[TheList] Music over the Police/Fire channel

Sun May 30 18:50:18 AEST 2010

Yes Mike

You can see why I get a little angry when people (whether it be, in just 
tounge and cheek or not) like to make sweeping statements about old 
legislation without first doing a little research.
Hey I'm no prude but I am sick and tired of this crap chinese sh*t 
coming into the country with no control over it and we are left picking 
up the pieces.

Another rant will be the battle we have coming up losing the ATV 
frequencies to freeview with no compensation in sight. By compensation I 
mean another freq or a sat freq on freeview offered in its place.
Meanwhile MED staff have another coffee and sit around refreshing 
themselves with new regulations...........Oh and they go after a person 
who puts a video of a high powered Linear he built on youtube showing a 
"lightning bolt" (long spark) being drawn off the aerial.
At least he had the technical knowledge to build one from scratch, which 
is more than some amateurs these days could muster.

Victimless crime (Judges notes from the day) Nice catch MED Staff and 
nice press release worded with the appropriate spin to suit. But in the 
meantime another 3 radios were sold on trade me with not a care what 
freq and whether it has a type approval for NZ. Having the potential to 
cause grief on emergency channels.

PS No I am not Mr Potter just a P*sed off Amateur radio operator moaning 
about the MED's lack of interest.

Regards
Steve Austin.

Mike Barnes (ZL3TMB) wrote:
> Hi Steve
>  
> Shame the law is guilty till proven innocent, in this 
> case............... This must have slipped through when we got free 
> Ham licences.
> I now see why MED does sweet F.A  There are that many low powered and 
> not so low powered devices coming into NZ. Parts of the UHF ham band 
> is now
> useless. If MED would at least do their job. The two UHF repeaters in 
> Chch would not be jammed open with remote crud...... Masked with ctcss 
> but not a real solution.
>  
> End rant.......
>  
> Cheers
> Mike 
>  
>  
>  " If you are in posession of the apparatus you Bob are presumed to 
> have used it under current legislation. Whether you pressed the PTT 
> button or not.
> That includes Tait radios programmed to Police and Fire or any other 
> radio transmitter. The accused now has to prove they did not use the 
> radio for the court system NOT the MED to prove you did.
> A small change to the law that most people do not realise has been 
> passed a while ago in legislation.
>
>
> Regards
> Steve Austin

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