[TheList] Palmerston North Police

Thu Sep 27 17:05:01 AEST 2018

Palmerston region does have a couple digital UHF channels but if  they are
still using analog for UHF I doubt they would only change over only VHF...
maybe they have rotated Tx the on the low band repeaters.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 18:58 DogSecurity - Richard, <richard at dogsecurity.co.nz>
wrote:

> I understand they've been playing with the linking, from what I saw
> elsewhere, however unless they've gone digital, the ESA band frequencies
> won't be disabled (at least permanently - the middle of the north island
> seemed to be getting hit by ducting today, maybe from the south island, the
> signal was too poor to hear who it was) due to the vehicle radios all being
> the main radio.
>
> Easy way to tell if they've gone digital, if they have the 1m long
> aerials, the ESA band is still in the cars. If the aerials about 530mm long
> it's VHF (digital).. This doesn't include the crossband link aerial (which
> will be 150ish mm long) but that won't be on all cars.
>
> Have you tried another receiver in case yours has gone deaf?
> ------------------------------
> Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation and
> spelling.
>
> On 27 September 2018 2:24:13 PM NZST, Martin Cook <majocook21 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> PN Police appear to have dropped all their 75/76 MHz frequencies and are
>> now using the 485/486MHz frequencies exclusively. 485.225MHz appears to now
>> be PM 1 comms, all the other frequencies in the area are linked to this
>> frequency. Wanganui is unchanged, 75.7875MHz loud'n'clear in Ashhurst.
>>
>> Cheers - Martin ZL2MC
>>
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