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No one heard of these???

Heard a radio discussion, a couple of years back. About helmets being purchased for boat crews. Helmets contained bone-conduction microphones and audio that would take submersion to a few metres. Made, I think, in NZ and based on systems issued to USMC troops. Supposedly, the mic contacted the weare...

"At this early stage it seems the almighty dollar is the driving force behind the decision."

Or the lack of it

Yes. They stopped complaining about CAD some time ago.
Maybe the "new system" was a changed internal operator procedure.
Some administrative thing.

Thanks, both!! I have heard references to the in-car repeaters a couple of times, now, so, I guess, NSW does have them. Gotta admit, though, portable comms are still crappy a lot of the time and crews, often, have to go back to cars to use car radios to be heard properly. Yes, many rural cars have C...

Getting worse....last "Traffic' transmission was very bad... sounded like altenator noise drowning everything. Message was unintelligible.
Operator instructed all cars to turn off in-car repeaters.

WTF are they?

Extenders for portables???

Quite a few "foreign" HWP cars on the N Coast at the moment. "Traffic" and "North" call-signs. A couple of them seem to have really bad audio....very "tinny" sound with lots of interference. Understandable, though, mostly. I suspect they are operating cross-band. that is, UHF radios linking into the...

Well, closure of Wagga has been announced.....
So that half was true.
Other centres "are to be examined".
Not looking good for Tamworth.

So much for decentralization.

BTW, in the past, they used "Protected Person".
"PINOP" is fairly recent.

Thanks!!!
Perfect fit.