Kind of new to this stuff, I mainly only have basic knowledge about scanners. I work for a major natural gas utility company here in california. We use radios/transceivers in our work trucks to talk to our dispatchers and we use a specific frequency obviously. My question is: do I still have to be licensed and all that stuff to talk to my dispatcher on our frequency if I buy a portable transceiver? Most of the time I'm in houses responding to gas leaks and if I'm not in the truck to hear my dispatcher if another emergency comes in they get ahold of me via pager (yes people still use them lol). I was looking into getting a Kenwood TH-K20A because we use Kenwood TK-790 transceivers in our trucks. I just don't want to get in trouble and have the FCC knocking on my door, i want to do things the right way. Our company frequency is the only frequency i will be communicating on. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!
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Question about transceiver
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nd5y
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If you use a personal radio on your employer's system, the licensee (employer) must approve of it. The person in charge of the radio system needs to provide you with the programming information and insure that the operating parameters conform to what their license allows.
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You aren't going to want to use a TH-K20A as it's an amateur radio. There's plenty of other options out there though, especially if you're only needing a single channel. Your system may be different if you're a bigger company,but I know a lot of the smaller gas companies I've seen are just using simplex comms (radio to radio) so portable coverage may not be so great. However if that's the case you'll probably be fine receiving. Another thought would be just getting a voice pager and just use it for listening and going to your truck to actually transmit.
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You may want to look into getting a used Kenwood TK-2160. You can find them on ebay for under $100 and would work and be legal with your system if you ask them and they allow you to use it. It is FCC Part 90 type accepted.
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