[TheList] Fenz

Sat Oct 19 18:16:56 AEDT 2019

I can't say I've noticed the aerials you mention. But I have noticed some
appliances with the RFI attempt at a ground independent ESA Band aerial (We
tried them on Police Bikes like 20 years back).

https://www.rfiwireless.com.au/mobile-products/vhf-mobile/vhf-ground-independent-mopole-70-77-mhz-threaded-stud.html#.Xaq36GbRWUk
It used to have a spring mounting option.

Stick to the basic quarter wave if you can.

Neill 73 de ZL1TAJ

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 19:50, Gary Stone <kaimaikid at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Definitely UHF antennas - they appear to be RFI elevated feed colinear
> with spring traps
>
> Main reason for asking was to save me having to put another radio into my
> car just for local Fire
>
>
>
>
> On 19/10/2019 5:51 PM, Mark Foster wrote:
>
> Late response. I'm not aware of any IGC channels being fitted onto 'fleet'
> vehicles*.  UHF is used for LMR in the Auckland area, not sure how far down
> into BOP it goes, possible the vehicles you're seeing roam into the
> Auckland (UHF) areas, but the rest are still ESA/75Mhz.  Possible they're
> running shorter antennas.
>
> * Auckland Operational Support vehicles are fitted with their
> IGC-equivalent radios in addition to the UHF LMR.
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 2:23 PM Gary Stone <kaimaikid at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> I am noticing more and more these days fire service utes either running
>> around with both VHF and UHF antennas or just a UHF antenna only (BoP
>> region)
>>
>> Curious if the utes with UHF only still have full contact with Fire
>> Comms or are they just set up for local fire ground radio support?
>>
>> Does Tauranga have a UHF channel now that is linked to the VHF fire comm
>> channel?
>>
>> Also is there any UHF linking in the BoP region?
>>
>> Please don't make me have to go out and purchase a frequency counter and
>> find myself a friendly ute driver and sit there triggering his mic, lol
>>
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