[TheList] South Is. Police

Sun May 27 10:02:42 AEST 2012

Hi,

re: CHCH Ambo  It appears some of them are, but Leeston etc. are not.  
I'm not carrying a scanner in the car at the moment but about 2 months 
back you'd often hear single sided conversations for inner city calls on 
the dispatch channel, but full conversations for outer suburbs / rural 
calls.

 From that I assume they are in the process or rolling out, or it's half 
done.

Compared to 2 years ago when I last regularly carried the scanner there 
is a lot less traffic in general and from dispatch/ambo conversations it 
seems they are using data terminals / Txt / email or something for 
initial call details as well.  ie: it's uncommon to hear job details but 
they often refer to them.

Just my 2c worth from very non scientific observation. ;-)

Cheers, Me.

On 27/05/2012 11:14 a.m., Tristin Davis wrote:
> It just used to be Blenheim and Marlborough linked with North 
> Canterbury originally. Nelson / West Coast had the seperate channel. 
>  But when Canterbury went digital so did North Canterbury therefore it 
> had to be de-linked from Marlborough. I think thats about when they 
> linked Nelson / Marlborough. And linked West Coast with another low 
> traffic channel.  No other area in NZ are digital other than the 
> districts of Wellington (City, Hutt, Mana, Wairarapa) Auckland 
> (Auckland City, Waitemata, Counties Manukau) Canterbury (Christchurch, 
> Timaru, Ashburton, Kaiapoi etc. I'm pretty sure as of two weeks ago 
> parliament said "a business case was still been presented before 
> funding would be committed to extend the network outside of these 
> centres" I'm personally thinking with a zero budget will this funding 
> even be approved this year? Someone mentioned to me once St John 
> Christchurch was now digital? As i don't live there i don't know if 
> thats true or not.
> Fire service were supposed to be testing the radios in Wellington 
> but unless they are linked back to analogue don't appear to be in use 
> yet.
> So at this stage it appears just Christchurch Ambo?? And the police of 
> the above districts, with the possibility of Wellington Fire 
> shortly.  Hope that answers your question.
>
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