CREST Vic Inc
CREST Vic Inc
I am part of an Emergecny Monitoring organisation, CREST.
CREST Stands for Citizens Radio Emergency Service Teams. We provide a
link between The Citizen Band Radio community and necessary emergency
services by monitoring the Government Allocated emergency channels on
UHF 5 and 35 and on 27mhz ch 9 or ch 5 on 18 ch sets either am or usb.
If anyone in Victoria is interested in joing our organisation can you
please email me at vem...@yahoo.com.au. Alternativly if your are
interstate and are wanting to join CREST in either NSW or QLD please
email me and i will pass on the contact details for those 2 states to
you.
Regards
Ashley
Victoria CREST 77
Rob Adams
wrote:
>If anyone in Victoria is interested in joing our organisation can you
>please email me at vem...@yahoo.com.au. Alternativly if your are
In my 13 years or more on the internet I've never seen an email
address with multiple periods in it, congratulations.
Rob.
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Pagey
"CREST Vic Inc" <ash...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> If anyone in Victoria is interested in joing our organisation can you
> please email me at vem...@yahoo.com.au. Alternativly if your are
> interstate and are wanting to join CREST in either NSW or QLD please
> email me and i will pass on the contact details for those 2 states to
> you.
$25 member fee - $25!! What does that $25 get people? I 'training' manual
and hat? Your site says monitors are 'extensively' trained - what extensive
training do CREST monitors receive?
The 1970's are long gone people - if you need emergency help, call '000'
from a MOBILE phone.
BTW, your not Geelan are you?
ScanAustraliaPix
if you read a bit more of the 'features' of google groups.....
http://groups.google.com.au/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7885&query=email%20hidden&topic=&type=
masked emails to stop spam etc
:)
D
Rob Adams wrote:
Rob Adams
<ScanAust...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Rob Adams wrote:
>> On 23 Oct 2006 02:45:45 -0700, "CREST Vic Inc" wrote:
>>
>> >If anyone in Victoria is interested in joing our organisation can you
>> >please email me at vem...@yahoo.com.au. Alternativly if your are
>>
>> In my 13 years or more on the internet I've never seen an email
>> address with multiple periods in it, congratulations.
>>
>> Rob.
>
>well
>if you read a bit more of the 'features' of google groups.....
>
>http://groups.google.com.au/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7885&query=email%20hidden&topic=&type=
>
>masked emails to stop spam etc
So your email was masked out so that those of us that use a real news
client and not some poor quality (IMHO) web interface.
BuNtEr
still hear people calling out for help and dont get a reply and thats in
sydney on uhf cb.
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Mot Adv-NSW
"BuNtEr" <bun...@cbdomain.com> wrote in message
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> crest hmmm they are dead in nsw as you dont hear anything from them and we
> still hear people calling out for help and dont get a reply and thats in
> sydney on uhf cb.
Active up here in Newcastle/Port Stephens and Hunter on UHF.
As for Sydney, who cares?:-)
NB re the 000 suggestion, great if digital coverage functions, but is often
stuffed. CBRS represents one additional potential help item and will
continue to do so for eons yet.
CREST Vic Inc
Mot Adv-NSW wrote:
hi all,
Sydney do alot of work with cycle races, extreme sports, runs etc.
Newcastle are more into the monitoring side of things. And Us down here
in vic are a mixture of both.
Pagey
Could you tell us a little more about what cycle races, extreme sports, runs
etc CREST have been involved in around Sydney recently?
Also, can you please explain the extensive training CREST operators receive.
BuNtEr
Services May 19-22
i used to have friends that used to be crest monitors and i remember when
crest used to do some really great work, but now they are almost not around.
if you look into it wicen do more the cycle races and big avents you never
ever see crest unless its an expo.
You don't see crest at any big or small ham/radio advents like Wyong or any
others, you do see wicen and ACREM.
it seems crests agender isn't the same as it used to be
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Tsunami Australia
"Mot Adv-NSW" <mot...@internode.on.net> wrote in message
news:mot...@internode.on.net:
I will agree with the GSM coverage. CDMA is not a huge amount better,
even though it has better coverage. I'm aware of Hunter CREST and ACREM
being active still, I hear the Newcastle ch5 repeater (and CREST 3 on
simplex 35) some nights where I am, some 200km north of Newcastle. Last
I listened to channel 8 Walcha, New England Radio were still active on
it.
