[TheList] Music over the Police/Fire channel

Fri May 28 07:14:00 AEST 2010

Mike Trump wrote:
>   Hi Guys,
> For about the last 5 or so minutes, there has been some clown playing 
> piano music over 75.350MHz.
> It interrupted the turn-out of Ashburton 621 and 627 to a house fire.
> What I'd like to know is where did an idiot like this get the gear to 
> transmit on this frequency?
> Causing this sort of interference to a Life Safety channel, is probably 
> about one of the worst radio offences one can commit, under the Radio 
> Communications Act 1989.
> Sure we used to have the odd person back in the late 80's/early 90's 
> used to block the odd CB channel with music or some other crap, but that 
> is totally different, police or fire staff depend on communications for 
> their own safety and the safety of the public.
> 
> This is just rediculous.

This matter is in hand.

The interference does not appear to have been malicious.