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Talking to a cop the other day he reckons Dunedin/Otago won't being going digital till after the world cup.<br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: suckerpunchnz@hotmail.com<br>To: thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br>Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:03:01 +1200<br>Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital<br><br>
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Same here.<div>I'm in Auckland, Police have gone digital too.</div><div><br></div><div>The cost for Fire to take over the Police repeaters maybe far cheaper then re-equipping all their trucks with new radios and re-developing the technology behind their K code transmission units.</div><div><br></div><div>After all, what do Fire have to gain by going Digital?</div><div><br><br>> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:54 +1200<br>> From: kiwi56@paradise.net.nz<br>> To: thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital<br>> <br>> Funny how both my son and neighbour work in the hutt valley which is <br>> already digital as far as the cops are concerned.<br>> As for waiarapa they certainly have not gone digital as I just heard <br>> carterton and ngawi responding to a fire over there this morning so not <br>> sure where that information is coming from that they must have gone <br>> digital because they are obviously wrong.<br>> Guess we will just have to wait and see what happens.<br>> <br>> On 5/17/2011 12:47 PM, Mike Barnes (ZL3TMB) wrote:<br>> > In areas where police have gone digital there will be pressure on fire to go<br>> > digital.<br>> > As we know they currently share the police repeaters, this is all good till<br>> > the police decommission their ESA band repeaters affecting rural fire.<br>> > > From what I've heard fire won't be encrypted, so a P25 scanner will work,<br>> > but a lot of water to under the bridge yet.<br>> ><br>> > So it makes sense that parts of the country know nothing about it, their<br>> > police are still analogue.<br>> ><br>> > As Ambo is not currently government funded, they have little/nothing to gain<br>> > by going digital, they are already on ESB band which works well for them.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers<br>> > Mike<br>> ><br>> > -----Original Message-----<br>> > From: thelist-bounces@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> > [mailto:thelist-bounces@radiowiki.org.nz] On Behalf Of Geoff<br>> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2011 8:43 a.m.<br>> > To: glennmc@orcon.net.nz; thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> > Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital<br>> ><br>> > not sure where you are but I get mas cart and featherston etc regularly<br>> > here in the hutt valley on 75.9625 and was talking to my son and my<br>> > neighbour who are both fire crews and they know nothing about digital<br>> > happening in the very near future.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 5/16/2011 10:30 PM, Glenn McAllister wrote:<br>> >> Wairarapa seems to be all digital. Haven't heard analog for months. Ambo<br>> >> still at least partially analog.<br>> >><br>> >>> Have they finished the trail in Wellington yet?<br>> >>><br>> >>> From: suckerpunchnz@hotmail.com<br>> >>> To: thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:25:53 +1200<br>> >>> Subject: Re: [TheList] Fire going digital<br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>> I've heard that Fire won't be going digital, due to its big expense,<br>> > which<br>> >>> they probably can't afford now due to the Christchurch Earthquake.The big<br>> >>> expense is caused by the fact that their status code transmission units<br>> >>> will need to be totally custom redesigned and rebuilt.<br>> >>><br>> >>> From: zl3tpq@hotmail.com<br>> >>> To: thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:27:25 +0000<br>> >>> Subject: Re: [TheList] Wellington Fire going digital<br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>> Scott,<br>> >>> I'd be pretty much happy with the release of a UBCD996XT set that was<br>> >>> meant to work down here.<br>> >>> When you think about it, if you are going to listen to things like HF<br>> >>> you'd buy something like an AR-5000 or whatever.<br>> >>><br>> >>> The thing that tends to annoy me about modern scanning recievers made by<br>> >>> Uniden is the fact that they don't have a rotary tuning control, like say<br>> >>> the UBC 9000XLT did.<br>> >>> You could tune through the frequencies, stop where you liked and save<br>> > that<br>> >>> frequency.<br>> >>><br>> >>> Sure trunking is the thing these days, but why does everything have to be<br>> >>> made so complicated?<br>> >>> I'm not some sort of an idiot that can't use this sort of thing, but why<br>> >>> aren't things kept simple?<br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>> If the 996 was an option here, I'd like it to have the option of a blue<br>> >>> LED display, that would be cool.<br>> >>><br>> >>> Oddly enough guys,<br>> >>> Even though it may come to pass that the Fire Service are going to go<br>> >>> digital with AES, it doesn't bother me, look, when they shut down all of<br>> >>> the analouge TV frequencies over the next few years<br>> >>> there is going to have to be (as far as frequency auctions go) a new user<br>> >>> in them parts of the spectrum, no Government with the promise of nice<br>> > cash<br>> >>> is going to want to leave them areas<br>> >>> laid bare and no-one using them.<br>> >>><br>> >>> I would tend to think we are just like Ham operators in our listening, if<br>> >>> one thing doesn't suit us, we move on to the next big thing.<br>> >>><br>> >>> That is how it should be.<br>> >>><br>> >>> Mike T.<br>> >>><br>> >>><br>> >>> _______________________________________________<br>> >>> TheList mailing list<br>> >>> TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>><br>> >>> _______________________________________________<br>> >>> TheList mailing list<br>> >>> TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> _______________________________________________<br>> >>> TheList mailing list<br>> >>> TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>> http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br>> >>><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TheList mailing list<br>> > TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> > http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > TheList mailing list<br>> > TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> > http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br>> ><br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> TheList mailing list<br>> TheList@radiowiki.org.nz<br>> http://radiowiki.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/thelist_radiowiki.org.nz<br></div>
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