[TheList] Christchurch Ambulance now digital

Wed Aug 3 17:08:05 AEST 2011

I forgot to state that this is happening in Christchurch........Other areas
not affected....Yet......But tests are happening.
The biggest drawback from P25 is the hungry for power repeaters.....Constant
5 amp draw. Not good for remote sites.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Steve Austin <nzscanners at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe some here do not understand P25 and the systems involved.
> Ambulance are sharing the Police network in a testing phase.......They are
> on a node of the P25 system.....No problem plenty of space...
> Its also easier to put a ready to go radio onto the p25 system...Its just
> unfortunate that the test radios happen to be AES/DES 256bit encrypted
> radios.
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Oliver <nzoliver at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> They ARE trialling P25 encrypted. I know this for a fact. You can hear
>> some of the ambos on analogue as not all of them have the new radios. The
>> amount of ambo traffic on the analogue is way down if you have been a long
>> time listener.........
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------**--------------------
>> From: "Neill Ellis" <tgsnoopy at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 12:17 PM
>> To: "Grant Carroll" <grant.carroll at xtra.co.nz>; <thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [TheList] Christchurch Ambulance now digital
>>
>>
>>  Hi Grunter,
>>>
>>> I think you might be on to something. I'm pretty sure the media would
>>> have let us know if Ambo's were trialling or had gone secure digital.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Neill.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/08/2011 11:50 a.m., Grant Carroll wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am still listening to ambos on the same frequencies in the ESB band
>>>> they have been on for ages. This is on an analogue scanner and my digital
>>>> scanner with no "P25" coming up to suggest the transmissions are digital and
>>>> obviously if I can hear them on an analogue scanner they aren't. Am I
>>>> missing something here? Are they being simulcast on analogue and new digital
>>>> frequencies for now or is their going digital just a vicious rumour?
>>>> Cheers guys.
>>>> Grunter1.
>>>>
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