WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Couldn't get to the fireground but this is the smoke from quite early in the bushfire.



https://youtu.be/pl5pfYfupAw
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Mandurah 1st has reported that fire as 44 at this stage.
All crews stood down, 1st alarm grass fire in back yard.

(Not trying to steal your thunder mate, sorry)

DWER has been requested as there is asbestos in the building roof.

The SET was requested firecall I believe, but they said due to traffic conditions they will be procceding NR.

Nambeelup bushfire seems to of reignited. I'm local to the area so I have my scanner going through the fireground channels. 1702: Ambulance requested by Nambeelup control. 1838: All bombers have been released and are returning to their bases. Lost track of appliances but these are all here. Muarry C...

Bushfire at Baal street and Kookaburra Avenue in CULLACABARDEE, properties under immediate threat and air support enroute.

3rd alarm fully involved house fire at Barton Gate in Landsdale.

3rd alarm bushfire at Forrestdale Lake, 10 hectares and uncontrolled uncontained currently.

3rd alarm vehicle and structure fire at Hawkins road, Jandabup. 1 vehicle and 2 structure's are fully engulfed.

"ComCen relocation vehicle" just asked for a radio check to ComCen, haven't heard this before on the radio. Anyone know what this is about?

I've noticed, and more often than not they have issues with IRIS too and just end up using the radio.

AR number seems to be related to ambulance responses. Oscar 1 requested the AR number from a Tango and they gave the current date and, what I assume, was a CAD job number or incident number, as well as the destination of the ambulance. "Tango xx, Tango xx, Oscar 1." "Tango xx, recieving." "Tango xx,...

SurfCom may not be encrypted, but it seems like there's encrypted traffic going over the Florida repeater. Sync: +DMR mod: C4FM inlvl: 53% [slot0] slot1 Unknown burst type: 1101 Sync: +DMR mod: C4FM inlvl: 32% slot0 [slot1] MBC Sync: +DMR mod: C4FM inlvl: 21% [slot0] slot1 PI Header Sync: +DMR mod: ...

3rd alarm scrub fire on Paganoni Freeway. Air intel mobilised.

Looking to get into shortwave, so just looking for a cheap receiver to start. My budget is about $80. Ideally can receive between 2 and 20 MHz. Not picky about where it ships from. Cheers.