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If you are going to do that you may as well use an old Tait or Philips radio that have a better receiver than a cruddy old XTS... can't really see the point to setting up a radio to listen to snippets of conversations- that would drive me nuts! Cheers, Richard each to their own. they do what I want...

That would be okay on a reasonably quiet site but wouldn't be much good on a busy metro site as that method doesn't "trunk track" (IOW it won't follow a talkgroup across multiple bases) so each conversation would be truncated (excuse the pun), that's why everybody always says "go buy a scanner" ins...

jaskel wrote:thanks Barry, I might stick to the 396

no worries, it comes in handy when listening to specific towers, but thats pretty much all they do.

If you want to RX the NSW GRN only via single towers and pass all talkgroups, they will work just fine(in fact, sound better then any scanner). Ive got several W3's monitoring different towers. No affiliation at all. just set it up to scan all freq's on the tower ex control channel and alt control t...

Hillsbus is complicated. Not for radio scanning though :) Hillsbus use the VHF frequency I mentioned, with Tait radios, regardless of what depot they come from. Westbus etc may be a different story, although I've never had a reason to find out. Interesting, One of the Hillsbus fleet has a couple of...

Interesting finding from the Christmas Island review a few days ago. Not sure how dual band radios will solve anything..... RADIO coverage on Christmas Island will be upgraded and a full-time emergency management officer employed in response to the December boat crash that claimed up to 50 lives. Bu...

Maybe it's time the list was hosted as one file and just a link provided ?

Any form of security has limits. An ASK and authentication are intended to limit the ability of certain people to program stolen radios and use them to access the network. My agency's radios cannot be programmed, they can't even be read without an ASK & a password- which I know has not leaked. Are ...

http://www.c4i.com/announcements/public-safety dated 11.AUG.2011 C4i was engaged by Airservices Australia to provide a national Emergency Response system for twenty airports around the country. The solution utilised the inherent distributed architecture of Alarmon, allowing assets anywhere within th...

145 - Horsley Park C 417.4625 A 415.9625 / 418.8375 / 416.4625(this channel has not been used for voice in the past 12hrs either) UniTrunker is definitely only showing 2 alternate channels - 415.9625 / 418.8375. The 3rd channel you mention doesn't appear to be a current channel, at least it hasn't ...