[TheList] Fire going digital

Tue May 17 16:16:53 AEST 2011

Talking to a cop the other day he reckons Dunedin/Otago won't being going digital till after the world cup.

From: suckerpunchnz at hotmail.com
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:03:01 +1200
Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital

Same here.I'm in Auckland, Police have gone digital too.
The cost for Fire to take over the Police repeaters maybe far cheaper then re-equipping all their trucks with new radios and re-developing the technology behind their K code transmission units.
After all, what do Fire have to gain by going Digital?

> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:54 +1200
> From: kiwi56 at paradise.net.nz
> To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital
> 
> Funny how both my son and neighbour work in the hutt valley which is 
> already digital as far as the cops are concerned.
> As for waiarapa they certainly have not gone digital as I just heard 
> carterton and ngawi responding to a fire over there this morning so not 
> sure where that information is coming from that they must have gone 
> digital because they are obviously wrong.
> Guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.
> 
> On 5/17/2011 12:47 PM, Mike Barnes (ZL3TMB) wrote:
> > In areas where police have gone digital there will be pressure on fire to go
> > digital.
> > As we know they currently share the police repeaters, this is all good till
> > the police decommission their ESA band repeaters affecting rural fire.
> > > From what I've heard fire won't be encrypted, so a P25 scanner will work,
> > but a lot of water to under the bridge yet.
> >
> > So it makes sense that parts of the country know nothing about it, their
> > police are still analogue.
> >
> > As Ambo is not currently government funded, they have little/nothing to gain
> > by going digital, they are already on ESB band which works well for them.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz] On Behalf Of Geoff
> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2011 8:43 a.m.
> > To: glennmc at orcon.net.nz; thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> > Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital
> >
> > not sure where you are but I get mas cart and featherston etc regularly
> > here in the hutt valley on 75.9625 and was talking to my son and my
> > neighbour who are both fire crews and they know nothing about digital
> > happening in the very near future.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 5/16/2011 10:30 PM, Glenn McAllister wrote:
> >> Wairarapa seems to be all digital.  Haven't heard analog for months.  Ambo
> >> still at least partially analog.
> >>
> >>> 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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