Jasphetamine
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- May 22, 2016
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I want to buy a few radios which need to be durable and powerful. They need to work in NYC where the air is soaked with traffic. They need to be simple enough that anyone who is handed one can figure out how to make it work.
I think this means I want something operating on 900mhz. However, Moto's sub-400 dollar radios have... well they look like Talkabouts.
The 900mhz technology is in theory quite impressive but it isn't time tested -- also it is slathered in marketing and confusing to me. I don't think it is DMR, but it is digital? It seems like it is encrypted, but I thought the FCC banned that? I don't like the whole handset-to-handset idea either. Help.
Over the years a Motorola radio became sentimentalized in my mind as a simple, heavy, indestructible, and time tested tool that always worked. Just a black box that kept everyone on comms without making a fuss.
If I go off those criteria, it then seems like maybe the RMM2050 would fit the bill. Robust chassis, proper form factor, no nonsense. I assume when I got them I'd set them up with privacy codes together, put them on the charger, then they'd just act like what I'm used to the next day.
The question then becomes is 900mhz the solution here, and if so should I wait a while to see if Moto puts out a 900mhz radio in a more traditional form factor?
- Jas
I think this means I want something operating on 900mhz. However, Moto's sub-400 dollar radios have... well they look like Talkabouts.
The 900mhz technology is in theory quite impressive but it isn't time tested -- also it is slathered in marketing and confusing to me. I don't think it is DMR, but it is digital? It seems like it is encrypted, but I thought the FCC banned that? I don't like the whole handset-to-handset idea either. Help.
Over the years a Motorola radio became sentimentalized in my mind as a simple, heavy, indestructible, and time tested tool that always worked. Just a black box that kept everyone on comms without making a fuss.
If I go off those criteria, it then seems like maybe the RMM2050 would fit the bill. Robust chassis, proper form factor, no nonsense. I assume when I got them I'd set them up with privacy codes together, put them on the charger, then they'd just act like what I'm used to the next day.
The question then becomes is 900mhz the solution here, and if so should I wait a while to see if Moto puts out a 900mhz radio in a more traditional form factor?
- Jas