WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Raptor wrote:Maybe Once you hear the audio from a decent quality commercial radio that is not a Uniden scanner; you will never go back to using a "scanner".

Rubbish. Any decent reciever (yes, Unidens are common, but decent) is fine.

What you suggest isn't very legal or a good idea.

Time to book in...

Okay. My very illegal radio arrived. It's an impressive unit.

But I need a license before I can even think about touching PTT. What where the contact details for Ham college?

I'll call them tomorrow morning.

Tip: You can record the audio, and hand-decode it in Audacity...

IIRC, the AES-256 is only the encryption standard used when starting and ending the transmission, the voice data is something less secure.

I may be very wrong though.

Okay. Got some great answers from the WASES facebook group.

Channels:
180, 295, 306 on High band VHF.
29 on Mid-Band VHF.

For SES, they can run any rpt channel they want.

I'll ask the facebook group for you.

Got plenty of photos to share of that one. Will get the images onto my computer once I have created archives for 2015.

Happy new year!

Indeed, I think it's been stickied somewhere, but I can't be bothered finding it... It's pretty awesome to see the amount of radio infrastructure is out there soley to give us a working telephone while moving about pretty much everywhere. I still see that you need HF radio if you are going into the ...

It works even better with a scantenna attached.

For free topo maps, head on over to this site: http://mapconnect.ga.gov.au/MapConnect/?site=geoMAP&accept_agreement=on I've printed out the Harvey region and surrounds for my Christmas getaway, useful for map & compass, but no grid lines (The map is in true north, so it can be used with a co...

Huh. Not a bad find. Extremely interesting.

Well it turns out that the state is broke so they'll be putting this one off for a while :-P Yep! WAERN is intact and working. I don't really see an operational advantage for DFES with digital for the following reasons: 1) Digital doesn't mean better comms. In fact, if something goes wrong, people ...

kinetic_skink wrote:
Bummer

Yep

Luckily DFES won't be digital for another year. You can still listen to us

Oooh! Shiny!