Roads Corporation of Victoria
Callsign: VZ3MT
All of the
country regions are on the VicGov SMR network (what's let of them anyway) and only
a few of the vehicles (mainly the road gangs) have radios in them. The most common radio in use back then (and
still is now) is the Phillips FM 900 series radio in both local and remote
versions. The country repeaters also had a TARA interface system in use as
well.
|
Callsign # |
Depot(s) Based At/User Groups |
|
1900-1906 |
Westgate Freeway Depot Road Gang-IMT Patrols based
at this depot |
|
1850-1865 |
Eastern Freeway Depot Road Gang |
|
Base 12 |
Eastern Freeway Depot |
|
150 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
180 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
137 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
161 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
162 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
186 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
231 |
Deer Park Road Gang |
|
Base 23 |
Deer Park Depot |
|
1240 |
Fowler Rd Road Gang |
|
1239 |
Fowler Rd Road Gang |
|
1250 |
Fowler Rd Road Gang |
|
1241 |
Fowler Rd Road Gang |
|
209 |
Fowler Rd Road Gang |
|
Base 11 |
Fowler Rd Depot |
|
1940-1945 |
Bridge Maintenance Section |
|
Base 3 |
Denmark St Kew, “Traffic 900” or “VicRoads 900” on VKC
Police Network |
VicRoads
Radio Network Frequencies
|
Ch |
RXF |
TXF |
CTCSS |
Licensed Usage |
Callsign |
|
|
151.5750 |
SIMPLEX |
|
Traffic Signal Control & Camera Data
Sending , M80 Variable Speed Sign Control, |
|
|
|
152.5750 |
SIMPLEX |
|
|
|
|
|
152.7750 |
SIMPLEX |
|
Traffic Signal Control, Speed, Red and Traffic
Camera Data Sending |
|
|
|
170.8800 |
SIMPLEX |
|
|
|
|
59 |
461.9500 |
452.4500 |
|
Roads Corporation Traffic Management Centre, 60 Denmark
St, Kew, Vic. |
VH3OJK |
|
58 |
462.6250 |
453.1250
|
|
Vic Roads
Incident Management Team-[Metro Works Group]
|
VKF431
|
|
54 |
462.6500 |
453.1500 |
|
Roads Corporation Traffic Management Centre, 60
Denmark St, Kew, Vic. |
VZ3JX |
|
NEW |
462.2250 |
452.7250 |
|
Repeater at 47 Viewpoint Avenue, Glen Waverly-50 watts |
VLF537 |
|
NEW |
462.8000 |
453.3000 |
|
Repeater at: Normanby Road, Notting Hill-50 watts |
VLF537 |
|
NEW |
463.5000 |
454.0000 |
|
Repeater at 26 Thornton Crescent, Mticham-50 watts |
VLF537 |
|
NEW |
464.9500 |
455.4500 |
|
Used when VicRoads wishes to link repeaters for better
coverage. |
VMF 500 |
|
|
484.5000 |
|
|
GEETRAF P/L Geelong Traffic Management |
|
These
frequencies are no longer licensed to VicRoads: 466.7500[457.2000]; 467.0750;
491.3500[496.5500]; 170.8800 and have been deleted from the table.
Incident
Management Team-Channel 58- Callsigns
|
Callsign |
Usage |
|
Patrol 1 |
Team Supervisor |
|
Patrol 2 |
Tullamarine Freeway, Calder Freeway, Western Ring Road
(Greensborough to Western Highway) |
|
Patrol 3 |
Westgate Freeway & Bridge, Princes Freeway, Western
Ring Road (Westgate Freeway to Western Highway) |
|
Patrol 4 |
Monash Freeway (Toorak Road to South Gippsland Highway* |
*Vic Roads do not manage traffic on the City Link sections of the Monash & Tullamarine Freeways. This is done by City Link’s own staff.
Eastern
Fwy depot numbers are allocated on a personal basis i.e. the numbers are
allocated to a specific individual
Transport
Safety Service (TSS) cars-the ones with the magenta light bars-are usually on
the VicGov Telstra SmartNet SMR network but occasionally use 462.6250 MHz (ch
58 on VicRoads Phillips FM900 radios).
