WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

While in town,
I heard jobs being dipatched yp
GC 010
GW 010
HL 010

Any idea what type of vehicles these are

That's the base radio. I think it changed from ##100 to ##010 a few months ago.

thankyou

but cars xx100 still exist then???

Nope... no cars have the ##100 callsign - it's always been the base radio callsign.

ok, thanks for clearing that up

010 is the station's "boss" (ranking officer) at the time
100 is the radio that the other officers use whilst at the station.
Sometimes if the "boss" is busy, an officer will just reply as 010.

but 010 and 100 are both the station call signs

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thankyou

JG-103 wrote:010 is the station's "boss" (ranking officer) at the time
100 is the radio that the other officers use whilst at the station.
Sometimes if the "boss" is busy, an officer will just reply as 010.

but 010 and 100 are both the station call signs

Close

100 is what was used for a base radio when the new call signs started. It was then decided to switch to 010. People sometimes forget and use the 100 call sign.

Maybe......and I'm out on a limb here.......it will be for the new digi radios. Maybe a base will have 3 base radios and so will use call signs 010, 011, 012 as each radio will have caller ID......hence the problem keeping the 100 callsign.

Walks.

And 050 is IMU now, isn't it ?

Fastlane wrote:And 050 is IMU now, isn't it ?

Yes

Im pretty sure i have heard guys using the 012 etc format already , thanks for the insight Walks. Would a 020 be a traffic base then?

Always RX wrote:Im pretty sure i have heard guys using the 012 etc format already , thanks for the insight Walks. Would a 020 be a traffic base then?

Correct.