WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

I'm a waste of time newbie here... whats AR? is that AM? Amateur Radio :-) http://www.wia.org.au/What%20is%20Amateur%20Radio.php A friend and I are thinking about getting rid of the UHF and trying AM, I hear you can get out further, but its not as clear as UHF?. Generally speaking, that's true. How...

One small piece of information i forgot to add ... many commercial sites have movable control channels .... in Sydney the 800Mhz GPT site control channels moves daily over four different frequencies but all with the same ending eg 865.3625, 866.3625, 867.3625 and 868.3625Mhz then back to 865.3625 a...

CB Radio Class Licence from the Australian Communications and Media Authority website.

CB Radio Frequencies

http://www.prestigecom.net.au/latestnews/default.asp?section=view&id=50 These are ones that are licensed. Because of abuse, cost of licensing and maintainence, losing the site etc many repeaters appear and disappear without warning. Just because a repeater is in this or the ACMA lists, doesn't n...

Hi all, I was wondering if there is any Gov. department of some sort that monitors the repeater channels? Because I hear it is illegal to have over 5 watts, but it's quite obvious on channel 8 (Perth) that people have more than 5 watts output. ****having a whinge because I get squashed all the time...

If you want to spend the extra $100, buy a good quality amateur radio dual-band (2m/70cm) handheld antenna (or external antenna if you want to use the radio in your car) and attach it to a 72XLT. The quality of the antenna is about the biggest determinant of radio performance. I second that. Furthe...

I had a look at Prestigecom.net.au for some scanners and cordless phones, and see that although 27MHz AM CB radios are still made, there is no sign of SSB units. Doesn't anybody use these anymore? Yeah, they're still made. We're at the bottom of the 11 year solar cycle right now so the conditions a...

Hi All.

This group have some interesting radio related stuff in their web store. I haven't used them at all but it beats trying to import stuff from the states or convince Dick Smith to stock these things again.

The URL is:

http://www.emcom.com.au/store

goswa wrote: 1: clean skin

Hi goswa.

Clean skin means that the person doesn't have what we'd call a police record. They haven't ever been arrested, etc.

Picked up the tail end of a conversation on the FESA channel tonight. Rescue 65 was talking to them about landing on an oval at Margaret River for transport to a hospital. I just put a 78Mhz capable radio on the car and Heard Rescue 65 talking to 6IP going to that incident near Margaret River. They...

dazla wrote:Folks,

Lately I have heard a Tango Echo callsign a few times, what section is this from?

http://vk6hgr.echidna.id.au/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=16

godinoz wrote:I have spoken to the wwestern power guys and it seems that most of their comms are done on mobile.

I think that's a bit dangerous... mobile base stations need power too and their range is limited compared to radio.

radiohead wrote:Hi,

This is a link to the 2004-2005 Uniden Australian Scanner Frequencies List.

http://www.uniden.com.au/v3/search_page.htm

Good find radiohead! I just made this topic a sticky

I have noticed other states have what they call the GRN, this is used by all of the governments departments, do we have that here. There is also a radio channel called life line, this is a radio network between all of the essential services, does this get used. I haven't heard of it. Are you talkin...