Gold Coast emergency services going digital?

[moose]

i have been looking at buying a scanner but a friend has told me that gold coast emergency services are using digital now?

The digital scanners are still quite expensive!

[bodyguard]

Not sure if they are going digital, but if they did, there is NOT a digital scanner that can decode digital encryption or there never will be in the foreseeable future

BTW welcome to our humble home

[Stretch]

BG and moose,

There is a difference between Digital and Digitally Encrypted

Digital we can still listen to you just need a digital scanner (Uniden has a very nice one) available.

Digitally Encrypted you CANNOT listen to anything using this technology and never will be.

Mitch

[rochedalescan]

At the momement Goldcoast are not Digital or encrypted however there has been talk that in the future the whole of QLD will be encrypted.
For now a cheapie analogue scanner will do the job fine and I dont think they will be going encrypted for a while.

Cheers Shane

And welcome to the forums

[Daniel]

QPS wont go digital anywhere else for a while! There are no plans at the moment...the current plans are too upgrade CAD and IMS and get MDTs.

[alinco21]

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[Stretch]

i have been looking at buying a scanner but a friend has told me that gold coast emergency services are using digital now?

The digital scanners are still quite expensive!

BUT there are 3 QPS digital channels that are on the Coast and can be used if required.

Would the SERT use them???

[Daniel]

SERT have their own digitally encrypted channels....possibly if they want to liase with other units. I am assuming they use these digitally encrypted channels when the GD's are at a siege and they want too talk to each other as some cars are equiped with the motorola mobile radio (the digitally encrypted radio).

Maybe in the future they might also use these channels for schoolies.

[Stretch]

Why bother with Schoolies though???

[Daniel]

SERT and PSRT go down and they dont like too be heard over the radio...schoolies do hoon around like a bunch of idiots and some of them do have scanners. It's ashame that they act like a bunch of hooligans.

[Stretch]

PSRT???

Something Special Response Team???

[Daniel]

PSRT=Public Service Response Team

In other words the Riot Squad. Might hear them in Tango 450 based at Oxley though and they only go into districts when it's busy.

[Comint]

PSRT=Public Service Response Team

In other words the Riot Squad. Might hear them in Tango 450 based at Oxley though and they only go into districts when it's busy.

Public Safety Response Team.

http://www.police.qld.gov.au/Resources/ ... ments/PSRT Flyer.pdf

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Comint

[Stretch]

Thanks guys

[alinco21]

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[geoffro316]

QPS on the Gold Coast actually switched all their radios over to digital about a year ago. All handhelds and mobiles are ready to go. All someone needs to do is flick the switch which could be tomorrow or in 10 years time! They havent been given an official timeframe yet, but they are ready to go. Thats why they are already using simplex digital channels for some special operations - coz their radios are all digital capable now.

The same with the NSW Fire Brigades. All our radios have been re-fitted and now contain all digital channels along with conventional and Trunking groups. Just waiting for someone to give the order to change the channel to digital, which again could be tomorrow or in 10 years time!!

I assisted the QPS in a traffic op up in Caboolture a couple of years ago (I let them use my balcony - I even supplied beer bottles filled with water for them to drink - like we were having a party on my balcony, was pretty funny. Apparently water in beer bottles dont taste so good! At least I was drinking the real thing!) and the guys were showing me their new Motorola portables (same as the ones we use with the NSWFB). Even though Caboolture is still a conventional channel area, they were using a digital simplex channel beacuse a lot of the hoons had scanners in their cars. It worked really well! They impounded 10 vehicles that night! The guys were really happy with the digital encryption!

[SunnybankScan]

I was down the Coast last weekend, I saw most of them still using the old GP338's

[geoffro316]

Hmmm. Interesting. I've seen most of them using XTS 3000's (or similar). I'm going off info that I got from a couple of mates. One is a copper and the other works at comms at Broadbeach. They both said QPS on the coast was ready to flick the switch, just a matter of when??? Both of them also told me that new radios had been installed on the coast. Maybe they are still using old radios as backups or something??? I know the last few times I took any notice of the portable radios being used by the QPS they were the newer XTS models.

[SunnybankScan]

Yeah, they might just be using them for the time being, and are ready to switch at anytime.

[alinco21]

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