[TheList] Police VHF linking

Tue May 12 17:12:52 AEST 2020

I wish this kind of thing happened in Auckland.

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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:55 PM Darryl Healy <darryl0768healy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi listers
>
> I live in the lovely city of Timaru and today something that has never
> happened before happened.
>
> An old police VHF channel and current rural Fire channel livened up with
> police comms chatter...
>
> It seems the radios in Dunedin have been linked in such a way that I am
> hearing Dunedin comms on 75.4500mhz.
> It shows as the old Timaru CH1 and is a current rural fire channel that
> they refer to as the Lyttelton channel.
>
> Much to my delight it's a pleasant surprise but I'm not expecting it to
> last long before they change their shift configurations etc.
>
> The downside to this is I can only hear comms call, no units. All in all
> I'm not complaining about it as its busy down there today.
>
> Does anybody have any further knowledge on how the radio linking works? I
> understand police share a platform with fire but how is Dunedin Comms
> linked up to Timaru? Could it be an extra plug on a National Fire dispatch
> desk as I understand they're based in one location for the entire south
> island, or could it be an extra plug in on a police comms desk which an
> extra plug could have been crossed by mistake. (I'm not sure if there is
> one or 2 police comms locations for the South Island).
>
> Those in Christchurch and wider Canterbury should scan their fire
> frequencies to see if this is the same in wider Canterbury or even perhaps
> the south island. Although it is only the Dunedin channel, not Central
> Otago or Oamaru.
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