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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).

<blockquote data-quote="Hutch" data-source="post: 210442" data-attributes="member: 8824">Just off the top you&#039;re talking about commercially licensed repeaters so you&#039;ll need commercial radios to comply with your license, that rules out you using amateur radios on your repeater.&nbsp; 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&#039;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&#039;s worth.&nbsp; 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).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hutch, post: 210442, member: 8824"] 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). [/QUOTE]

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