WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Thanks to whoever put this up, I've been listening for a while and although it has been a little quiet (expected for a tuesday morning I guess) , the sound quality is good and its nice to hear jobs being called the old fashioned way again. Cheers!

Bugger.. quiet weekend night at home for a change... I was hoping the stream might be up. Oh well I'll tune into the Hunter region (NSW) stream instead, its quite interesting listening some nights.

Excellent stuff Millsy! You should be proud.

Not a sighting I know, just a point of interest ..and a few days late. On Saturday night I heard Polair 61 call 6AR on the radio to direct firies to a deliberately lit fire in bush near some community centre (didn't catch the suburb). I thought it was good to hear the services sharing resources like...

richard omeara wrote:Any one know what the flash blue helicopter flying around Perth lattley is?

Possibly you are referring to VH-VGG a Bell 430. Its more black than blue though so i am just guessing its this one.

Its timing out for me...so i guess its off

If I understand your question I think you are asking what does simplex mean? Well in my basic understanding of it is that the guys can use thier radios two ways with one of those ways (or modes) being simplex. This means that each radio is only transmitting and receiving with the radios around it, w...

Yes its really good. There have been a couple of obviously distant stations that have been a little hashy but the local stuff is good and the stream is nice and stable.

Listening in this afternoon Wayne.... Sounds good Thanks for giving us something a bit different to listen to.
Cheers

My comment was certainly not intended to belittle you Wayne, I am sorry you took it that way. The wording of your post led me to believe you were posing a question and I was just attempting to provide an answer. I hope you will keep on posting.

Possibly referring to echelon as the positioning of an aircraft in a formation flight. I think echelon left or right refers to the position diagonally to the rear of the lead aircraft. The pilots among us will probably have a better explaination.

ahhh but on some lines such as the Midland there's also other trains including Freight trains, or the Prospector, Cathay Pacific etc. that use the line and do not get announced. admittedly the freight trains for the most part peel off around Woodbridge station, but the others continue through to Ea...

Voodoo's on 126.2 this morning

These guys can be heard on Wilson company frequency 489.4000MHz