[TheList] Police VHF linking

Tue May 12 19:41:53 AEST 2020

The SDR receiving is fine... The rebroadcasting to the Internet,without permission, is the illegal part.  It's down to interpretation a little - if you're rebroadcasting to just yourself over the Internet via a password protected audio stream is still illegal - but if noone knows.. Still, if you get caught then you have to take it on the chin. 

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On 12 May 2020 9:07:18 pm NZST, Dan Nitschke <dan.nitschke at outlook.com> wrote:
>Hey All!
>
>Thanks for the responses. Completely understand the common sense around
>the rebroadcast of said channel - I'm not out to break any laws 🙂
>
>I guess you could counter that argument on the basis SDR is not
>broadcasting any one station specifically, its just connecting to a
>device that can receive radio frequencies and relay them via the
>internet. So the remote user connects to the device, and keys in the
>frequency they want to listen to (whether that be Police, McDonalds,
>Broadcast FM.
>
>KiwiSDR is a great example of this, they even sell Raspberry Pi SDR
>kits that you can connect up to their community page, so you can listen
>to radio networks around the world.
>
>/Dan
>
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>Welcome.
>
>Radiocommunications Act 1989 - in a nutshell, illegal to rebroadcast
>what isn't intended for you.
>
>With the legal crap out of the way, some members can probably help you
>off list with your query... :D
>
>On 12/05/2020 7:54 p.m., Dan Nitschke wrote:
>First time posting on The List!
>
>Good to see some chatter about the police on here. I am one of the few
>lucky ones who have a SDR running in the Eastern District where the
>police comms are all still analogue on UHF. They also operate on 75mhz,
>but I can't pick that up very well for some reason. My main place of
>residence (Wellington) is all digital unfortunately.
>
>Wider question - does anyone here operate SDR servers in an area where
>the police are still on analogue? I've only ever been able to listen to
>Hawkes Bay comms, would be great to listen to another area over the
>web!
>
>I've just started to get into the whole SDR scene, and pretty new to
>radio in general.
>
>Cheers
>Dan // ZL2XO
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>Subject: [TheList] Police VHF linking
>
>I live in Waimate and run a pretty big discone and im hearing all of
>Dunedin comms, chatter back and forwards to the units etc.
>
>I can also just get Christchurch Control Tower at the airport and even
>clearer off mt Mary where the repeater is for AirNZ.
>
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