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• Fire Rescue Victoria to commence new portable radio trials.

  By VicRadio Zone on 28 Jul, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In mid June 2021, June 15th to be precise, we heard a whisper that Fire Rescue Victoria (formally Metropolitan Fire Brigade) may have been having a ‘play’ with a portable radio that was not from its usual primary supplier, that… Read More ›

• The ‘Australian Scanning Report’ Podcast is coming!

  By VicRadio Zone on 16 Mar, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Long time scanning enthusiasts will be more than familiar with the name Russell Bryant within our community. Russell, who has authored several books, was a long time contributor to various scanning and communications related publications over the decades and has… Read More ›

• Uniden Discovery feature & Trunking Systems

  By VicRadio Zone on 24 Jan, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy New Year to you all. Just a quick bit of advice for those curious about using the feature in the article name. For those of you who use the Uniden SDS series, its predecessor the x36 series and the… Read More ›

• RMR Network to get additional sites

  By VicRadio Zone on 21 Oct, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Over recent months Telstra and interested stakeholders within the Victorian Government have been addressing coverage issues in some areas of the RMR Networks footprint. It is believed Telstra put forward a proposal for some additional sites and has also proposed… Read More ›

• A better understanding of TIII networks for DSDPlus Fastlane users

  By VicRadio Zone on 31 Jul, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Greetings once again to all during what is undoubtedly both interesting and frustrating times. As many of you may be aware in recent years the use of Software Defined Radio (SDR) has increased in popularity. The use of SDR by… Read More ›

• Fire Rescue Victoria MMR Talkgroups & RMR Patching

  By VicRadio Zone on 30 Jun, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Morning All, As of 1st July, 2020 Fire Rescue Victoria comes alive, officially that is. In one of our previous articles we touched on some of the expected changes that would be heard with appliance callsigns. One of the other… Read More ›

• MMR / RMR Network – New call sign allocations for FRV

  By VicRadio Zone on 5 Jun, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  Yesterday we posted about the upcoming reform for the MFB and CFA Integrated Stations and the new Fire Rescue Victoria entity. For those you who missed the post you can read it here: MMR Network – The MFB, CFA &… Read More ›

• MMR Network – The MFB, CFA and new Fire Rescue Victoria.

  By VicRadio Zone on 4 Jun, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  With 1st July 2020 only weeks away the transition of what has traditionally been stations operating under the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) entity and those from the Country Fire Authority (CFA) Integrated Stations will operate under a new combined entity… Read More ›

• ProScan & the Uniden UBCD536-PT connection, step by step.

  By VicRadio Zone on 27 Apr, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Following on from our previous post where we mentioned and provided some information how forum member ‘Xplorer’ was able to successfully connect his Uniden UBCD536-PT to work with ProScan, we now offer the subsequent images to assist with his provided… Read More ›

• ProScan and the Uniden 436-PT / 536-PT series scanners.

  By VicRadio Zone on 27 Apr, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Many long time users of the Uniden Australia local release UBCD436-PT and UBCD536-PT series of scanners have long lamented that one of the greatest pieces of software seemed incompatible with their scanners. For some time they’ve been frustrated that ProScan… Read More ›