At 9/30/2008 10:41, you wrote: >At 10:16 9/30/2008, Robert Pease wrote: >>Not to start a reg debate but I believe the fcc only allows any and all >>means of communication when there is an imminent threat to life or property > >Such as a forest fire, earthquake recovery, flood coming or just been >here, etc. > >>AND there is no other means of communications available. > >Hey, if the cell phones work we are not needed, right? And how many >forest fire scenes have cell phone coverage???? If you don't have the >great duplexer needed for 600KHz separation, that mode is NOT AVAILABLE.
You can use ~2.5 MHz separation & a 6-section mobile VHF duplexer. Did that several times @ Dayton & other local public service events. Bob NO6B