The following no longer exist Line marking, Asphalt, Materials, Workshops (they
were privatised and became AH Plant Hire .They since lost the contract for the
supply and maintenance of VicRoads trucks etc to Porter Plant Pty Ltd, who do
use radio. VicRoads Internal Departments of, Survey, Auto Grade group etc have
gone from the radio system as well although they still exist within VicRoads
Note also
that VicRoads is responsible for maintaining major roads only, such as Bell St,
Westall Rd, Dandenong Rd, Ring Road, Freeways. Your local street and any roads
VicRoads are not responsible for are the responsibility of your local council.
Your council will employ or sub-contract it’s own road maintenance gang.
Bitumen
resurfacing crews now come under a separate company called Sprayline. They have
their own allocations of three state wide UHF frequencies, plus can use the
VicGov SMR. In Melbourne and Country Vic, another company does road maintenance
for the local council roads under contract called Quality
Roads (My uncle works for them and they are based in Drouin, but do all
road work for Nillumbik Shire here in Melbourne!!)
Nearly all
road maintenance in Metropolitan Melbourne, and a fair bit of country Victoria
is done by contractors.
A big thanks to “The Road Worker”
for supplying this information
Vic Roads
responded to just over 200,000 calls last year via the Traffic Control Centre.
Traffic
Control Officer Ron Winn is the man in charge at the Vic Roads Communications
Centre
In
Melbourne it is mostly the IMT who still use radio.
OLD Callsigns (Only a few
still used but with different meanings]
|
Callsign |
Actual User |
Base 3 |
Traffic Control & Communications Centre, manned 24h/7
days, Primary Emergency & General Radio Traffic Base |
Base 11,12, 23 |
Vic Roads Maintenance Depots |
Roads 01-20 |
Senior Officers |
|
Signal 01-99 |
Traffic Management Officers |
|
Cars 500-505 |
Traffic Signal Maintenance |
|
Traffic 01-115 |
Enforcement Officers of Roads Corporation. (Mostly for
booking overweight trucks etc) |
|
Roads 21-30 |
Regulations Enforcement Officers |
|
Roads 31-40 |
Asphalt workers |
|
Roads 41-50 |
Bridge Maintenance workers |
|
Roads 51-59 |
Auto Grade Group |
|
Roads 60-90 |
Plant Department-fitter & turners; instructor drivers;
electrical |
|
Roads 91-120 |
VicRoads Benalla Regional Office |
|
Traffic 116-199 |
The Transport Safety Services (TSS)-The VicRoads Cars with
the purple lights, and Vic Taxi Directorate |
|
Roads 121-130 |
Not used |
|
Roads 131-180 |
Metropolitan Region |
|
Roads 181-260 |
Dandenong Region |
|
Roads 261-300 |
Geelong Region |
|
Roads 301-310 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 311-330 |
Wodonga Region |
|
Roads 331-340 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 341-380 |
Traralgon Region |
|
Roads 381-430 |
Bairnsdale Region |
|
Roads 431-470 |
Line Markers and Traffic Engineering |
|
Roads 471-490 |
Survey and Traffic Engineering |
|
Roads 491-540 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 541-580 |
Horsham Region |
|
Roads 581-600 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 601-650 |
Warrnambool Region |
|
Roads 651-660 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 661-680 |
Materials Division |
|
Roads 681-730 |
Ballarat Region |
|
Roads 731-830 |
Benalla Region (This callsign is usually only heard in
Benalla, on simplex VHF frequencies) |
|
Roads 831-840 |
Reserved |
|
Roads 841-899 |
Bendigo Region |
|
Roads 900-920 |
West Gate Bridge Traffic Control-speed regulations/changes
to limit /accidents etc |
|
Roads 920-999 |
Reserved |
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This
Update: Fourth Edition, December 10, 2003. With thanks to the anonymous
VicRoads “Road Worker”