My Communications System
A while back, I promised to post some pics of my/our communications system. It's really kinda' neat.
My best friend of 35 years owns some radio and cell phone towers and a commercial/public safety communications sales and broadcasting company. So our group/families/and friends jumped on board about 20 years ago and put together our own little private system, so to speak.
Our system has several components. We have 6 UHF and VHF repeaters set up at our main site where our 275' tower is located. Some pics will follow below. Other repeaters are set up at several locations.
The company itself maintains it's own equipment/parts/spare equipment facility, repair shop, and broadcast facility - all underground and protected from EMP, with back-up generators. Let's just say that we have quadruple redundancy on EVERYTHING.
We can all communicate with each other within an approximate range of 60 miles from the primary tower by mobile radio and within an approximate range of 25 miles from the primary tower by portable (walkie-talkie). Anyone within that range of the tower can talk to each other.
We have a pretty good inventory of these things. About 30 mobile units are installed in about 20 vehicles, and we have about 25 spare mobile units. We also have 72 portables with 2 spare batteries each, and several AC/DC gang chargers.
One really neat component of our system are our portable repeaters. We have a few different types that are all immediately field deployable. They all can operate on both 110 volt and 12 volt power supplies. These units give us the option of setting up a repeater system literally anywhere in the world. Communications range will depend upon the line of sight height of the unit deployed.
So, here are a few posts with some pics...........
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