[TheList] Fire radio

Sun Sep 29 18:11:46 AEST 2019

Urgh, replying to myself. I meant VHF, not UHF.

On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 5:11 PM Mark Foster <blakjak at gmail.com> wrote:

> See my earlier email. Also forgot to note that there is some Fire on UHF,
> chiefly rural.
>
> Urban Fire Appliances are generally equipped with a dual-band IGC radio
> for the officer and UHF-only models for the rest of the crew. Access to VHF
> enables liaison with VHF-deployed Rural, other agencies and such.
>
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:51 PM Gary Stone <kaimaikid at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Had a quick convo with a firerie this arvo and he was saying that the
>> fire service is looking to migrate to VHF 140mhz? pretty shortly,
>>
>> Question - have they started to put in the repeaters around the country
>> as yet and if so, any switched on?
>>
>> Also, any Din mount sized scanners for sale within the group? Likes of
>> the T8 or T15 or ???? so long as it can do the 75mhz band
>>
>> Cheers
>> Gary aka kaimaikid
>>
>>
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