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by Admin
Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Illegal use of scanners - todays situation
Replies: 24
Views: 10996

I've had to delete some posts in this thread that were off-topic.

Please keep discussions on-topic folks, as the old saying goes, a gentleman can disagree without being disagreeable :-)
by Admin
Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:17 am
Forum: DFES/DBCA
Topic: English fire-trucks
Replies: 30
Views: 11133

Zebedee wrote: "Dial 999 or 112"

Good to see they are promoting the GSM standard number as well as their own local number.
Confusingly, it's the GSM and EU standard whereas 999 has always been the UK number and both work in the UK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-1-2
by Admin
Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:57 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Signups and your email address
Replies: 0
Views: 7374

Signups and your email address

Hi everyone. Please can everybody check that they have a working email address in their profile for the forum. I'm getting tonnes of bounce messages these days from Private Message and Topic reply notification emails. If you don't want to receive email notifications, then it's easy to switch it off ...
by Admin
Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:26 pm
Forum: WA Police Service
Topic: Body of child found in Cannington
Replies: 55
Views: 17481

gkoutlis wrote: What the hell was that all about???? :? Why would someone post something like that on here???? What's going on to our Forum aye???
Calm down gk. Take a deeep breath :-)
by Admin
Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:54 pm
Forum: General
Topic: police pursuit cars - V8?
Replies: 20
Views: 8429

police pursuit cars - V8?

Hi everyone. I'd like to see a continuation of the discussion from http://warsug.info/viewtopic.php?t=945 specifically from page 3 or so about pursuit vehicles as I personally found it a very interesting and engaging discussion. I've unlocked the original thread to allow ease of quoting from there i...
by Admin
Sun May 28, 2006 1:01 am
Forum: WA Police Service
Topic: chase on midland ch
Replies: 35
Views: 13257

Thread closed...
by Admin
Sat May 20, 2006 5:22 pm
Forum: WA Police Service
Topic: T/A's Yangebup, Jandakot
Replies: 6
Views: 2423

Gav, Worth having a sticky TA thread? Maybe those of us hearing a TA or some sort of traffic problem can announce it here for the towie base ops to monitor and any of the radio station traffic reporters, as well as the News @ Night guys etc?? Just a thought. Could be a thread for info from the scan...
by Admin
Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:59 pm
Forum: WA Police Service
Topic: Rotto Police
Replies: 11
Views: 14566

Tom wrote:Never saw VX101 whilst I was over there, but saw VX102 is a 4WD Mazda Bravo. It's pretty old 1[deleted]. It still has the old dome lights on the roof.
Again, a reminder. Police vehicle registration numbers are not appropriate to post on a public forum. THINK people!
by Admin
Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:35 pm
Forum: General Scanning
Topic: Weird Noise
Replies: 5
Views: 4670

Re: Weird noise

I only really listen to the police channels.. Are you listening right now to 468.4750? Ahh ok. Listening now but not sure if I heard the sound you mean. High pitched noises on the police channels are probably one of three things: A screetch that sounds like a telephone modem followed by a high-pitc...
by Admin
Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:21 pm
Forum: General Scanning
Topic: Weird Noise
Replies: 5
Views: 4670

I'm guessing you're talking about Selective calling (selcall). Westrail, bus companies and Chubb security use this alot. It sounds like this. When transmitted before or after every transmission It's a way that the base can know what radio has just transmitted, usually called ANI. (usually to track r...