[TheList] Fire going digital

Mon May 16 19:27:26 AEST 2011

Have they finished the trail in Wellington yet?

From: suckerpunchnz at hotmail.com
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:25:53 +1200
Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital

I've heard that Fire won't be going digital, due to its big expense, which they probably can't afford now due to the Christchurch Earthquake.The big expense is caused by the fact that their status code transmission units will need to be totally custom redesigned and rebuilt.

From: zl3tpq at hotmail.com
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:27:25 +0000
Subject: Re: [TheList] Wellington Fire going digital

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. 

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