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• AOR AR7400 Air-band Receiver

  By VicRadio Zone on 8 Sep, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  AOR displayed a prototype receiver at a recent Ham Fair event, nothing new there you might say and you’d be right given companies do this all the time. The rather exciting aspect of this proposed unit however is it is… Read More ›

• Upgraded Unication G5 available from Unicom in Victoria

  By VicRadio Zone on 10 Jun, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  For a few years now those who frequent Radio Reference will have noted numerous mentions of an alternative piece of kit to enable the monitoring of P25 systems. Many of those posts rave about the ability of said piece of… Read More ›

• Australia, the Uniden USDS100 is set for launch!

  By VicRadio Zone on 29 Nov, 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  In the coming days Uniden Australia is set to launch a local variant of the Uniden America SDS100 which was announced around March 2018 and released around June 2018 to the US and Canadian markets. You can read our initial… Read More ›

• Victoria Police Rural & Regional Communications Goes Encrypted

  By VicRadio Zone on 21 Nov, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Victoria Police rural communications have now successfully migrated to encrypted communications on the Regional Mobile Radio (RMR) Network as of Tuesday 20th November, 2018. For those still not aware the RMR Network is a VHF P25 trunk system interlaced with… Read More ›

• Uniden Australia Scanner Upgrade Program

  By VicRadio Zone on 17 Aug, 2018 • ( 13 )

  

  Uniden Australia have officially launched their Scanner Upgrade project for the UBCD436-PT and UBCD536-PT series of scanners. A few weeks ago an upgrade site appeared for a brief period of time before being removed. There were a few lucky folks… Read More ›

• A brief look at the new Uniden SDS100 Bearcat

  By VicRadio Zone on 28 Jul, 2018 • ( 8 )

  

  So a few weeks ago being the impatient sort of chap I am I purchased one of the new Uniden SDS100 Bearcat scanners. Now I’m going to tempt fate a little bit here, even though I have a sneaking and… Read More ›

• The surprise Uniden package, that is not a surprise.

  By VicRadio Zone on 22 Mar, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Well there you go! A few months ago a popular scanner supplier and its associated web site Universal Radio based in the United States posted a page with a tantalising photo of the then purported Uniden SDS100 Bearcar. Scanner and… Read More ›

• Victorian Government Operational Communications Program Update & other matters

  By VicRadio Zone on 7 Sep, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  Hi All, It’s been far too long since our last article, but that’s what happens when you have work, a wife and kids to consider. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s had to contend with all of the… Read More ›

• Avalon Airshow 2017

  By VicRadio Zone on 19 Feb, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Once again the skies over Victoria are about to come alive and get a little bit louder as we experience the excitement of Avalon 2017. The Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition are two concurrent events; an exhibition… Read More ›

• Where are the RMR radio ID’s?

  By VicRadio Zone on 7 Jan, 2017 • ( 10 )

  Morning All, Well it seems many are missing having access to the RMR Network RiD’s and I’ve received many messages asking for them. Originally I intended on having them all on one page, like I used to for the MMR… Read More ›