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 ›
RMR Network
RMR Network to get additional sites
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 ›
Fire Rescue Victoria MMR Talkgroups & RMR Patching
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
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 ›
Victoria Police Rural & Regional Communications Goes Encrypted
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 ›
A brief look at the new Uniden SDS100 Bearcat
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 ›
Victorian Government Operational Communications Program Update & other matters
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 ›
Where are the RMR radio ID’s?
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 ›
General news, updates and other observations.
Firstly let me commence by wishing you all a Merry Christmas, I hope you haven’t had to release your belt notch out to far as you recover from your food induced comas. There has been quite a bit happening of… Read More ›
Possible changes to the MMR Network and a new customer.
It has been well over 10 years since the MMR Network was first introduced to Victoria with the initial contracts signed between the Victorian Government and Motorola in 2004. The contract called for a fully operational date of 2006, just… Read More ›
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