[TheList] NZFS Trialing Digital in Wgton.???

Wed Dec 5 10:36:38 AEDT 2012

The level of information security required by Fire and Ambo is a lot lower
than Police. Also, given the fact that there's an additional cost per radio
to enable encryption, I'd say that at least in the forseeable future,
you'll find Fire and Ambo using unencrpyted digital.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Tristin Davis <tristindavis at windowslive.com
> wrote:

>  I heard Christchurch Ambo went digital about 18 months ago, considering
> they would have been trialling the police network a bit like Fire are doing
> in Wellington at the moment the question that may help is:     Is
> Christchurch Ambo Encrypted at it stands today? The answer to that question
> is probably the answer to if Wellington Fire is currently or if they will
> be in the end..... Although of course the requirements of each service
> could be different therefore that isn't always the case.
>
> I do know the Fire Service made a media release about a year ago stating
> "the primary reason for going digital was security of voice transmissions"
> however so that may answer the question too.
>
> The only way to find out for sure is to have someone in Wellington with a
> digital scanner advise once the digital channel is delinked from analogue
> eventually.
> (Whether anyone will be willing would be another story and i for one won't
> be buying an expensive digital scanner until i can be certain it will get
> something worthwhile in the long term)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> From: nzoliver at outlook.com
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> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 06:24:09 +1300
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> Subject: Re: [TheList] NZFS Trialing Digital in Wgton.???
>
> Hi,
>
> Are they encrypted?
>
> Oliver
>
>
>  *From:* Shane Vickers <nivick at vodafone.co.nz>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2012 5:27 AM
> *To:* thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> *Subject:* Re: [TheList] NZFS Trialing Digital in Wgton.???
>
> Same frequencies just different talk groups.. the great thing about
> trunking... They will all share the same control channel.
>
>
>
> On 2/12/2012 8:58 p.m., Adrian Harray wrote:
>
>   Wouldn't they use the same repeaters as the police but different
> channels (similar as free view with several channels within a mux)
> otherwise the fire service will have to put up their own repeaters etc
>
> Adrian
>
> a.a.harray at xtra.co.nz
>
> --- On *Sat, 1/12/12, Shane Vickers <nivick at vodafone.co.nz><nivick at vodafone.co.nz>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: Shane Vickers <nivick at vodafone.co.nz> <nivick at vodafone.co.nz>
> Subject: Re: [TheList] NZFS Trialing Digital in Wgton.???
> To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz
> Date: Saturday, 1, December, 2012, 6:33 PM
>
>  Hi all,
>
> Can anyone confirm the band used for the new roll out in Wellington.
>
> Make sense the roll goes to  ESB to align with ambo's and police mobile
> but how will that affect Auckland with their change to F band to
> overcome skip issues with Aussie?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shane
>
> On 11/10/2012 3:32 p.m., John Barnhill wrote:
>
>  Tait testing Newtown’s Appliance Wgton. 221 with Firecoms first on
> Analog then on ‘Digital’ just after 3pm today.
>
> Watch this space as they say!
>
>
>
> John B
>
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