[TheList] Fire going digital

Mon May 16 20:30:40 AEST 2011

Wairarapa seems to be all digital.  Haven't heard analog for months.  Ambo
still at least partially analog.

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> Have they finished the trail in Wellington yet?
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> If the 996 was an option here, I'd like it to have the option of a blue
> LED display, that would be cool.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> That is how it should be.
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> Mike T.
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