An amazing amount of radio for $40, but as tested didn't meet
harmonic/spur suppression FCC specs. A club member fired one up on a
spectrum analyzer for a meeting about a year ago, not pretty. But a
good enough handy radio to have for emergency use. I also have several
UV-5Rs.
Also, don't expect the front ends to handle any serious amount of
adjacent RF as in near a cell site or commercial tower farm. Only the
commercial Motorola HT radios can handle that per my tower guy whose
climbers only use them.
Grant KZ1W
On 10/15/2017 8:41 AM, Patrick wrote:
Baofeng hand held radios come with earphone/mike and operate 2m and
440MHz simplex or split and also cover the marine band, all NOAA WX
chans, GMRS, FRS, etc. They even cover your music and news needs by
covering the FM broadcast as well. Roughly $40 from Amazon. I have
several UV-5R (one per vehicle) A lot of radio for $40.
Patrick
On 10/15/2017 10:23 AM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
Just any handheld can operate simple. That way you are all on the
same frequency and can talk to each other. Yoy want something cheap,
buy a set of FRS radios. they work on UHF, cost around $30 - 40. You
can find them at Walmarts etc. You can add a head-set and most of
them have VOX built in, and nobody needs a license to operate them.
Good luck with your tower project, de,
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff <keepwalking188@ac0c.com>
To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 3:55
Subject: [TowerTalk] 3-way handheld comm recommendation for tower work
I’m looking for a recommendation on some sort of small radio that
could be used when we have guys up on the tower. The catch is I
would like to find something that would have a shared frequency so we
could have a 3+ radios on the same frequency.
Cell phones with bluetooth would be ideal but that’s out because the
local cell phone service for the guys on the ground is spotty which
is really too bad because that would be a perfect solution.
Something like 2m would work ok but that’s not duplex and would
require PTT activation with a hand that is not necessary going to be
free to push the button.
I’m a HF guy and really don’t know anything about hand-held solutions
but I would guess there is a cheap silver-bullet for this task. Just
have zero idea of what it would be.
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
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