SCANNER: Uniden UBCD396XT - 25,000Ch Digital, Handheld, "TrunkTracker IV" AU Ver - $395 Shipped

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  [Deactivated] on 01/02/2012 - 11:02

  +1

  i can get Goulburn and Wagga LAC on my pux in Syd Metro.

  pretty boring though.

  "Goulburn 15, standby for details - loose cattle on hume hwy"

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    IVI on 01/02/2012 - 11:11

    +1

    If you lived close to a -possibly- approaching Bushfire, Flood, etc. you might find more interesting (&, very likely, more timely) talk, well worth hearing.

    YMMV…

    PS This puppy is priced at the cost of a handheld [ICOM or Yaesu] handheld CB radio;
    I know which one -I'd- find more useful, at such times… :-)

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      tonyjzx on 01/02/2012 - 11:18

      isn't cops all encrypted on digital?

      I'd be surprised if they were still open channel.. on digital

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        IVI on 01/02/2012 - 11:23

        Read the deal again… I say the same thing there.

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        [Deactivated] on 01/02/2012 - 11:33

        +2

        not regional, i was listening to them this morning

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        IVI on 01/02/2012 - 20:44

        I guess the logic is something like this:

        • in places where police have -reliable- comms, using the state's -costly- trunked-radio network (a.k.a. gov't radio n/w), their voice comms are very likely encrypted

        • in other places, it depends on what their "conventional" (channel- rather than talkgroup-based) radios & repeaters are capable of.

        In small regional centres, folks can almost see what & where police are doing tasks, so (one could wonder) why bother to encrypt (ie, extend the gov't radio networks out to the small region)

        Of course, for safety & to catch more suspects [in the act], they "should" encrypt, even before the very costly trunked network comes to town, but it's usually either cost or politics that decides what they get… :-/

        It's just like when & where AU will get Electric Vehicles… Israel, Denmark & maybe Hawaii may get that pleasure & honour before AU… ;-/

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  [Deactivated] on 01/02/2012 - 12:49

  +2

  Can anybody remember the early days of analogue mobile phones when you could here one half of a conversation on a scanner? Ahh, disjointed memories…

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    tonyjzx on 01/02/2012 - 14:34

    +1

    it used to be that a $75 analog scanner would pick up most of the metro cop chatter

    you'd just leave it running at home doing random scans and you'd LOL at the stuff like cops arresting drunk naked guys or chasing WRX's on parra rd. etc.

    those were the days

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      IVI on 01/02/2012 - 20:51

      Yes, then came trunked systems… pushing up the costs of useful scanners up to ~ $600 (when first introduced).

      Even those scanners will be useless for trunked gov't n/w's

      They seem to be adding (open, not yet encrypted) [APCO-25] digital voice to their comms option set.

      Then you'll -need- a sscanner like this one, w/ APCO-25 built-in.

      That's what makes this a real deal… It's -slightly- future ready… until yet another layer of complexity it added, to keep folks isolated from the emergency services, which they pay for.

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  sash213 on 01/02/2012 - 13:37

  +1

  They won't post to po boxes and they may be working for the CIA, I gotta neg this deal!!

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    IVI on 01/02/2012 - 20:55

    Try Perth-based Prestige Comms ($4 cheaper on eBay, but they use an obscure vendor name there…); but they were only showing a few items left on eBay.

    Maybe Uniden only allocate a limited number at low intro prices… then - after only "early adopters" can hear (some) "first responders" & demand goes up - prices will float back up, near the Au$ 499 RRP (on Uniden's spec page for this radio).

    ;-)

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  rehab on 01/02/2012 - 13:52

  Ambos are now digitally encrypted too in Sydney

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  morpheu on 01/02/2012 - 15:12

  +1

  i still have a 200ch scanner that picked up cops as well as analog mobiles, that was before they started blocking out the phone bands, ahh the fun i had….

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  Regie69 on 01/02/2012 - 22:32

  AUS scanner app for iPhone is free. Picks up police, fire,and Ambos australia and worldwide. Uses the Internet. Lots of police don't use digital as the coverage isn't great . Logan and caboolture are good to listen too. Use it all the time