[TheList] Music over the Police/Fire channel

Fri May 28 09:52:21 AEST 2010

Steve Austin wrote:
> The interference is in fact an uplink that is running. the music is the 
> National programe (Concert program) on national radio. I have been 
> monitoring this issue for more that 3 years now. With the recent changes 
> to the radio freq's it is now more prevalent. Its a commercial radio 
> station up link not a person maliciously causing it. The RFS (or MED) 
> don't appear to be following it through. Probably because the users i.e 
> police/fire havent seen it as a problem until now.

The interference this week was an LPFM station.

Intermod involving other stations as well is still a remote possibility.

Given how hard it is to solve these problems with analogue systems just think 
how bad it will be with APCO P25.