[TheList] Police VHF linking

Wed May 13 13:42:57 AEST 2020

Dan, and others I'd love to be contacted off the list about this also.

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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32 PM 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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> *From:* TheList <thelist-bounces at radiowiki.org.nz> on behalf of Radio
> Scanner <rs157950 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:46 PM
> *To:* thelist at radiowiki.org.nz <thelist at radiowiki.org.nz>
> *Subject:* Re: [TheList] Police VHF linking
>
> 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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