging messages.

  9. By Jackcc5 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    man that’s annoying …
    man that’s annoying the call tones thing. they also got them on the police channel why is that

  10. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Hopefuly that …
    Hopefuly that answers some of your question. :-)

  11. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    There what they …
    There what they call Selcall tones. They basicly transmit data to the dispatchers computer via buttons on the radio. Im not 100% certain what the police use them for but yea i’ve heard them also. I do no that Fire , Ambulance and Rail use them to call there communication centres and the likes of fire use them to transmit the trucks status eg a tone may tell the dispatcher there K1 (responding) & then another tone for K2 (on scene) so it prevents having to do it verbaly and reduces radio traffic

  12. By DOWALL54321 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    I here those tones …
    I here those tones on the police channel, what do they mean exactly?

  13. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    hell yea!
    yea!

  14. By TheFireRescue1 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Yeah it must suck …
    Yeah it must suck being a station that only gets a few jobs a year and then get a resonably interesting job andk 28.1d before you get there.

  15. By MARTON8371 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    station 83 western …
    station 83 western fire region. marton volunteer rural fire force

  16. By sexcboi27 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    like wise. what …
    like wise. what station are you from ?

  17. By MARTON8371 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    i hate being k28-ed
    i hate being k28-ed

  18. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    theres accually an …
    theres accually an extra bit to that call, that I was unable to post because of you tubes bloody 10min rule. they got called there two more time and on the last time they prority messaged for police to attend before they even left the station. then later in a sitrep later they said it was some domestic incident. lol

  19. By ExtremeFireRisk on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    That Papatoetoe one …
    That Papatoetoe one was just down the road from my house in Auckland!

  20. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    well thats a …
    well thats a bonus.Its just seems being k-28′d is a big part of the job for most perm stations with a volly truck. Maybe apart from the likes of taupo. Don’t no why they respond vollys to a pfa(unless its k88, k99or multiple calls) in large citys that already has like 3 other paid trucks going and you just no the perms are gona get there first then, it’s gona go k77 then the annoying k28-1. lol

  21. By sexcboi27 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    yeah they do. but …
    yeah they do. but we have the light tender, so we get called to the MVA’s aswell so thats pretty good. we get k28′d

  22. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    yea that must suck. …
    yea that must suck. perms get all the jobs. and you guys get k28-1ed or you have to k25.

  23. By sexcboi27 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    i know. we always …
    i know. we always get boring calls like that. and nine times out of ten the perms get there b4 us coz they on station and 322 gets a k28-1 .

  24. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    yeah haha. And only …
    yeah haha. And only to a boaring alarm system activation, that was nothing.

  25. By underated27 on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    took 7 minutes to …
    took 7 minutes to hear one call to howick station :( . everybody else had at least two callouts. pitty

  26. By A1nzfan on Dec 11, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks for the info …
    Thanks for the info! I wasn’t 100% sure of what they were (the tones)
    but I never thought of them being CTCSS tones.
    Thanks heaps

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