TETRA Detectors

[Red 4]

[quote=HantsRat]

Target blue eye is £899 without the weird extender thing.

[quote].

Is that the Target Blue Eye VCD SI SF Advanced Dipole Bumper Mounted Model ?

Or are they reserved for C63 AMG V8 Bi-Turbo MCT 7 Speed Racestart, Ridecontrol, ABS, EBD, TC, DRL, EFI, DCP, ABC, T WAT, S owners ?

Edited by Red 4 on Thursday 1st March 14:13

[ghe13rte]

Red 4 said:

HantsRat said:

Target blue eye is £899 without the weird extender thing.

[quote].

Is that the Target Blue Eye VCD SI SF Advanced Dipole Bumper Mounted Model ?

Or are they reserved for C63 AMG V8 Bi-Turbo MCT 7 Speed Racestart, Ridecontrol, ABS, EBD, TC, DRL, EFI, DCP, ABC, T WAT, S owners ?

Edited by Red 4 on Thursday 1st March 14:13

Good one! T WAT indeed if you buy one.

[jm doc]

ghe13rte said:

Red 4 said:

HantsRat said:

Target blue eye is £899 without the weird extender thing.

[quote].

Is that the Target Blue Eye VCD SI SF Advanced Dipole Bumper Mounted Model ?

Or are they reserved for C63 AMG V8 Bi-Turbo MCT 7 Speed Racestart, Ridecontrol, ABS, EBD, TC, DRL, EFI, DCP, ABC, T WAT, S owners ?

Edited by Red 4 on Thursday 1st March 14:13

Good one! T WAT indeed if you buy one.

Who really is the T WAT though. I see you haven't replied to my question earlier.
I think we know the answer to T WAT question now though.

[sonnenschein3000]

Has anyone had any hassle off the police / legal troubles for using TETRA detectors?

[Tomo1971]

1. More than the emergency services use Tetra, Airwave is sold too 3rd parties, councils, utility companies, forestry operations etc.
2. Airwave is seeing a staged conversion to EE ESN this year, no doubt Airwave tetra will be used as a backup until any issues are ironed out but the end for Tetra on emergency services is drawing closer.

[sonnenschein3000]

Tomo1971 said:

1. More than the emergency services use Tetra, Airwave is sold too 3rd parties, councils, utility companies, forestry operations etc.
2. Airwave is seeing a staged conversion to EE ESN this year, no doubt Airwave tetra will be used as a backup until any issues are ironed out but the end for Tetra on emergency services is drawing closer.

Oh okay, so it sounds like its not exclusive to emergency services anyway.

[Greendubber]

Tomo1971 said:

1. More than the emergency services use Tetra, Airwave is sold too 3rd parties, councils, utility companies, forestry operations etc.
2. Airwave is seeing a staged conversion to EE ESN this year, no doubt Airwave tetra will be used as a backup until any issues are ironed out but the end for Tetra on emergency services is drawing closer.

We've seen our new radios that'll be rolled out in the future and I can confidently say tetra detectors will be useless for trying to spot plod.

Airwaves days are very much numbered.

[sonnenschein3000]

Greendubber said:

We've seen our new radios that'll be rolled out in the future and I can confidently say tetra detectors will be useless for trying to spot plod.

Airwaves days are very much numbered.

Thank you, but is the ownership and use of a TETRA detector (even if totally useless) legal or illegal?

[Russ T Bolt]

Greendubber said:

Tomo1971 said:

1. More than the emergency services use Tetra, Airwave is sold too 3rd parties, councils, utility companies, forestry operations etc.
2. Airwave is seeing a staged conversion to EE ESN this year, no doubt Airwave tetra will be used as a backup until any issues are ironed out but the end for Tetra on emergency services is drawing closer.

We've seen our new radios that'll be rolled out in the future and I can confidently say tetra detectors will be useless for trying to spot plod.

Airwaves days are very much numbered.

The staged roll out is for a data service, so Police will still have Airwave for voice (the contract for which has just been extended).

Problem is, as mentioned above many many groups use Airwave so the opportunity for a false alert are pretty high.

[jm doc]

sonnenschein3000 said:

Greendubber said:

We've seen our new radios that'll be rolled out in the future and I can confidently say tetra detectors will be useless for trying to spot plod.

Airwaves days are very much numbered.

Thank you, but is the ownership and use of a TETRA detector (even if totally useless) legal or illegal?

Completely legal. They do work but aren't brilliant. Target blu eye are massively overpriced. As others have pointed out, they are phasing out the tetra system allegedly over the next year or so, but knowing the efficiency of massive roll outs of new technology in the public sector it could be years!

[sonnenschein3000]

Russ T Bolt said:

The staged roll out is for a data service, so Police will still have Airwave for voice (the contract for which has just been extended).

By any chance, do you know how long this contract is for?

[Russ T Bolt]

sonnenschein3000 said:

Russ T Bolt said:

The staged roll out is for a data service, so Police will still have Airwave for voice (the contract for which has just been extended).

By any chance, do you know how long this contract is for?

It is on Linked In, if you follow the ESN thread there is a load of info, including a demo of the Samsung device mentioned above using the first iteration of Motorola's PSCS software on the EE Network.

I don't think the extension is particularly long, but will give cover for the rollout, critical voice starts next year, about 6 months following data - if I understand the info correctly.