Good Evening and 73s to you this Saturday evening. Like Gibson stated you can go licensed or unlicensed.
Unlicensed on either FRS or CB bands for example. You can pick up both equipment fairly cheaply at your favorite store, Wal-Mart, Amazon, or truck stop. For what it's worth you would probably be better off with a bunch of CB radios and 12 V auto batteries. It works and there is several channels available. Most radios are AM based have 4 watts PEP, Single sideband radios can use up to 12 watts PEP. At 4 watts AM you can go 2 to 15 miles dependent on line of sight and antenna height which most are vertical. FCC permits a max of 160 miles between contact on the CB frequencies skipping through the ionosphere. Usually at night you will get foreign stations taking over the frequencies. You also must stay within the limitations and cannot use an amplifier or you lose your 'license by rule' However licensed is another option that can be done. However there is more costs in both time and money. You must decide what equipment you want to buy. Then you have to get you license from FCC and the ULS for the appropriate bands of frequencies for general mobile radio service, business radio or amateur radio. So you have some options. Based on your previous message. I think giving each of your team's a portable CB, along with mobile stations for the trucks and base station. You should be pretty good. You can load it all into a backpack if you need to. Again a 5 foot vertical antenna will do much better than a shorter one. All for a couple hundred dollars from your local truck stop. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers from Justin -- ------------------------------------- Justin W Elam ### NNNN -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAB0k3ibvef1PcJFg1eLW5_k6bbG%2BTA%3Dx1m4fje4X%3Dde-Z0Ky3g%40mail.gmail.com.
