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Picking up melbourne police on channel 39 uhf (477.3750 mhz).It very clear.Full 6 bars on the scanner.Also picking them up on the same channel on the uhf cb aswell.
It's channel 36 on the the police freqs (468.7250 mhz)

Are you picking them up now?

What you've probably witnessed there is a phenomenom called 'ducting'. There's a very brief description at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_ducting

I remember watching GWN on channel 8 from Greenwood when I was a kid. Well done stevesperformance!

That still doesn't really explain why he heard it on a CB channel though...

Did'nt last long.Started about 6.00pm and stopped about 7.30pm.

It's unusual for this sort of propogation to last for extended periods of time. I'd say an hour and a half was very good, especially for UHF!

Why would the police be on a CB channel?

Bonez wrote:Why would the police be on a CB channel?

Prolly someone playing silly buggers playing an Internet stream.

Cross-country UHF ducting, although possible, would be extrodinarily rare.

That's exactly what crossed my mind, which is part of the reason I was asking "Even if it was ducting, why would it be on a CB frequency?"

I agree.I think it was someone close playing silly bugger's and playing the melbourne stream from the net.If just seem it clear.

I agree.I think it was someone close playing silly bugger's and playing the melbourne stream from the net.If just seem it clear.