experimentalist
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- Sep 13, 2011
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Hello,
I'm a firefighter/EMS in my county, and I have a Motorola XTS 2500 Model II Radio with a red coded
800-900MHz dipole antenna. We are an all-volunteer hall, and we depend on our pagers/radios to
know when a call has come in.
My problem is that when I am at work, I get OUT OF RANGE errors all the time. When I move to a
window, or just outside the building, I get full reception. What I'm looking for, is a method to improve
reception inside. My pager also does not work indoors here. This place is built like a friggin faraday cage
with all steel studs, thick concrete floors, etc. Cell phones do work OK.
I can easily run an external antenna out to our rooftop. What I don't know, is if this is a feasible
choice for me. I'm not an expert on Radios at all, but I do know a licensed HAM operator that I could
talk to for further (local) advice. I'm hoping I could pass some suggestions from here, on to him and
we could work up a solution.
Any tips or suggestions on what I can do? I don't want to be missing calls just because I'm 25 feet away
from a window.
Thank you!
I'm a firefighter/EMS in my county, and I have a Motorola XTS 2500 Model II Radio with a red coded
800-900MHz dipole antenna. We are an all-volunteer hall, and we depend on our pagers/radios to
know when a call has come in.
My problem is that when I am at work, I get OUT OF RANGE errors all the time. When I move to a
window, or just outside the building, I get full reception. What I'm looking for, is a method to improve
reception inside. My pager also does not work indoors here. This place is built like a friggin faraday cage
with all steel studs, thick concrete floors, etc. Cell phones do work OK.
I can easily run an external antenna out to our rooftop. What I don't know, is if this is a feasible
choice for me. I'm not an expert on Radios at all, but I do know a licensed HAM operator that I could
talk to for further (local) advice. I'm hoping I could pass some suggestions from here, on to him and
we could work up a solution.
Any tips or suggestions on what I can do? I don't want to be missing calls just because I'm 25 feet away
from a window.
Thank you!