WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hi, I'm currently in Melbourne but moving across to Perth early December. Over here as of a few days ago the entire VICPOL switched to digital as well as the Firies - Ambos to follow shortly.

Before I dispose of the scanner (although I'm into aviation so perhaps all is not totally lost yet), does anyone know of the deal in WA re: Police, Fire, Ambulance etc.?

Apologies if there have been lots of posts on this and I've missed out on any news. I'm new here (first posting) and haven't lurked as I normally would on such a forum. A brief scan of recent posts however didn't throw up anything obvious (the Melbourne equivalant is awash with 'end of scanning' posts...).

Cheers.

Well its not too hard to read these threads, but anyway here what I know:

WAPOL will start going digital very shortly, but you still have time to listen in.

Ambo's has Data Screens so you rarely here where they are going.

Aviation is a good one to listen to here, with both Jandacot and Perth being pretty busy.

Thanks for that. Yeah as soon as I posted, I had another more throrough scout over older threads and threw up one thread on digital in WA. Sod's law. Primary interest is aircraft - no idea whether I'll be able to pick up Tower from Como but at the risk of going off topic, I'll wait for replies from the appropriate group. I may just catch the tail end of the analogue stuff when I get across then.

As I understand it the WAPOL chanage over will include a fall back to the
analogue system as a backup & will also be use to comms with country cars.

What I am curious about is what freaquencies the new digital will be
transmitting on, if they need to keep the old frequencies active.

Anyone know the answer to this ?

chromii wrote: What I am curious about is what freaquencies the new digital will be
transmitting on, if they need to keep the old frequencies active.

The base TX frequencies of the new system is in the 502Mhz band.

Guys and Lady Jo ,

I wouldn't panic about digital yet....if the cars are running on Windows XP like the one I saw in D7 they probably won't work anyway!

The joys of control-alt-delete..keys.

cheers

Tom