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Originally Posted by capfiremedic
The repeaters themselves are new since Katrina. The old ones took a salt water douche and were scraped by Motorola as unsalvageable. Currently we run one VHF repeater in the north end of Hancock County and the 800 system. Prior to the storm there was also a co-phased second vhf repeater in the south end of the County. We had the ability to chose which repeater to use as they each had their own foibles, but our coverage was very satisfactory. With this 800 system, the coverage is nowhere near as good and we can't afford to go completely with Motorola products anyway. We wanted to add some Kenwood gear, but our local Motorola distributor refuses to release the "keys" for the programming... So much for APCO 25...
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capfiremedic
I live in slidell and i will say that the vhf sounds much better then the 800mhz you guys have, i can get it much better and have added it to my scanning feed,
but as far as vhf , this system sounds good on a whip antenna i use here, its not that big and monted on a (laughs) direct t.v. arm mast
and i do get bay st louis pd vhf and hancock vhf like if i was right next to the tower.