Good price. It's been too long since I was involved with MED licensing, but typically you are looking at routine patient stat info between ambulance and hospital and between ambulances. You can also send telemetry.
Let me guess... they dropped the licenses and use cell phones. What a HUGE mistake. Your frequency coordinator should be able to tell you if there is a State or regional plan in use. We have a State plan that spells out what Med channels and what PL frequencies will be used in each area of operation. I believe the State Health Department dictates this here. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:42 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Looking at a UHF repeater... > Howdy, everyone. I have an option to buy a working, used repeater from a friend of mine. > It's a Motorola, formerly owned by our local ambulance company. Looks like it was in > operation from 1988 until at least 1994. > > The model is C64RCB-3105AT. According to Kevin's info on the web page, it is a > Compra-Station, between 70 and 99 watts, 403-512 MHz, RC series (?), 120 VAC, > PL, Narrow channel, T1/R1, DC remote, and RT repeater. It's on 462.975 / 467.975, > with a PL. > > It looks like everything's there... PA, exciter, card cage, reciever, power supply, and > the 4 cavities. It has the Squelch Gate, TimeOut timer, DC transfer, Station control > and Line driver cards installed. I have NOT turned it on yet, wondering if there might > be some issue with the p/s caps, being suddenly turned on after being off for several > years, don't want it to go up in smoke, eh? :-) > > SO... this brings up a bunch of questions. Some directly apply, others, well, we're not > all amateurs here, are we? :-) > > 1) He's asking $200. Does that sound like a good price for it? :-) > > 2) What's the duty cycle? And, if it said narrow channel, is it 12.5 MHz spacing, > or 25? I'm eventually going to put it in my hospital, which ironically does NOT have > any equipment on this frequency or any of the local med frequencies, but it'd be > nice to put in 12.5-capable equipment, otherwise I may just convert it to amateur. > > 3) Our competing hospital, 1.5 miles away (only 2 of us left here in town) is licensed > for all the med frequencies but I don't think they use any of them. The ambulance system > (our hospitals jointly owns the ambulance) dropped all its' med licenses a couple of years > ago... In fact, I'm not sure they have current licenses for their HEAR radios, and they use > city-owned radios for dispatch and talking to the hospitals. So... what kind of traffic is > allowed on a med freq? > > 4) And finally, I know I got to go thru our radio coordination (IAFC, I believe) > before I file with the FCC but... trying to look at FCC form 1070, I think we'd be > under LMRS, PMRS, below 470 MHz, which would be $150... right? And I > wonder if I really need to go thru the IAFC? :-) > > I thank you for your time. > > _Ray_ KB�STN > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
