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bill4long

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Getting permission from the school district and having the FCC agree could be two different things.

Right. User of radios under a licensee's license may only use the radios when performing the business or functions of the licensee as stated on the license. The only exception to this is if you are renting radios from a radio rental company. Somebody (even if his/her name is on the license) at the school district may say, "hey, sure, go ahead and use our system for your own non-related stuff." Not legal.
 

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I'll admit I have thought about it too. Would be cool as heck. I just can't afford it right now.
 

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If you have the ability to license under Part 90 and have a decent site, get yourself some Quantars and program them for $F7F.
Then get some P25 capable conventional portables and program groups using different NAC's. The end users won't hear each other and you can program a radio for Digital Carrier Squelch to be able to monitor everything coming through the repeaters.

While you won't have all the control features of a full featured trunking system, such as inhibit, it's a low tier way to get something on the air.
 

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You still have to justify it to the frequency coordinator and to the fcc and spend between $250,000.00 and $1,000,000.00 total on project
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All land background checks on what the land was used for in the last 200 years.
 

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Better off getting a single frequency pair business pool license and using those radios in conventional mode with a repeater setup for conventional mode.
 

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It's not about getting a repeater up. It's about getting a trunking system up. Conventional is nowhere near trunking. Not as cool. Not as fun. Too simple.
 

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For the same reason all the hammy guys need the myriad of crap in the ham world. For experimentation.

Why don't you guys lighten up on the OP and quit acting like gatekeepers?????????????????????????

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The most retarded comment I've seen in years. Hehe. Hahaha.
 

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Guys, he doesn't HAVE XPRs, he has MTs and an APX. No TPT on conventional...

If he sold the APX, he could have an XPR8300, and a XPR6550, and be able to have his own trunk system... and he would have a radio with conventional TPT...
 

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The New England DMR linked network- NEDECN is a really cool. Its almost sort of a 2 channel trunked system to me as the radio does all the work. The network offers roaming throughout new england with 100 sites at the moment, you can drive all over new england as long as you have the sites in the list. The system has full time talkgroups on one time slot, and PTT activated on the other timeslot. A beacon signal is broadcasted from the sites every min or so it picks the strongest from the list when you get into an area less than ideal coverage = roaming. Theres the new england network only PTT tac channels so say you can occupy the 2nd time slot on your local NY site while someone in Maine is on their local 2nd time slot without tying up the full time wide area talkgroups on the 1st time slot
 
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