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

[Jerry Head II]

We use the (legal) Baofeng in our tower work, great radios for the $.

On 10/15/2017 4:24 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> 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 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
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