<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm only taking a tentative guess at 300 MHz.<br></div>Two reasons - one based on the length of the antenna - it's slightly longer than a 450 MHz vertical whip<br></div>and appears to be about 1/4 wavelength at 300 megs.<br></div>Secondly, it would not be unreasonable for the government to use frequencies in a band that was fairly<br></div>empty (I think I remember reading that the military have some channels in this region).<br></div>I may be wildly off in my theory, hence why I threw it out there for anyone else who may have<br></div>insider knowledge.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thelist-request@radiowiki.org.nz" target="_blank">thelist-request@radiowiki.org.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send TheList mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:57:00 +1300<br>
From: Mark Foster <<a href="mailto:blakjak@gmail.com">blakjak@gmail.com</a>><br>
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How do you figure 300Mhz? The length could be tuned for some other<br>
harmonic? (I've not heard of spectrum at 300Mhz being used for this sort of<br>
purpose)<br>
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Radio Solutions <<br>
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> RSM withhold a lot of information from SMART.<br>
> No Police operational frequencies are listed, nor are<br>
> Government/Diplomatic or some military frequencies.<br>
> From a recent search I know that some Fire frequencies don't show up,<br>
> these may be ones which are shared with Police.<br>
> Additionally, many Fire frequencies seem to be held by TeamTalk, rather<br>
> than Fire themselves.<br>
> This suggests that TT lease them (and the infrastructure) to Fire.<br>
><br>
> On a related note, if you look at the ministerial limos, they all sport a<br>
> small whip antenna the length of which suggests it is for somewhere around<br>
> the 300 MHz region.<br>
> With no info available on SMART, does anyone have any inside knowledge on<br>
> what frequency/radios/platform they use?<br>
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Area 22 is South Canterbury.<br>
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Shane Vickers <<a href="mailto:senavick2@gmail.com">senavick2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ESC band in this topic, The original poster mentioned Area 22. Can I<br>
> confirm where this is? No point getting excited if they are rolling out in<br>
> Wellington!<br>
> Auckland is using F Band high to assist with skip issues from Aussie many<br>
> moons ago..<br>
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> I am assuming Auckland is Area 22 as they have UHF systems in play.. I<br>
> am could be so wrong.....<br>
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> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Mike Bailey <<a href="mailto:tahiini@gmail.com">tahiini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> My apologies - no regular operational channels. Yes some HF and airband<br>
>> stuff is listed, but good on ya if you've heard anything operational on<br>
>> it... ever.<br>
>><br>
>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 at 09:36 Chris H <<a href="mailto:radiowiki@archnetnz.com">radiowiki@archnetnz.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> When you say no police frequencies at all I beg to differ on that<br>
>>> statement:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Here is just one search I did for Police - like page 2 of 5 or<br>
>>> something.<br>
>>> Previous Next<br>
>>> Licence ID [image: Descending] Licence No [image: Descending] Licensee [image:<br>
>>> Descending] Channel [image: Descending] Ref.Freq. (MHz) [image:<br>
>>> Descending] Location [image: Descending] Grid Reference [image:<br>
>>> Descending] Licence Type [image: Descending] Status<br>
>>> 19203 96116 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 TAURANGA POLICE STATION BD37<br>
>>> 795250 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 23895 97565 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 MT CARGILL CE17 101239 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 23895 97565 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 MT CARGILL CE17 101239 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 24086 125062 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 SUGARLOAF BX24 717721 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 28430 92397 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 NEW PLYMOUTH POLICE<br>
>>> STATION BH29 927760 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 28430 92397 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX5 118.100000 NEW PLYMOUTH POLICE<br>
>>> STATION BH29 927760 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 28430 92397 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 NEW PLYMOUTH POLICE<br>
>>> STATION BH29 927760 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 28430 92397 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX41 119.000000 NEW PLYMOUTH POLICE<br>
>>> STATION BH29 927760 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 29066 92399 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 STRATFORD POLICE STATION BJ30<br>
>>> 105448 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 29066 92399 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 STRATFORD POLICE STATION BJ30<br>
>>> 105448 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 29066 92399 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX5 118.100000 STRATFORD POLICE STATION BJ30<br>
>>> 105448 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 29066 92399 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX41 119.000000 STRATFORD POLICE STATION BJ30<br>
>>> 105448 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 30121 126153 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 MAUNU MT AX30 113444 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 30121 126153 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 MAUNU MT AX30 113444 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 31640 92401 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 HAWERA POLICE STATION BK30<br>
>>> 103172 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 31640 92401 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX45 119.100000 HAWERA POLICE STATION BK30<br>
>>> 103172 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 31640 92401 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX5 118.100000 HAWERA POLICE STATION BK30<br>
>>> 103172 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 31640 92401 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ACX41 119.000000 HAWERA POLICE STATION BK30<br>
>>> 103172 Aero Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 32224 135095 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 PAPAROA BT19 636042 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> 32311 97621 NEW ZEALAND POLICE ARX52 131.300000 AUCKLAND BA32 569204 Aero<br>
>>> Base (Off Route) Current<br>
>>> Previous Next<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 23/11/2017 09:07 AM, Mike Bailey wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> RSM work in mysterious ways. You'll notice they don't list any Police<br>
>>> frequencies at all. I wonder if this falls under the same sort of category<br>
>>> - that its RSM approved (lets face it, Fire wouldn't go rogue on<br>
>>> frequencies), and its just not published for privacy and security of<br>
>>> communications?<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 at 08:57 Grant Carroll <<a href="mailto:grant.carroll@xtra.co.nz">grant.carroll@xtra.co.nz</a>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Hi all,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm a bit confused as well.!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On the RSM website the frequencies assigned to Fire and Emergency New<br>
>>>> Zealand between 492.21875MHz and 497.19375MHz are shown as "Land Mobile -<br>
>>>> mobile transmit" and the repeater frequencies don't start until 498.800MHz.<br>
>>>> So how are the lower frequencies being used as "portable frequencies" for<br>
>>>> incident ground communications?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Cheers.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Grunter1.<br>
>>>><br>
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