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I'm glad everyone takes note of my posts. Makes you wonder why you contribute to this? Cheers Nature of being a "Hobby" I guess mate. Nobody is paid to sit and update a listing apart from a civilian intelligence officer earning $56,786 with data dumps from Snowden. A Significant amount of unpaid wo...

citabria wrote:Sounds like a fantastic un-coordinated mess

Considering NXDN is now a dinosaurI would agree

DMR is the future for Tier 2 agencies. Either Tier 2 or 3........

Still some old type 2 systems around. Moto have a significant amount of spare parts available for all this gear as they buy up a lot of the equiptment for next to nothing when they upgrade systems from around the world. Considering the cost of radios these days compared to 10/15/20 years ago, you wo...

There are pro's and con's to both scenarios, if an out-of-area crew is constantly switching to the local channel/TG then they'll know what's going on around them, maybe even help out if the local cars are getting slammed? If they stay on their 'home channel' then the GRN cops the extra load of carr...

any orion updates over there ?

Well, there's that.. But given the train networks (all of them) are public government owned infrastructure, one would think that the NSW Telco's main charters would be consolidation, interoperability and cost savings for the taxpayer. There's a lovely P25 system that has head lots of money put into...

JAFO wrote:FRNSW Has about 3 Drones in trial service . . . one turned up at something I was at a month or so ago . . . how much they get used at large jobs I have no idea.

They are out there, Law might not "own" them yet but they sure bring in others that do.....

citabria wrote:Just what we need - ANOTHER format...

Whats another format ? TETRA has hundreds of users around australia. Only difference being the frequency allocation range.

If the chosen system works like it does around the world, it should perform quite well especially with that amount of coverage

A quick look at the pics on their website show XTS2500 radios...

Adapad, if you ever have an issue with receiving the GRN where signal was previously fine then has degraded and lasts more than a couple hours, you can bet 100% that it's your own gear. The network has extensive remote monitoring and down time SLA's. very rapid repairs are undertaken when flags are ...