[TheList] TheList Digest, Vol 94, Issue 12

Tue Aug 15 21:14:17 AEST 2017

Ah interesting, I cant say ive ever seen/heard of an ambo command vehicle.
I heard 5 or so years ago from a Sergent that some areas will not go 
digital at all due to the cost (when they can use cellphones which seems 
to be happening a lot now anyway). Im also sure everyone is well aware 
that digital is very hit and miss and while it has some good features, 
will never compare with analog for hilly areas etc.

On 15/08/2017 11:00 p.m., DogSecurity - Richard wrote:
> In central areas, fire have their own exclusive repeaters, out rural 
> they use the police ones directly, no linking in place. I believe 
> they're all police owned repeaters though (but I'm not sure)
>
> The fire RTs have access to the police ESA even in fire exclusive 
> areas (IE for us, fire have Ham1 even though they only use the waikato 
> fire network which is linked to vegas, TGA and taupo networks - Anyone 
> outside of a 50ish Km radius to the city use police (excluding Raglan, 
> as they can't get in due to the divvy)
>
> To the best of my knowledge, police don't have access to the VHF 
> liason channel that fire and ambulance have access to, messages are 
> passed through the comms centres. Also I've never heard police on the 
> Ambulance repeaters. I don't think Ambulance will go digital anytime 
> soon, if they did then they would be able to tap into the P25 police 
> network, the problem being ambulance stations and hospitals heavily 
> rely on 5tone, and 5tone is only available on conventional channels.
>
> Of interest in regards to your last email, ambulance have a command 
> vehicle somewhere, I think wellington or chch based. I had a look on 
> 111emergency but couldn't find images of it. I've never heard of it in 
> use so I don't think it's Auckland based.
>
>
> Richard
> ----------------------
> Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation and 
> spelling.
>
> On 15 August 2017 10:38:33 PM NZST, Radio Scanner <rs157950 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     Somehow I completely missed the second part of your message with the
>     photo links!
>
>     There is what appears to be VHF or even ESA in the middle of the roof,
>     right in front of the extendable mast for a total of 3? lower frequency
>     antennas. I have no idea how these vans are setup but id like to think
>     they had the capability to contact fire/ambo via their own channels. (I
>     realize fire have access to the police repeaters sometimes although IDK
>     if thats because comms links them or fire are just switching their radio
>     over to a police VHF repeater).
>
>     On 15/08/2017 9:26 p.m., DogSecurity - Richard wrote:
>
>         I've never heard of that, while those images are of a
>         Palmerston North AOS van, and my knowledge mainly with RFI
>         aerials rather than Pacific (which those look they are) none
>         of them look VHF to me :) Cheers, Richard On 15/08/17 20:50,
>         Radio Scanner wrote:
>
>             ve as a command post for major incidents as well? If so I
>             would imagine there is also a VHF or two for communicating
>             on ambo channels and with fire portables. Possibly another
>             ESA band radio dedicated to fire comms. 
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