Re: [AFMUG] FRS or GMRS for covering a mountain

2019-04-16 Thread Brian Webster
FRS radios do not cover the repeater input frequencies (5 MHz split) for GMRS. Those radios have simplex only hard coded channels. FRS radios do not have all of the GMRS frequencies in them. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com www.Broadband-Mapping.com From: AF

Re: [AFMUG] Mean Well NDR 120-24 & NDR 120-48 for powering Packetflux Rack Injector?

2019-04-16 Thread Sam Lambie
I have been using both of those same models with PF gear for a long time. never had an issue with them. On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 2:51 PM Brandon Yuchasz wrote: > Last night I replaced yet another Amazon special 29.5V power supply that > was feeding out packetflux equipment. These are defiantly a

Re: [AFMUG] FRS or GMRS for covering a mountain

2019-04-16 Thread Bill Prince
If you use an FRS frequency, you will also be limited to FRS power except on a few selected frequencies. On our GMRS radios, they give you the option of high/low power if it is an either/or channel. So technically, you could use a GMRS radio on one of those

Re: [AFMUG] FRS or GMRS for covering a mountain

2019-04-16 Thread chuck
I wonder how many users are actually licensed. If you use FRS frequencies only you don’t have to have a license do you? Can they use a repeater? From: Brian Webster Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 7:46 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FRS or GMRS for covering a

Re: [AFMUG] FRS or GMRS for covering a mountain

2019-04-16 Thread Brian Webster
Yes you can put a GMRS repeater up and you can do it inexpensively because GMRS was not required to move to narrowband channels, that makes a lot of old wideband commercial equipment available for use. The bigger problems however are the rules for GMRS use. The license holder is only allowed