The invention discloses a random access method and random access equipment. The random access method comprises the following steps that: uplink random access channels of uplink member carrier waves are grouped; one-to-one correspondence between downlink member carrier waves and uplink random access channel groups is established; a base station sends broadcast information to a terminal on each downlink member carrier wave, and according to the correspondence, loads a time-frequency resource collocation instruction of the uplink random access channel groups corresponding to the downlink member carrier waves on the broadcast information; the base station receives a random access leading sequence sent by the terminal from the uplink random access channel groups, and according to the correspondence, determines a downlink member carrier wave corresponding to the uplink random access channel groups sending the random access leading sequence; and the base station sends a random access response to the terminal on the determined downlink member carrier wave. The scheme of the invention saves downlink resources.