I am adding a control station at our dispatch center for second repeater system. This will be used for our Fire/EMS service. The channel will be used at large scale incidents to reduce traffic on the dispatch channel and for administrative purposes.
The control station will also have our primary channel programmed in it and be can be utilized as the primary dispatch link to the dispatch repeater when we have a phone line failure.
I have received multiple quotes from a number of vendors. The control station quotes have ranged from a 40 watt mobile radio interfaced into the dispatch console to a 100 watt base station.
I have limited the choices to a mobile cdm1250 radio with a 9Db gain yagi antenna and preselector or the 40 watt version of the mtr3000 with the same antenna configuration.
The repeater that will be utilized is able to hit the repeater with a portable radio so 40 watts and the 9db gain antenna will should work fine.
I am looking for recommendations and issues that people have had with similar setups.
Thanks
The control station will also have our primary channel programmed in it and be can be utilized as the primary dispatch link to the dispatch repeater when we have a phone line failure.
I have received multiple quotes from a number of vendors. The control station quotes have ranged from a 40 watt mobile radio interfaced into the dispatch console to a 100 watt base station.
I have limited the choices to a mobile cdm1250 radio with a 9Db gain yagi antenna and preselector or the 40 watt version of the mtr3000 with the same antenna configuration.
The repeater that will be utilized is able to hit the repeater with a portable radio so 40 watts and the 9db gain antenna will should work fine.
I am looking for recommendations and issues that people have had with similar setups.
Thanks