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Bomber 134 and Bomber 165 doing practice runs at Richmond today. They where using 130.550Mhz for comms between aircraft, same as last year.

Regards

Kev

The majority of the private bus company's in Sydney use the Orion DMR Trunking network. There are also a few on the Vertel NXDN network.

Regards

Kev

Hi all, As the title suggests I'm interested in the who has the oldest scanner in daily use? It has to work and its used any time you are in your shack (in my case daily). In my case i have some pretty old scanners most which have varying faults and they are tucked away in the cupboard, but on the s...

Kev - in all your years of experience and training, can you recall an STC (or a CASA authorised mod document) being required for a non airband radio being installed in a civil aircraft? Any modification to a "VH" registered aircraft requires the modification design to be carried out by a suitable q...

Are you sure they were planes ? Hot air ballon companies have been known to use UHF CB on occasion Yes, they where defiantly aircraft, as a holder of a Private Pilots Licence and also a retired Licensed Aircraft Maintenace Engineer I’m Very confident by the nature of the conversation that they wher...

Interesting catch today, heard two aircraft flying together talking between themselves on Ch24 UHF CB. They where both using a CTCSS tone (141.3) which would be a good idea as at altitude (i heard them say at one stage they where at 4800ft) you would hear a lot of other traffic on the channel. Regar...

Yes, I liked very much having my local freq in a scanner that I carried everywhere living in the bush to alert me to local fire incidents, but now that freq is constant traffic and it’s not so useful because the constant traffic makes you tune out.

Regards

Kev

As far as I know Mike, the RFS have been linking (combining) there different areas both PMR and GRN to a central dispatch. I only hear Hawkesbury fire comm now when there is a big incident or multiple activities across different districts that makes it too busy and they de link and revert to local f...

Hi all, Interested on thoughts on the programming of non trunked nxdn freq in both the TRX-1 and the UBCD436-PT. I have 30 individual NXDN simplex freq that I am trying to program. In the TRX-1 you can program individual freq in conventional (non trunked ) mode and then set the digital mode, in this...

Found it

https://uniden.com.au/product/scanner-upgrade/