School me on hand held 2 meter radios (HAM)
jefe here from the TC forum. My bro has a ham radio in his TC and wants me to get a ham radio for my TC as we are going way off-grid on an Eastern Sierra Nevada run. My jeeping buddies all have hams i...
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First of all I’m going to assume you have an amateur radio license, or will get one soon. The Eastern Sierra area is not as remote as you may think as there are a number of amateur repeaters that cover much of the region. That being said, most off-roaders will use a simplex (non-repeater) channel for communications between vehicles. My son uses such an arrangement to communicate between he and his friends when on snowmobiles. Repeater channels can still be used to talk back to base camp or over longer distances.
I strongly recommend a mobile radio which will have far more effective range, with the use of a better antenna and higher power. Mobile radios at a reason price can be found through the Ebay and other on-line sources.
I will be in the Eastern Sierra area in two weeks to provide a repeater for communications for a bicycle ralley that begins in Badwater, Death Valley and ends at Whitney Portal. To communicate from the check points back to the net control in Lone Pine we use both the portable repeater and simplex when the riders get closer to Lone Pine.
Where will you be off-roading in the Eastern Sierra?
I strongly recommend a mobile radio which will have far more effective range, with the use of a better antenna and higher power. Mobile radios at a reason price can be found through the Ebay and other on-line sources.
I will be in the Eastern Sierra area in two weeks to provide a repeater for communications for a bicycle ralley that begins in Badwater, Death Valley and ends at Whitney Portal. To communicate from the check points back to the net control in Lone Pine we use both the portable repeater and simplex when the riders get closer to Lone Pine.
Where will you be off-roading in the Eastern Sierra?
