[TheList] Fire going digital

Tue May 17 16:37:40 AEST 2011

GOOD TO HEAR ,

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Jesse R. <j.ruzza at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  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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