fire season is coming up in my district and for some reason everytime i try and listen to our cfa control channel 162.2875mhz everyone just sounds all mumbled and scattered and the reception just fades in and out. i know this is not a problem with my antenna's or radio's. i dont understand how when im in melb i can hear all of the seymour area clear as a bell but in seymour all i get is this mumbled scatter. same with the ses in melb i can hear them on smr but in seymour all i get is ambo's can someone please help me due to i rely heavily on my scanner during fire season to keep my neighborhood safe and informed of any dangers.
there are rumours going round that the rural cfa has gone digital i find this to be a big myth considering i am hearing them in melb on a conventional scanner and in seymour all i hear is mumbled voices if they were digital id hear nothing at all. if anyone can help or knows freqeuncys for the ses and cfa in seymour please reply on this forum or email me at vkcpolice@hotmail.com cheers
if there digital how can i hear e\them on an analogue scanner? also why can i hear them cklear as a bell in melb on a analouge scanner but in seymour its just all mumbled scatter.
hi that the freqency i use i have a massvive 17ft 2 meter antenna on my roof. werecently had a fire here at one of my units in my block of flats. a cfa captain was running up and down thedriveway with a portable radio givng updates to vic fire why could he get perfect reception on his little hand heldyet on my base station all i get is horrid static and mumballing. ive heard of analouge radio scramballing are they using this i wonder. its just bugging meto death cause i really need to be able to hear the cfa in tbis town due to bushfires
The CFA don't currently use analog scrambling, the only thing I could think of which would have caused you issues is maybe you had some interference on your cable (electrical noise, etc) or you where slightly out on the frequency. I have a Simoco SRM9000 programmed with all of the CFA frequencies in it sitting on my office desk with a plain old 4ft antenna inside a concrete building and I get perfect signal without any issues.
problem fixed now that we have p25 now that the analogue signal is being rebroadcast on. still to this day the analouge frequency is unreadable and i hear other scanner users and even cfa personal complain about it so i know its not my end.
It could have been "deafening" your rx as he was so close , coukd be intermod from another freq or service .. grab a recording and post it up
I for one prefer the use of a commercial rx only radio for these bands .. bit harder to do that with p25 though
