WTF: Do ambos have radar?

[Squeak the Rat]

Thrice recently I've had an ambulance approach from behind under lights while I'm stuck in traffic and my radar detector has hit the roof on Ka band.

Is this just a coincidence that there happened to be a cop in the very near vicinity out of eyesight, or do ambulances have radar in them for some reason unfathomable to me?

:scratch:

[Craig11]

Probably just the ambo, those thing go off when u pass malls and stuff don't they? Something with the eftpos or something?

[ManDownUnder]

Dog whistles, brass knuckles, and mace... yup - they should carry those.

But a radar? Curious (unless there's equipment like the defibrithingimallator that sets it off?)

[bugjuice]

radars scan for the police radio frequency (amongst other things), ambo's use a similar band, so the radar picks that up

[Squeak the Rat]

Probably just the ambo, those thing go off when u pass malls and stuff don't they? Something with the eftpos or something?

Not usually on Ka band. I think it's X or K band that gets set off by automatic doors and the like.

Maybe the ambos are in cahoots with the coppas helping to bust innocent speeders :innocent:

[ManDownUnder]

Something with the eftpos or something?


LOL... Sir you're having a heart attack - that's $59.95.

Would you like a kidney failure with that, we have them on special for $40, or we can run you over with this fine ambulance for a mere $75.00 + cleaning fee

[The_Dover]

you might be on to something there squeakyrat.

i was hooning up past drury one night last year, flew past an ambulance (going the other way) at a fair crack and got pulled up by a pig on a bike just after manukau for a "chat".

[ZorsT]

I thought some radar detectors detected emergency vehicles, when they have lights and siren going?

[Craig11]

HAHA, lol now youre just being a smartarse... Being run over with an ambo doesn't cost that much!

[tl_tub]

No radars in ambos. Either a coincidence or the other equipment in them is causing a false alarm :yes: Remember also that highway patrol cars come in all shapes, sizes and colors :yes:

[The_Dover]

There is an expanded K band that has emergency service messages in it but it's not used in NZ.

X band and K band are both set off by door openers.

Stalker, as used by the bacon, are Ka band.

As far as I know it's the only band you need on in NZ, no point in shitting yourself everytime you go past Pak'N'Save.

Do the piggies use Ku band out here yet? I've had a couple of blasts Ku (not KY) on my detector.

[Squeak the Rat]

Remember also that highway patrol cars come in all shapes, sizes and colors :yes:

Like big white vans with red AMBULANCE painted on this side perhaps?

[tl_tub]

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Do the piggies use Ku band out here yet? I've had a couple of blasts Ku (not KY) on my detector.

Only the KA 34 GHz'ish band

[The_Dover]

must've been a dodgy microwave oven giving me a blast then....

[Motu]

Put a man in uniform and he will grow a mustache and boss people around - it's just nature at work.

[bell]

What about these "green light devices" you see advertised? I know some states in Oz fit their firetrucks/ambos with these transponders gizmos to get them through the lights more quickly - maybe some buses use them to trigger light changes too?

[Swoop]

LOL... Sir you're having a heart attack - that's $59.95.

Would you like a kidney failure with that, we have them on special for $40, or we can run you over with this fine ambulance for a mere $75.00 + cleaning fee
Is that including GST?

[Lou Girardin]

Tractors are sold in NZ with the US SWS (Safety Warning System), maybe some ambulances have it too?

[Riff Raff]

Maybe the ambos are in cahoots with the coppas helping to bust innocent speeders :innocent:
Fuck, I wish! Actually I'd like to be able to bust stupid pricks who get in my way, or haven't heard about checking your rear vision mirror occassionally.

As for radar - maybe it's the black box ambulances are fitted with which tells all the bigwigs in St John if we're speeding. Bastards!

[Ixion]

I was pootling down the Mangere motorway a couple of weeks ago, when I saw (and heard) an ambo coming up behind. So, I moved left (2 lane motorway ), as did everyone else. Except some dork ahead in a Jap cage of some sort. Who just kept trundling along at around 80 (what the traffic was doing). Oblivious to this noisy flashy thing right behind his bumper.

And on he trndled for over a kilometre, until someone ahead in the left lane realised what was happening and braked hard, thus opening a gap in the left lane next to the ambo. Who then did a left, right around the obstacle and wailed off.

How can anyone NOT notice a shrieking wailing flashing thing the size of an ambo immediately behind them?

Can you not dob them in for a (well deserved) ticket if they don't get out of the way?

And I would have thought the bigwigs would be more worried about you NOT speeding ?

[Squeak the Rat]

I've been meaning to write a thread for a while now admiring the patience of ambulance and fire service drivers trying to get through motorway traffic. Not so much police because people tend to see them and react quicker for some strange reason....