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

[Grant Saviers]

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
>
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> 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
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff <keepwalking188 at ac0c.com>
>> To: towertalk <towertalk at 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
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