Programming new TX3440
Submitted: Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:10
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Mick23
Hi all,
I'll go with the old adage of long time browser, first time poster. I have a new TX3440 UHF, it is the one with the LCD and controls on the handpiece, very nice unit. Anyway i am about to programm some extra receive channels, and the list of frequencies i have from the QLD police hace an input and an output frequncy listed.
Am i correct in assuming the output frequency is that that is transmitted by the police unit/repeater and as such is the frequency i need to program in to my unit. Or do i have it back to front.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Mick
Reply By: Mike Harding - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:15
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:15
Providing your list refers to the _repeater_ (it almost certainly will) and _not_ hand-held radios then you do indeed listen on the output of the repeater.
Mike Harding
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Follow Up By: Mick23 - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:36
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:36
Thanks Mike, thought that was the case, but just thought it should check.
Cheers
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Reply By: Mikee5 (QLD) - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:21
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 13:21
I thought that in Qld the police radio transmissions were encrypted. At least I remember reading that they were going to as the media kept finding out what they were up to. Does anyone know for sure?
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Follow Up By: age - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 14:00
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 14:00
Mikee5
Most are now encrypted, but some sectors like Beenleigh, Browns Plains and parts of Gold and Sunshine Coasts are still on old system and can still be heard on scanner
Cheers
A
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Follow Up By: Mike Harding - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 14:02
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 14:02
I think most states have?
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A secure digital radio network to support police operations was established
in the
Brisbane metropolitan area. New secure digital radio network cells
also became operational in
Cairns,
Townsville, Mackay,
Rockhampton,
Gladstone,
Bundaberg,
Maryborough and
Toowoomba.
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Encrypted radio usually uses UHF so has a range limited to "line-of-sight" for large states, such as Qld, this means that more remote police stations will remain on HF/VHF or Sat Phone.
I suspect you'll hear very little, if any, traffic on the old analogue frequencies.
Mike Harding
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 17:06
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 17:06
most have gone to trunking
very now again you'll hear someone on the old police channels...and it aint the cops...hehehe
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 17:07
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 17:07
and remember the old channles were 25w.....not the peeeeesy 5watt max on CB
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Follow Up By: Grungle - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:38
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 19:38
We still program police channels up here in central Qld as they are still analogue. We usually do a script that covers from
Gladstone up to
Bowen and out to
Emerald and Glenden - around 25 seperate channels. Still a lot of traffic from the police which I listen to every day.
I know that the comms guys from the police have attended training on the new P25 gear but they have invested so much already in a system that still has plenty of life left that I doubt that they will switch over soon. I can definately say that no sites up here are using the new P25 gear as I attend the repeater sites to do maintenance for QFRS and QAS which share the same huts.
Regards
David
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Follow Up By: age - Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 20:04
Friday, Jul 06, 2007 at 20:04
Mikee and Mike H
Old list of frequencies on this link for QLD
Site Link
Channel 8, 25, 36 still have traffic on them. Beenleigh very active
Guess it will all change over soon
Cheers
A
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