[TheList] Emergency Services Protocols and Call Signs

Mon Apr 13 12:53:59 AEST 2020

Hi everyone,

Grant, apologies, from my home in Auckland, I can only hear Police on the
Area 1 Waikato Rural channel. Occasionally hear Area 2 Northland channel
from the North Shore. Being able to hear metro channels on the scanner back
in the day was great.

Regarding Dunedin and Central Otago channels, thanks for the response. That
will have to satisfy my interest for now until I can travel again! I have
taken a look through The List Archives, and can see there are several
articles to peruse through.

I do know of a firefighter who used to be based in the Nelson area about
ten years ago, and they described there could often be times when Police
and Fire would want to talk at the same time.

Cheers,

James.

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 13:57, Grant Carroll <grant.carroll at xtra.co.nz>
wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I travel up to Nelson and Blenheim regularly with work and listen to the
> Tasman police channels up there and occasionally down to Dunedin where you
> can hear both the Dunedin and Central Otago channels.
>
> There is definitely a range of informality but I think this relates more
> to the Comms operator. There are a couple of guys who do the Tasman
> channels (the funniest one is Sean) who are total crackups and keep
> everyone amused (even those using scanners!). I also heard these guys on
> Canterbury channels before they went digital and they behaved the same way.
>
> James - you mentioned that the Auckland metro police channels are quite
> disciplined and if you are commenting about things currently it raises the
> obvious question of how are you managing to still listen to them?
>
> Cheers and hope everyone is staying safe.
>
> Grant.
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