State Emergency Services (SES)

• HF / VHF / UHF Frequencies
• GRN Talkgroups

The State Emergency Service (SES) primarily use the SAGRN for all radio communications throughout South Australia, some remote units however continue to maintain HF radio equipment for situations where GRN coverage does not exist. The SES have access to a number of SAGRN talkgroups for operations and planning as well as UHF simplex channels and VHF frequencies for local communications at incidents.

All SES call receipt and dispatch functions are carried out through the Metropolitan Fire Service Communications Centre (Callsign = Adelaide Fire) in Wakefield street Adelaide. When a call for an SES tasking is received the details are taken and then a response page is sent to the closest SES unit, the page must be acknowledged within six minutes of it being sent or another unit is responded.

SES units communicate with the Adelaide Fire communications centre on talkgroup 001-OPERATIONS-1

Regional duty officers communicate with SES volunteers on talkgroup 009-SOUTH REGION and 010-NORTH REGION. SES units will use their local talkgroups for command and control communications at incidents and between vehicles and their local headquarters.

The SES use the SAGRN paging network for response and general messaging.

Vehicle callsigns consist of the unit name followed by two numbers. The first number represents the vehicle type, the second is the individual identifier for that vehicle. For example, Prospect 32 is the second 4x4 Rescue / Storm vehicle from the Prospect unit. 

SES Mobile radio on talkgroup 'Bravo Primary SES OPS1'