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Brisbane itself is encrypted, but you can hear analogue channels on the Sunshine Coast etc pretty easily from the suburbs.

And now they've got him.

POLAIR and VICPOL helicopters are after him. There's been a whole bunch of sightings just now too.

http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/news/loc ... 43413.aspx

Cops have this chap holed up in a pine forest near the NSW/Vic border.

On Sierra right now. Pretty much everyone from Queanbeyan and to the border are down there.

The interop spiel originates from the radio manufacturers, rather than the agencies. It's what you get when they apply the same sales pitch here as they do in the USA. Direct radio interoperability is necessary in the USA because of the way they work over there, where you have heaps of relatively sm...

"6.25e" (6.25KHz equivalency, or 1 talk path per 6.25KHz of spectrum) is "strongly encouraged" right now, and will be the end of analogue FM on the land mobile bands in the United States when it eventually becomes mandatory.

It's a bit unfair to make that call without actually knowing what they were already running...

I'm still stuck to figure out which repeater is more fun to listen to: SYD01 or VHQ07 Brisbane.

Found another one. PHQ: Police Headquarters – Avery Building They moved from the Avery Building on College St to Parramatta in 2004. Sure does look like someone at NSWPF grabbed some corporate dictionary thing off an old intranet page, got the OK for media release and handed it straight to Ten ;)

Some of the stuff they gave Channel 10 is a bit old. SAC-PAV hasn't existed for almost a decade, the National Counter Terrorism Committee (NCTC) replaced it around 2002. Both are senior level forums anyway (as in, Commonwealth SES band 1 / deputy commissioner / equivalent), so the chances of either ...