[TheList] Unusual Police Frequency

Wed Sep 17 15:25:58 AEST 2014

I could see the appeal for a couple reasons (despite the fact it's illegal)

Firstly it would be nice just to carry around one radio/Scanner rather 
than a couple.  I have a Tait T5015 (yes only RX is programmed) that's 
450-520MHz so I'm limited to UHF therefore can't get Waikato Fire as 
they are VHF (In fact unless someone can correct me, there's no plans to 
go UHF - and only Auckland and Wellington are UHF, Wellington being 
Digital also)  so if I want to listen to Fire I need to carry around my 
Icom R5 also (which is still a great scanner, by the way)

Secondly, a Uniden 72/92XLT is still around ~180 on TradeMe, a T2000 is 
~150 and has the benefit of being able to transmit. [Don't try this at 
home, kids, illegal, here be dragons etc...] With enough know-how you 
could hook a UHF T2000 to a VHF-High T2000  together and you have an 
instant repeater on the cheap that's tuned for that particular range so 
will outperform any scanner.  Illegal on both the facts that you're not 
paying RSM for a licensed frequency and also because you are 
rebroadcasting something you aren't the intended recipient.  But 
suddenly if you're an Ambo/Air/whoever else fan listening with an RT 
rather than a scanner, you aren't limited to just VHF-High receiving. 
You'd have to be a pretty diehard fan to go through all that effort 
though, and silly because it will catch up with you at some stage.

 >> Richard

On 17/09/2014 4:47 p.m., Chris Hellyar wrote:
> I'd be wondering why...
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> Seems a very odd to re-transmit / repeat something like this.
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> Or have I missed some point somewhere? :-)
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> 150MHz is an odd frequency range to rebroadcast in though, although I guess there have been plenty of Taits on Trademe for cheap that are around that range now that I think of it.
> Richard/Z-master
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