Mot Adv-NSW
"BuNtEr"
> You don't see crest at any big or small ham/radio advents like Wyong or
> any others, you do see wicen and ACREM.
>
> it seems crests agender isn't the same as it used to be
participate/volunteer. Each organisation then faces serious challenges,
really all one can do is as much as they can given locally, hows that for a
generic answer:-)
"It" goes beyond just this topic, people are just to busy or otherwise tied
up for most anything, few have, or can give time to even chat, thats just
the way it is.
Pagey questioning might in such circumstances, be a little precious, when by
in large most folk would just need a relay to police, fire, ambulance, SES
et al.
Fire Brigades and rural fure services for example are nearly always short
staffed, not always because of cutbacks, but a lack of people.
Tsunami - a big land this agreed, I'd not be without at least a UHF when on
the road, once of the reasons why I have text suggesting folk use the CBRS
road and emergency channels in our driver manuals (WA and SA, more to come).
J.
Marty
> the only time i have seen crest was at Rescue Expo 2006 - "Emergency
> Services May 19-22
>
> i used to have friends that used to be crest monitors and i remember when
> crest used to do some really great work, but now they are almost not
> around.
>
> if you look into it wicen do more the cycle races and big avents you never
> ever see crest unless its an expo.
>
> You don't see crest at any big or small ham/radio advents like Wyong or
> any others, you do see wicen and ACREM.
>
> it seems crests agender isn't the same as it used to be
CREST in NSW has changed a lot in the past years, moving away from CB duties
because of their VRA affiliation. Even one of their long time members in the
Hunter area admitted they don't monitor much any more as they get more work
doing traffic control and similar. Sorry, but I always figured that CB
monitoring groups did that - monitor CB - if I wanted to do traffic control
or man road blocks then I'd join SES!!!
CREST also seems to have moved away from having much of an interest in the
future of CB. In a past joint submission that a number of CB groups
participated in, CREST in NSW and Queensland refused to even reply, and only
CREST Victoria supported the submission. This doesn't make some of the
serious CBers very considerate towards their cause.....
WICEN are certainly more heavily involved in communications support than any
CB group, probably because of the greater range of communications options
and better trained/experienced radio operators. I know WICEN in NSW have
been involved in a number of communications support exercises recently, some
of them sounding rather interesting!
CB emergency channels do still play an important role in Australia, with
ACREM Monitors in Queensland taking a number of calls and also helping ACMA
to locate and clear those misusing the 5/35 repeater. Some of the calls
taken involved safety of life and/or property. In NSW similar calls are
often taken, even in regions where CREST is also active ACREM Monitors take
calls, although all attempts by them to work in with the CREST Monitors are
generally ignored......
ACREM is also very heavily involved in promoting the proper use of CB and
the CB emergency channels, and have been in contact with numerous businesses
and representative organisations about promoting CB emergency channels in
general, rather than any one particular group. This is made harder as
unlike CREST in NSW, ACREM receives no form of financial sponsorship or
funding from any quasi-government source, so all funding needed must be
raised by members, although again in NSW ACREM is the only group recognised
by the ATO on a whole group, state wide, basis as a Public Benevolent
Institution and a Deductible Gift Recipient.
Anyone that is interested in monitoring CB emergency channels, or simply
supporting those that do, try contacting one of the relevant groups:
ACREM (NSW, Qld and Vic) - http://www.acrem.org.au
> ACREM (NSW) http://www.nsw.acrem.org.au
> ACREM (Qld) http://www.qld.acrem.org.au
> ACREM (Vic) http://www.vic.acrem.org.au
ACRM (SA) - http://www.acrm.org.au
ACRM (WA) - http://acrm.mysouthwest.com.au
CREST (Vic) - http://home.vicnet.net.au/~crest
CREST (Qld) - ??????????????????????????
CREST (NSW) - http://www.crest.org.au
TASVEC (Tasmania) - http://tasvec.taswireless.net
Did I miss anyone?????