The News Room is here to bring you up to date with any news on the Scanning front in Victoria.
If you are able to add anything, please e-mail me. Cheers, Matthew

November 2001: Just incase not everyone here monitors the aus.radio.scanner newsgroup - there is talk about Uniden having a Digital Capable Scanner available for release within 12 months :-)

July 2001: SMR frequency reshuffle has taken place in regard to some repeater sites... I would like to hear from anyone with any different SMR Police frequencies heard in their area.   

 Some more Police "stuff", I have had reports that Police SMR radios that are fitted in their vehicles are able to function as a repeater for portable units... sounds like a good idea to me, we all know how scratchy they can be sometimes.  Especially when they are shielded from the repeater location. - copied from Information

March 2001: Nothing To Report Of

January 2001:

December 11th: Sounds to be something wrong with the voice quality coming out of: 469.325MHz channel 60.
Have had reports of good ducting of late - have heard that Victoria Police UHF 468.175MHz has been heard as far west as Ararat. - any further reports?

October 20th: Nothing to report of.

October 1st: Mt. Warrenheip is back on air, I have also had reports that there is a new SMR Police frequency which blasts into Ballarat, it is 163.6125MHz

Chubb and MDT's, recently while in Melbourne I noticed a Chubb Security van, with something which looked like a Motorola MDT installed. Is anyone able to confirm any voice frequencies which are used by Chubb, or provide any information on the MDT's.
I have a list of frequencies which were sent to me some time ago, but I have not been able to confirm these frequencies. Click Here To View Them *One frequency confirmed in the City - 487.775

September 2nd: I have had reports that the Mt. Warrenheip M-District (VKC Ballarat) repeater has been turned off. It might be due to interference being caused by other SMR frequencies from the Horsham area. Telstra & DNRE have been heard on Victoria Police allocated frequencies in this area. I am interested in any further information if you are able to help, please e-mail me.

Some more Police "stuff", I have had reports that Police SMR radios that are fitted in their vehicles are able to function as a repeater for portable units... sounds like a good idea to me, we all know how scratchy they can be sometimes.  Especially when they are shielded from the repeater location. - If anyone has any further info on this please let me know.

 Transport 239 is possibly a transport truck, used by the stolen car squad.

FRU units are force responce units, can be heard conducting seaches etc.

Erickson Helitanker kept at Essendon Airport
Callsign is Eric 44 or sometimes Erickson 44
And is fitted out with all the

The CFA are no longer using 131.4500MHz as their primary air - air frequency.
They are now using:
132.5500 as well as 135.5500, 128.9000, 126.4000
And the NRE (DNRE) - are also said to be using:
The NRE are using 132.5500, 135.5500, 128.9000 , 119.1000