AST NatGeo Show

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I see that the troopers sometimes have to hold their radios high into the air while speaking into their shoulder mic. My question is; when they're on ATV's in a rural village how does their radio get out to hit the repeater in such a place? I doubt the ATV's have radios for a repeater on them?

Also, their VHF antenna's look much longer than the standard VHF antenna!

Thanks.

 

[n3obl]

They are using the wideband VHF antenna on a XTS5000 p25 trunking portable. I have one of those antennas to.

Frank

 

[Wilrobnson]

I see that the troopers sometimes have to hold their radios high into the air while speaking into their shoulder mic. My question is; when they're on ATV's in a rural village how does their radio get out to hit the repeater in such a place? I doubt the ATV's have radios for a repeater on them?

I don't know about now (nor that show- don't watch TV), but when I was working up there, you sometimes had no comms in the villages, or you had a simplex channel that any public safety in the village/area had...Had to call the VFD fire chief in a couple of places for assistance on arrests more than once

We also had VHF marine radios or CB radios. Later, some of the radios got VHF 68-72 programmed in them. Some of the villages have no phone service, so the VHF or CB was the only comm source.