[TheList] Unusual Police Frequency

Wed Sep 17 17:45:15 AEST 2014

not sure sorry mate, I live in Hamilton.   I've heard they're digital, that's all I know.  I'm not familiar enough with digital, but I assume they would be separate from Police as all the police channels are encrypted, and from what I understand Fire are just digital with no encryption.  I think I read it on this list so perhaps someone in the area could pipe up and let everyone know :) 
Richard
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On 17 September 2014 6:42:36 PM NZST, nino <nino2678 at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>Great post Richard,
>
>Are wellington Fire on P25 conventional or on their own talk group on
>the
>existing police network.
>
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>DogSecurity - Richard
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>
>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? :-)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> 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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