Hello Everyone.
I've been debating on setting up some radios for base to base with family less than 5 miles away. It would be great if everyone had a amateur radio license but its very difficult to motivate everyone for the tech test. I am still working on my Dad though.
I tested before with one of the rs murs units with a ground plane hanging from my ceiling to a ht and we could barely hear each other. If I were to purchase a few of the midland mtx100 units and put antennas in the attic I still have my doubts about it being reliable. Especially with coax losses at uhf and I'm wondering how much a house blocks uhf signals? Maybe a attic yagi at each location would give us a solid signal.
CB with attic dipoles and ssb would be trivial however I'm not sure if I ever want to dip my feet in that band again. Although locally it does seem fairly quiet even in my medium size city.
I've dabbled with the idea for quite some time to get by with cheaper phone plans. We don't have a huge need for it and could more easily just chat over wifi. However its nice to have a backup or just plain fun to chat over the radio with conversations that don't have to be private.
Not sure what my question is exactly. I guess its the same debate of cb vs gmrs for my use. If the cb had better etiquette being license free and ssb has a lot of advantage over gmrs imo.
I've been debating on setting up some radios for base to base with family less than 5 miles away. It would be great if everyone had a amateur radio license but its very difficult to motivate everyone for the tech test. I am still working on my Dad though.
I tested before with one of the rs murs units with a ground plane hanging from my ceiling to a ht and we could barely hear each other. If I were to purchase a few of the midland mtx100 units and put antennas in the attic I still have my doubts about it being reliable. Especially with coax losses at uhf and I'm wondering how much a house blocks uhf signals? Maybe a attic yagi at each location would give us a solid signal.
CB with attic dipoles and ssb would be trivial however I'm not sure if I ever want to dip my feet in that band again. Although locally it does seem fairly quiet even in my medium size city.
I've dabbled with the idea for quite some time to get by with cheaper phone plans. We don't have a huge need for it and could more easily just chat over wifi. However its nice to have a backup or just plain fun to chat over the radio with conversations that don't have to be private.
Not sure what my question is exactly. I guess its the same debate of cb vs gmrs for my use. If the cb had better etiquette being license free and ssb has a lot of advantage over gmrs imo.