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Are you getting
the Most from your HF Radio?
HFoZ
is Australia's newest HF Radio Network. After constant requests
from all over Australia, finally we have bowed to pressure to launch
this new and exciting HF Network. As you'll see from below, HFoZ
will serve to provide many additional new services, most
of which have been made available for the first time in Australia.
IMPORTANT
NOTE
Please note that HFoZ
uses DEDICATED frequencies and Network infrastructure for the
all the benefits listed below - HFoZ Network and frequencies
are NOT shared for any other calling type purpose - e.g., Radtel
radiotelephone calls are kept exclusively to Radtel Network,
HFoZ calling is on HFoZ network, all COMPLETELY SEPARATE |
Before
we get into nitty gritties, HFoZ will allow you to get much
more usage from your HF Radio and assist in bringing together many
other HF Radio users with similar interests to share all knowledge.
With the continual
increase in the interest of HF Radio and the substantial growing
number of sales throughout Australia, there's no doubt, a need for
this type of network was warranted.
Radtel
Network is a completely separate network and will still
provide exclusive operation for radiotelephone calls
and Emergency Assistance.
Overview
HFoZ,
has 5 carefully selected channels, ranging from 3 to 15Mhz. These
frequencies have been (for the first time) approved for Voice and
limited Data usage, which will allow the radio user to further expand
the usage of their radio.
| Voice
Comms - Vehicle to Vehicle |
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| HFoZ,
gives you access to voice communications between vehicles without
the interruptions from scheduled reports and or fixed times
for reporting and logging. |
| SMS
- Paging Message Service - Vehicle to Vehicle |
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| Most
modern day radios are equipped with SMS or sometimes known as
Paging. This feature allows the user the facility to send and
receive short messages usually up to a maximum of around 64
characters between radios. It is particularly handy in times
when signal strength may not be as good as required for normal
voice communications. |
| GPS
Position Reporting - Vehicle to Vehicle |
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| GPS
Position Reporting (providing the HF Radio has a GPS interfaced)
will allow the user to send and receive GPS positions to and
from other vehicles fitted with GPS. - Special HFoZ Deal
- Click HERE |
| SAFETY
LOGGING - GPS - SMS - EMAIL - DATA |
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HFoZ
has just completed one of the most exciting developments in
HF Radio history - Both GPS Position Data Logging (Vehicle Tracking),
SMS or Paging Data Logging and HF Email, all now available for
the first time in Australia! - We're extremely proud to announce
that these exciting new developments are now operational. Please
read below for more details. |
| GPS
Position Reporting - Vehicle to Base Tracking |
--View
Demo - Click Here |
GPS
Position Data Logging allows the radio user to send their co-ordinates
to any of the designated HFoZ Base sites for safety logging
purposes. The base will then automatically store this data for
any possible safety and emergency purposes recall. It also gives
your family, friends and business associates access to view
these stored records from our secure database, by simply using
any normal internet connection, via 'user name' and 'password'.
In addition it wil give them the facility to upload these GPS
positions to a mapping page (Natmap Raster 1:250K Topographical)
for easy reference. This completely eliminates the need for
Voice logging to a base operator and is far more reliable than
Voice Comms particularly in times of weak signal strength and
poor propagation. -
Special HFoZ Deal - Click
HERE |
| SMS
- Paging Message Service - Vehicle to Base |
--View
Demo - Click Here |
| SMS
or Paging allows the user to send text messages (i.e., safety
logging messages or just general messages) up to a maximum of
64 characters for Codan radios or 32 characters for Barrett
radios, to any of the designated HFoZ Base Sites. The information
will then be stored on our secure database for any possible
emergency purposes recall. It also gives your family, friends
and business associates access to view these stored records
via any normal internet connection using 'user name' and 'password'.
Once again this feature as in GPS above, completely eliminates
the need for Voice logging to a base operator and is far more
reliable in times of weak signal strength. |
| EMAIL
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HFoZ
EMAIL
will allow the radio to send short messages (up to 60 characters
for Codan NGT and 9323 and up to 28 characters for Barrett
2050) to any designated preset email addresses (up to 99 email
address can be stored). However this service currently does
not allow emails from computer to the radio -
** Email is scheduled for operation approximately June 2009
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| HFoZ
- Plus
------ The Ultimate
Safety Plan! |
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As we've
said we LISTEN to your feedback, subsequently HFoZ has implemented
a NEW option - Effective immediately HFoZ in conjunction with
Radtel Network are now offering a special joint package which
will include not only all of HFoZ standard features, but also
Radtel Assist, Emergency Assistance Package - Listed
below are the included features;
- HFoZ
- All standard features as listed above and below -
Provided by HFoZ Network
- 24
Hour Operator Emergency Assistance - Provided by Radtel
Network
- Vehicle
Safety Logging - Provided by Radtel Network
- Message
Service - Provided by Radtel Network
- Direct
Selcall Emergency Contact for - RFDS, Police, NRMA,
RAC, RACQ, RACV, RACT etc - Provided by Radtel Network
So as
you can see HFoZ is NOW offering the complete package without
sacrificing network congestion and or incorrect usage of frequencies
Just to
re-enforce as noted above, that HFoZ and Radtel Network features
are to be kept on SEPARATE networks/frequencies hence fulfilling
our ongoing commitment to provide Australia's ONLY premium
networks
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| A.L.E.
or C.A.L.M. |
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ALE stands
for Automatic Link Establishment or for Codan it's sometime
referred to as CALM which stands for Codan Automatic Link
Management. This is a relatively new feature not yet been
used on any Australian network. Another first, HFoZ's
infrastructure will eventually be setup to include this very
handy feature.
To explain
the operation of ALE in somewhat simple terms, the feature,
when operative continually sends out at preprogrammed intervals,
what is known as 'soundings', these 'soundings' check the
signal strength for the chosen frequencies, time of day and
distance of transmission to the selected base or mobile radio
at various times throughout the operating cycle of the radio.
It then stores the information in a memory for when you wish
to call one of these mobiles or base stations. So when a call
is made the radio does all the thinking for you.
The feature
truly allows 'One Touch' dialing from your radio and takes
all the 'guess' work out of it. Just let the radio do 'all'
those tedious tasks automatically - selection of channels,
beacon calling, selcalling etc.
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| Users
Weekend |
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Periodically
throughout the year, there'll be weekends set aside for subscribers
to HFoZ to get together over a weekend and not only
meet the 'Voice behind the Microphone' but also learn from
each other all the pros and cons about HF. Training sessions,
technical seminars and basically the opportunity to just relax
and enjoy, will be all on the agenda.
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| Finale |
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If you
think this network might be helpful, and you would like to
be part in the commencement of HFoZ, please give us a call
or email
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