Re: ORTA

["Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au>]

"avachat" <avachat@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> Keith Blake <blakex2@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Does anyone have any scanner frequencies for ORTA bus or rail, (anything
> > interesting?)
> > Does anyone have any interesting rail frequences or State Transit bus
> > frequencies please.
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> > Thanks
> > Thomas
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> >No disresprct to you KB but the last thing any rail or bus worker
> needs is for their or ORTA radio frequencies published so as
> hoax radio messages can make their work environment
> less safer than it is now.
> Avachat

No disrespect to you Avachat, but your ignorance of radio operations in this
country is astounding. There are numerous listings of frequencies and their
usage. Even the Australian Communications Authority (the radio spectrum's
governing body) will give you a listing of what frequencies are allocated to
whom.

People who have access to equipment capable of being programmed to transmit
on the abovementioned channels, would have no trouble obtaining a frequency
listing, without having to scour newsgroups to obtain it. These same people
would also know it is illegal to transmit on frequencies they are not
authorised to use, with substantial penalties applying if caught.

Radio scanners are used to listen to frequencies, they cannot transmit on
them. The WB radio frequency is 450.050Mhz. Go into Dick Smiths and ask them
for a radio that will *transmit* on this frequency (as opposed to just
receiving it). You won't get one.....

Russ.