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Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: 3-way handheld comm recommendation for tower work

To: Patrick <patrick_g@windstream.net>, towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: 3-way handheld comm recommendation for tower work
From: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:24:36 -0700
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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
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