The Virginia Tech Rescue Squad is looking to build a tactical repeater for VHF. As almost everyone has seen, we cover a good mix of rural and "urban areas". We're looking for a small form factor case mounted device. We have 2 frequencies with a 5.25Mhz offset. This is to be used as a repeater for a secondary freq. during our football operations (we manage 70+ personnel and nearly a dozen ambulances), a tactical repeater for larger incidents, and a backup repeater for those murphy's law situations (our primary repeater is on the top of an academic building). I have been looking at a pelican case form factor for this. Haven't have built a repeater before I have a few questions: 1) What reciever/transmitter, controller and duplexer should be used? I'm thinking using low power (10-25W should be enough power for our coverage area). 2) What options are there for running this off of batter power as well as 120V? 3) Is it possible to have this rainproof without burning up the repeater?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Lt. Jason Dominiczak, EMT-E EMT-T, KC2LNO Vehicles and Communications Virginia Tech Rescue Squad
