[TheList] Callsign

Mon May 18 16:32:36 AEST 2020

The stubby aerials you're referring to are for the crossband link donor radios.  If it has two UHFs, it'll also have a VHF quaterwave (500ish long) for the P25 radio and an ESA (1m long) for the analog radio

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On 18 May 2020 4:38:25 pm NZST, Grant Carroll <grant.carroll at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Just to confirm the callsigns you were hearing on the Dunedin channels
>when they were linked to the Canterbury Rural analogue channels last
>week were AvSec 3 and AvSec4 - Aviation Security Service playing at
>being police because they have little to do at the airports.
>
>As regards the digital district vehicles going in to an analogue
>district I think you will find most vehicles are fitted with analogue
>radios as well as digital and there is a switch on the console to go
>between them. If you look at the vehicles in a digital district most
>have stubby (digital) aerials and a longer analogue VHF aerial and
>similarly some vehicles in analogue districts also have digital
>aerials.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Grunter1.
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