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DrMaino

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Please share some advice. I'm one of the medical guys for a high school mountain bike league here in CO. We need a comm system to cover backcountry races. I'm looking for suggestions for handhelds that connect via a central repeater placed somewhere high on the course. The users of the handhelds are not licensed. I'm a HAM and could get a separate license for a repeater. Any suggestions as to repeater and handheld brands/types, etc?

Thanks for the help
Tom Maino
 

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Well there is GMRS, MURS, and maybe CB? How often are these races? Am not sure what the FCC requirements are for getting a licensed official freq or two, but maybe that is something you could look into?
 

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If you are doing this in 'the wild' , the easist way to cover large areas is get your local ham radio club involved.

Here in the Northwest, we use the hams to cover over 300 sq miles of back county for off road racing events for cars and bikes and have never had a problem.

The hams can move into a hill top area with very little equipment on the day before the event and be able to provide communications to you.

Using hams is much easyer then trying to setup any commerrical radio system as no licenseing is required.
 

kent11

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check out www dot tacticalrepeater dot com can be use in commmercial and ham bands
 

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The county ARES might be a source of help too. Public service is one of the ARES' roles. HTH.
 
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