VicScan.org

[Michael Keeping]

Is www.vicscan.org being updated anymore?

I see the forums have a nice little community going, but nothing is
being updated to reflect what is actually going on in Victoria.
Everyday it's becoming more and more outdated and there is a forum on
that very website with the users calling themselves "scanner
enthusiasts".

Also, why are each and every page showing the repeater output as TX
and the repeater input as RX? People in general listen to the
repeater, not the input. That is subject to change if an enthusiast is
doing some sort of research or tracking... but I mean who wants to
listen to dead frequencies? 90% of transmissions in my area are only
receivable by the repeater, people are often on the other side of
Melbourne and it takes the repeaters to pick them up...

While I don't have a problem with you pulling information out of the
ACMA database, do it so it's beneficial to scanner operators or don't
do it at all.

No offence but even Ash Geelan's old website is more accurate than
yours...

If only good old humpty dumpty could sit on the wall.

[Mick]

Post by Michael Keeping
Is www.vicscan.org being updated anymore?
I see the forums have a nice little community going, but nothing is
being updated to reflect what is actually going on in Victoria.
Everyday it's becoming more and more outdated and there is a forum on
that very website with the users calling themselves "scanner
enthusiasts".
Also, why are each and every page showing the repeater output as TX
and the repeater input as RX? People in general listen to the
repeater, not the input. That is subject to change if an enthusiast is
doing some sort of research or tracking... but I mean who wants to
listen to dead frequencies? 90% of transmissions in my area are only
receivable by the repeater, people are often on the other side of
Melbourne and it takes the repeaters to pick them up...
While I don't have a problem with you pulling information out of the
ACMA database, do it so it's beneficial to scanner operators or don't
do it at all.
No offence but even Ash Geelan's old website is more accurate than
yours...
If only good old humpty dumpty could sit on the wall.

GROAN.........................

Is Ashleys that up to date???? Hmm a quick visit whilst typing this post
reveals -

1) He still hadn't taken down the old MFB, VicPol UHF frequencies for
starters.
2) VicAmbulance link doesn't work
3) 800Mhz Trunking Link not working
4) CFA Permanent stations list is 4 years out of date and inacurate (last
update 28/05/2004)
5) Nothing about the MMR system despite it being in use for a couple of
years now.

Just a quick sample of what's wrong with it

Oh well so much for Australian Scanning Encyclopedia (Still Australia's #1
Scanning Site) (bit of a overstatement here me thinks)

Regards Mick (another Mick)

P.S. MK nobody is forcing you to be a member of VicScan.org

P.P.S. I can find any contributions to the site by yourself?????

[Michael Keeping]

Mick,

In regards to your PS's I was a member of VicScan and had my account
deactivated by the clown running it because he was suspicious as to
why I was using the "his" forums and when I questioned it, it being
the clown, he said that his website was hacked and he was just trying
to be on the safe side. Why was my account deactivated? Because of it
having it's mind made up about me due to prior public misleadings
about myself by a group. If anyone knows how the legal process works I
cannot really say much due to current orders so the outcome won't be
known and what's already in people like the clowns (VicScan owner)
head won't change.

So in the end I just gave up and didn't bother returning to the
forums, the so called "scanner enthusiasts" using it don't know SFA
about scanning but run around using that title when at the end of the
day they (the site as a whole) lost someone who would of been very
valuable to them. Would you contribute to a website that treats you
like that? Of course not, so that is why no contributions have been
made by myself.

If it's going to continue operating without treating everyone fairly
and listening to both sides of a story before concluding (in this case
that my terms for signing up were suspicious) then they can obviously
afford to lose someone who would of been able to provide very
informative updates, then I wish them a very rapid ending.

Back in 2006, the clown came out and said he was filling a void
because the site I once operated for a short time had vanished, now
two years on it's upto shit meaning those wanting quality information
and resources won't get that.

Ashley's old site (he doesn't own or maintain it any longer) does
contain more accurate information than VicScan, while you have pointed
out some issues with it the most of the other information is still
very up to date. Life does exist outside of the emergency services and
Melbourne on the radio - that's what I am referring to with the
information. Obviously the emergency services have undergone some
massive changes to their network, ones that took effect after he sold
the site and lost any access that he once had to continue maintaining
it.

That is my case, and if VicScan come back and say they have updated it
since it's beginning then they need to immediately check their sources
(probably directly out of the ACMA database and the ASE) as it's very
incorrect and is only embarassing them to those, who like myself, are
aware of the discrepancies with it.

Catch you later.

Michael