All very good points Skipp. I have developed solutions like what they need many times back in the 80's. Used to put those midland and uniden repeaters up with phone interconnect all the time. Mostly in junk yards. That was after the operators of the yard gave up on the cordless phone with the antenna kits!
The suggestion to use a PTT service is only 9.95 to add to existing service. I was assuming employees already having some sort of cell service. If they do not then a system solutions is the way to go. The one 60 mile hop the poster mentioned is what is going to need some engineering and brings cost and most likely ongoing expense to the solution. The best RF based solution so far sounds like the voice over IP linking. Unless he is in the central valley of California, then just about any of the good mountain top sites will cover him! Cellular sales folks would jump on the opportunity to do something with this. Those folks are more aggressive that the sales folks for 2 way in the hay days. Kevin King SCSA BSCIS ARS KC6OVD GMRS KAG0378 EIEIO 2722 Acworth Georgia -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 12:40 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] radio shops without a vision >> Re: Need Plan info on handheld coverage in Business >> Band for 60 miles or so It would be sad to learn that a good radio shop couldn't come up with the obvious answers to this request, sell the equipment and provide a very cost effective solution to the original coverage request. Figure Cingular units cost min $29 per month just to run the ptt feature. 20 units is an easy $580 a month just as a regular ongoing cost. This type system is where Land Mobile Radio (LMR) could provide a much more cost effective solution at a much reduced ongoing cost over Nextel and/or Cingular. Someone with their well thought out planning hat on would also make the system perform both in and around the store locations just to impress and expand the system to the local area. > Cingular's push to talk feature might be a solution. The problem with many of the older radio shops is the lack of vision... in the old railroad days we called this "sleeping at the switch". I'd be over to the customer location the next day asking to demo the equipment, showing system diagrams and showing off the portables that would work through the system... also showing how much the ongoing costs would be for both systems over the next 3 years. Most people can see that far ahead. About 80% plus of the old time radio shops never seemed to wake up or warm up to the real world... many have gone poof. cheers, skipp Yahoo! Groups Links 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/
