How many use HAM vs C/B for rig to rig etc?
Ladies and Gents, The subject of C/Bs gets brought up every so often and is debated whether or not folks still install and use them. But, not many mention too much about HAM radios. I know and under...
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VHF commercial runs from 150-174 & UHF is 450-512 with the ham bands preceding both. MURS is cool and very few people know it exists, but as you say, it's a 2W service.
People like Ruggid Radios and many others like them have been a pain in the FCC's side for awhile now. Without clearing it with me first our staff security folks bought an entire fleet of radios for the LA studios, they show up, work well, until they started hearing chat they shouldn't have, then they call me. These radios came loaded with local railroad security, a taxi service, a local fire agency, and the one they heard: The City of Long Beach SWAT Tactical channel. All these services are properly licensed and coordinated, and these idiot resellers just pack them full of random channels and send them on their way. They decided to play hardball not allowing us to return the radios nor program them until our FCC Attys. threatened to sue and also included the letter I sent the commission. The favorite for all the desert rats seems to be loading up with VHF marine channels thinking they are fine to bootleg there, except the Coast Guard has high mountain receive sites all over the place listening for offshore distress calls and all they hear are sand buggies in the desert 50+ miles in the other direction. Isn't that special.......
People like Ruggid Radios and many others like them have been a pain in the FCC's side for awhile now. Without clearing it with me first our staff security folks bought an entire fleet of radios for the LA studios, they show up, work well, until they started hearing chat they shouldn't have, then they call me. These radios came loaded with local railroad security, a taxi service, a local fire agency, and the one they heard: The City of Long Beach SWAT Tactical channel. All these services are properly licensed and coordinated, and these idiot resellers just pack them full of random channels and send them on their way. They decided to play hardball not allowing us to return the radios nor program them until our FCC Attys. threatened to sue and also included the letter I sent the commission. The favorite for all the desert rats seems to be loading up with VHF marine channels thinking they are fine to bootleg there, except the Coast Guard has high mountain receive sites all over the place listening for offshore distress calls and all they hear are sand buggies in the desert 50+ miles in the other direction. Isn't that special.......
