WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

By bandwidth do you mean spacing? 12.5khz is the standard these days I believe.

No need to know CTCSS/DSC to listen. These are only required to transmit for their programmed radios to receive the transmissions.

This post may assist you: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=315&p=1902

A bit misleading putting that link in this thread. CAD is the despatch system, nothing to do with radios.

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Works at the moment showing 94 incidents WA wide.

TE216 Commodore passing the city had a new siren, dual tone but no rumbler. Very American sounding with two wails going at the same time but differently timed, very loud.

It's a simplex channel so unless you are very close to the ground crew you won't hear them. It's a line of sight communication.

If you give a quick blip on ch8 with no one else using it does it give you a few seconds of blank noise?

How far north/south? Just a couple more examples, as some areas that far out are not covered by local 6AR radio.

Whilst things have changed a bit since the last posts in this thread it still comes down to crew and public safety. Speeding to get somewhere will only save a couple of minutes over a fair distance. Red lights still have to be approached at a speed that you can stop before moving through. Traffic th...

Have a read through some of this forum: viewforum.php?f=9

http://hamcollege.com.au is a good start.

Have you thought about getting an Amateur Radio license?

Unfortunately not.

Do you still have the old one? It might still work for the high band.

Otherwise cheapest new is something like the Uniden EZ130XLT, or up to the UBCD396XT. Lots of other models out there that's just the more common.

Yep if you are near the airport its usually ok, since the repeaters are setup to give best coverage there so enjoy!