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  • #2
    micko45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭micko45


    Yes it should work. freq says 78-512MHz (with gaps)

    I can get Fire/ambulance dispatch on below freqencies and these ranges are included.

    84.4000
    84.4375
    84.5250


  • #3
    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    thanks micko45 is this the one you have? can you buy these in Ireland. It says online hard to program


  • #4
    Storm 10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,170 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    micko45 wrote: »
    Yes it should work. freq says 78-512MHz (with gaps)

    I can get Fire/ambulance dispatch on below freqencies and these ranges are included.

    84.4000
    84.4375
    84.5250

    Are the Fire and Ambulance now operating Tetra which means you cant listen to them.


  • #5
    micko45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭micko45


    Storm 10 wrote: »
    Are the Fire and Ambulance now operating Tetra which means you cant listen to them.

    Not sure about fire, but Ambulance for kildare can still be heard on above freq, I heard them over the weekend.


  • #6
    micko45
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭micko45


    Ivan Salmon Acid wrote: »
    thanks micko45 is this the one you have? can you buy these in Ireland. It says online hard to program

    I have a uniden UBC3500XLT which can be programmed with the PC. I got it on adverts for 100€. its a good scanner but i have a discone antenna mounted 30 feet and I am not far from dublin so i pickup quite a bit on it. But most of the interesting stuff is gone digital.


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  • #7
    80j2lc5y7u6qs9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 957 ✭✭✭80j2lc5y7u6qs9


    micko45 wrote: »
    I have a uniden UBC3500XLT which can be programmed with the PC. I got it on adverts for 100€. its a good scanner but i have a discone antenna mounted 30 feet and I am not far from dublin so i pickup quite a bit on it. But most of the interesting stuff is gone digital.
    OK thanks. I will look at that one


  • #8
    humaxf1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭humaxf1


    I wouldn't hold out too much longer for DFB on VHF.

    Phibsboro station posted a tweet about all their engines being Scania now and saying goodbye to their old call-signs as they cross over to Tetra :(


  • #9
    galtee boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭galtee boy


    I retired from Cork County Fire Service last year, but before I went, we had switched over to Tetra digital radio and what a difference it made. Absolutely perfect reception, crystal clear, no blackspots like we used to have on vhf. We could talk to crews in other stations 50 miles away , like they were next door. Gardai went Tetra good few years ago. I think most ambulance gone Tetra also. --snip--


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