OneSixActual
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- Feb 25, 2012
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Hello all, I apologize if this is the wrong section, but you seem like a knowledgeable sort!
My unit uses commercial/off the shelf FRS/GMRS radios to talk to each other during field problems, and while they're OK they're not exactly useful over distances (at all) or anywhere there's vegetation, metal objects, or outdoors. As a result, I've recommended to my COC that we switch to commercial UHF radios for garrison training, since our manportable military radios consist of two MBITRs for an entire company.
I'm looking at several COTS programs, including buying old Saber radios in bulk as well as the XTS3000 options, in addition to Yaesu and Kenwood radios. I'm setting up a test program right now where we look at the options available. Because this is coming out of unit funds, and not Big Army money, we can't afford to go to vendors for nice things just to test so I've purchased one of each radio from our sample pool out of pocket. The only problem is that the Motorola Saber 1E I bought isn't programmed. Are there any commercial places that can program the Saber, or anyone local willing to help? If we do go with the Sabers or XTS3000s we'll buy them from a place that can bulk program them for us, but for now, I'm kind of up a creek.
I'm stationed on Ft Campbell if that helps, and have no problem shipping the handset around. For backwards compatibility we're looking to operate on standard FRS/GMRS freqs, there's no guarantee about how long this whole process will take and there's no sense in running two commo freqs.
Thank you!
My unit uses commercial/off the shelf FRS/GMRS radios to talk to each other during field problems, and while they're OK they're not exactly useful over distances (at all) or anywhere there's vegetation, metal objects, or outdoors. As a result, I've recommended to my COC that we switch to commercial UHF radios for garrison training, since our manportable military radios consist of two MBITRs for an entire company.
I'm looking at several COTS programs, including buying old Saber radios in bulk as well as the XTS3000 options, in addition to Yaesu and Kenwood radios. I'm setting up a test program right now where we look at the options available. Because this is coming out of unit funds, and not Big Army money, we can't afford to go to vendors for nice things just to test so I've purchased one of each radio from our sample pool out of pocket. The only problem is that the Motorola Saber 1E I bought isn't programmed. Are there any commercial places that can program the Saber, or anyone local willing to help? If we do go with the Sabers or XTS3000s we'll buy them from a place that can bulk program them for us, but for now, I'm kind of up a creek.
I'm stationed on Ft Campbell if that helps, and have no problem shipping the handset around. For backwards compatibility we're looking to operate on standard FRS/GMRS freqs, there's no guarantee about how long this whole process will take and there's no sense in running two commo freqs.
Thank you!