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No. Not legally. DoC paid to have the repeaters installed, and pay an annual fee to Radio Spectrum NZ or some such Govt dept for the use of those frequencies.

In high usage areas (Auck, ChCh)...

All Govt departments (DoC, SAR, NZDF, Customs etc) generally use VHF freqs in the ES band (136 - 149mhz if memory serves me right) not the PRS part of the UHF spectrum (476-477mhz) that all the...

Not so anymore. In Aug last year the NZ Govt put the stops on any programable walkie talkies (Baofeng, Wouxun, etc etc) being privately imported.

Go onto Aliexpress and search for Baofeng. You...