Noob Needs help

[joker77c]

I have some questions that I have no idea how to get answered so i thought I would ask the experts.

My company has 4 frequencies on the UHF band licensed to use for our business. We currently have four repeaters set up using these frequencies for communication on our current job.

I am looking to buy a few handhelds to work on these freq. for myself and our superintendent. I need to have something that I can program these 4 freq into and receive and transmit from. It would be nice to also have something to monitor police and fire frequencies. And I am also looking to get my HAM license in the future so that would be nice also.

Does something like that exist? Can I do all of them from a single unit, or is that possible?

Thanks for the help in advance

 

[Hutch]

Just off the top you're talking about commercially licensed repeaters so you'll need commercial radios to comply with your license, that rules out you using amateur radios on your repeater. You can go the other way round in the future, you can use commercial radios on the amateur bands as long as you are licensed as an amateur to operate on those frequencies.

As for police and fire it will depend on what frequencies that your radio's work on and on what frequencies that the fire and police use in your area.

The other issue is commercial radios are usually not as easy to program as amateur radios, they usually need special software and cables to program them.

So really in the end it might be possible but it also might be more trouble and expensive than it's worth. A two or three radio solution is most likely the easiest, a commercial radio, an amateur radio and scanner (especially if you fire and police are trunked and or digital).

 

[Moleculo]

Depending on the police/fire in your area, they may be using a trunked system or digital system. If that's the case, you'll need the compatible scanner or radio to listen in, which won't be the same as your commercial repeater system. If if they're not, you're still looking at separate sets of radios.