[TheList] Palmerston North Police

Thu Sep 27 17:28:20 AEST 2018

correct that was what I was referring to. the 10 year old sites.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 19:15 Tristin Davis, <tristindavis at windowslive.com>
wrote:

> Are those UHF digital channels recent additions that may show the area is
> about to switch or are they the original 'specialist teams' digital that
> was installed ~ 10 years ago for AOS etc?
>
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> 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?
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>> 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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