LUNENBURG COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA

Last Updated January 12, 2011
Information from Stephen, Al, Doug and TAFL Associated maps from Stephen.

The vast majority of departments in Lunenburg County are paged by Scotia Business Ctr in Bridgewater, through a variety of transmitters. The exceptions are Hubbards which is dispatched by the HRM dispatch centre in Dartmouth over the 153.89 MHz Queensland paging transmitter, New Ross which is paged by Valley Dispatch in Kentville, and Bridgewater which pages itself. All stations use VHF for everyday operations with the exception of Hubbards, which uses the TMR on the rural HRFES talk groups. Hubbards no doubt retains VHF radios for mutual aid usage in other Lunenburg County areas. All departments have the capability of using the Sherwood IMRS fire grid repeater on 152.21 MHz, and indeed some use it for paging and operations.

Scotia Business Ctr has a paging transmitter at Newcombville on 153.26 MHz, used by several departments and another listed for 167.1 at Oakhill.

In the chart below, in the frequency column if there is a pair separated by a slash, this indicates a repeater pair with the repeater output appearing first, unless tehre is a an asterisk which is intended to indicate that I do not know which of the two frequencies is the output, and which is the input. Sx stands for simplex

There is listed in TAFL a repeater at Petite Riviere licenced to the provincial government on 154.83/159.54. The usage of this repeater is unknown but you may wish to program it in, as it may have some connection to fire or other services.

#	Map	NAME	PAGE	frequency	CTCSS
01	S	BAKER’S SETTLEMENT	153.260	151.760 Sx	100.0
02	East	BLANDFORD	153.260	153.620 Sx
03	East	BLOCKHOUSE	153.800	153.800/158.880
04	S	BRIDGEWATER (see special note below)	154.340	154.340 Sx
05	S	CHELSEA	153.260	154.635 Sx	100.0
06	East	CHESTER	153.440	153.440 Sx
07	East	CHESTER BASIN	153.935	153.935 Sx
08	S	CONQUERALL BANK	153.980	153.980 Sx	142.6
09	East	CORNWALL	155.265	155.265 Sx
10	S	DAYSPRING	153.26/154.325	154.325 Sx 154.055 Sx
11	S	HEBB’S CROSS	153.260	151.325 Sx	100.0
12	S	HEBBVILLE	154.430	154.430/151.835*	173.8
13	North	HEMFORD	153.200	153.200 Sx
14	East	HUBBARDS (disp by HRFES)	153.89	TMR (154.25/159.825 may still be used as well)
15	East	INDIAN POINT	?	159.135 Sx
16	S	ITALY CROSS/MIDDLEWOOD	153.425	153.425 Sx
17	S	LAHAVE	153.770	153.770/151.385	114.8
18	S	LAPLAND	153.260	150.950 Sx	100.0
19	S	LUNENBURG	153.875	153.875/158.450 155.190 Sx 157.455 Sx	71.9
20	East	MAHONE BAY	154.710	154.710/159.330	123.0
21	East	MARTINS RIVER	159.650	154.650 Sx
22	S	MIDVILLE BRANCH	153.260	153.920 Sx	100.0
23	North	NEW GERMANY	154.055	154.055 Sx 154.10 Sx??
24	East	NEW ROSS		152.330/157.905
25	S	NEWCOMBVILLE	153.260	155.295 Sx	100.0
26	S	NORTHFIELD	151.145	151.145 Sx 155.610 Sx
27	North	OAKHILL	167.100	151.295 Sx
28	S	PETITE RIVIERE	153.200	152.705/158.280 153.200 Sx	DCS 023
29	S	PLEASANTVILLE	151.490	151.490 Sx	100.0
30	S	RIVERPORT	154.085	154.085 Sx	100.0
31	North	UNITED COMMUNITIES (Cherry Hill)	??	151.145 Sx 151.07 Sx
32	East	WALDEN	154.555	154.555 Sx
33	East	WESTERN SHORE	154.700	154.770 Sx
34	S	WILEVILLE	153.260	154.295 Sx	100.0

CTCSS/DCS tone information may be incomplete and additions to them, or any other corrections are invited. Input frequencies are also requested.

All or almost all of these departments have the capability of operating on the obsolescent provincial VHF Fire Grid through the repeater at Sherwood Hill on 152.21 MHz. Some might conduct operations on this frequency, rather than the listed one.

Many fire departments in Nova Scotia also have capability of limited use of the 800 MHz provincial trunk for liaison on matters of VFD administration, or for communications with other agencies such as EHS, DNR or the RCMP.

Bridgewater FD is also reported to have in its radios: 152.27 (former McCarthy Towing), 169.425 Town Parks and Rec, 151.955 (Tac 2 and former Public Works), SCBA 154.57 simplex.