WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

before 3:57pm today, did anyone hear the continuous key up of VK6RAP this afternoon?

It happens from time to time, usually a mic button gets accidentally stuck down.
If you have a time out timer option in your radio its a good idea to turn it on.

Yes i heard it was done on purpose they also played ringtone couple times

Damn I was hoping the feds had grabbed that idiot.

sounded like a dog barking in the backround or something didnt it?

The acma usualy finds those sorts of people in ususuly under an hour dont they?

slipknot wrote:The acma usualy finds those sorts of people in ususuly under an hour dont they?

yeah if they are in Canberra

lol

That's the third day in a row they transmitted crap at around the same time of day. Fortunately that makes it really easy for DF. Nothing on reverse in Swanbourne and signal 1 or 2 on reverse in Malaga. Hopefully it isn't somebody's bored kids getting into the shack :-]

slipknot wrote:The acma usualy finds those sorts of people in ususuly under an hour dont they?

As far as I've heard (so all this is second hand info of course), the ACMA generally don't bother "finding" people unless it's a direct threat to safety, like the twit who was keying up on the Perth Tower frequencies a while back, trying to give bogus instructions to planes. I heard they found him pretty quick-smart

ACMA will act if someone gives them the info they need - such as times, dates, locations, etc but generally don't actively "track down" people any more.

However I suspect there's a few people in the community who would happily DF someone and pass all that information on to ACMA if the situation warranted it

Just call on a fox hunt

For the record, I heard music and pre-recorded answering machine messages at around 4pm Wednesday and Thursday, and around 3pm Friday on RAP.

Last year a cordless phone was interfering with one of the Perth repeaters.
You could hear the ring tone and conversations in a foreign language.

This wasnt ring tone from a land line was different ring tones from a mobile phone being played over air on purpose.Vk6ngs

Heard again on RSR at 6:25PM Sunday night. The originating signal was barely audible here, but it was firing the repeater. Sounded like random music.