Any group can apply for a commercial band repeater and use it, licensing can be expensive for commercial frequencies though. What we use is MURS for the non hams and then the team leaders are hams and relay the information back to the CP. Might look into seeing if your public service has a frequency that you can use first to avoid spending lot so money of a project that you have a resource already.
Any questions let me know and shoot me an email. Peter Summerhawk Laramie County CERT Instructor -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Repeaters for "CERT" Use? Hello Group, A week or so ago, I believe I read on this list, that someone <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=104168/grpspId=1705063108/msgId= 87839/stime=1231613914/nc1=4025304/nc2=5191952/nc3=5349276> said the CERT groups were allowed to apply for "Commercial" radio channel(s). Here, on Vashon Island, Wa., we have over 100 CERT members. They are using "FRS" radios in the field. It makes it very difficult for our "EOC" to pass and receive traffic from them. How can I verify that indeed CERT is authorized the use of "Commercial" channel(s), and possibly repeater? They way we are set up now....Hams operate out of each of our (5) fire stations and "talk to the EOC on our Island UHF repeater. The EOC would certainly like to be tied into the CERT activities, so I am excited to think that CERT may be authorized VHF/UHF channels for their own system! Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Tim Hardy W7TRH/AFA0TP/FD. EMT
