[TheList] Wellington Fire going digital

Sun Jan 30 17:27:25 AEDT 2011

Scott,
I'd be pretty much happy with the release of a UBCD996XT set that was meant to work down here.
When you think about it, if you are going to listen to things like HF you'd buy something like an AR-5000 or whatever.

The thing that tends to annoy me about modern scanning recievers made by Uniden is the fact that they don't have a rotary tuning control, like say the UBC 9000XLT did.
You could tune through the frequencies, stop where you liked and save that frequency.

Sure trunking is the thing these days, but why does everything have to be made so complicated?
I'm not some sort of an idiot that can't use this sort of thing, but why aren't things kept simple?

If the 996 was an option here, I'd like it to have the option of a blue LED display, that would be cool.

Oddly enough guys,
Even though it may come to pass that the Fire Service are going to go digital with AES, it doesn't bother me, look, when they shut down all of the analouge TV frequencies over the next few years
there is going to have to be (as far as frequency auctions go) a new user in them parts of the spectrum, no Government with the promise of nice cash is going to want to leave them areas
laid bare and no-one using them.

I would tend to think we are just like Ham operators in our listening, if one thing doesn't suit us, we move on to the next big thing.

That is how it should be.

Mike T. 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://radiowiki.org.nz/pipermail/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz/attachments/20110130/bf1649ba/attachment.html>