[TheList] Unusual Police Frequency

Wed Sep 17 16:42:36 AEST 2014

Great post Richard,

Are wellington Fire on P25 conventional or on their own talk group on the
existing police network.

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Subject: Re: [TheList] Unusual Police Frequency

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...
>
> Seems a very odd to re-transmit / repeat something like this.
>
> 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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