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I don’t know if this ever came up before.
I moved down to Charlotte Back in July and found once thing hard. I was part of a very active radio group in the Providence, RI area. www.pcfn.org.
Is there anyone else in the Area of Charlotte and surrounding counties ever have an interest in starting up a radio group. We did notifications and on/scene reports of fire's, MVA's, PD incidents, etc. The Radio Buff groups are very active in the Northeast. Anyone else interested in doing this. Not trying to make this happen tomorrow but start some discussions and maybe something could be started up down the line.
To give some info, we have 4 radio sites, we owned all 4 frequencies licensed to the group. With the connections with other Fire Departments, we had sites on some city owned towers and some rented space. We operated on 450 and 460 UHF. We were incorporated not-for-profit as an organization. We have bylaws and SOP’s. Regular members had voting rights and associate members who did not. We have a lot of members who are in the news media who used the Radio group secondary to the pagers and a lot of media used the on-scene reports because we gave better reports then some OICs do at times.
Members were paying members. We charged 80 a year. Some other group pay100-130 in some cases. Fees when to keeping the FCC license active and paying for a site location. There is another group call MRS that is so large in MA that is has a fulltime dispatcher on duty during the day (paid by membership dues).
Something I have thought about attempting in Charlotte Metro, but can’t do it alone. Anyone else interested?
I moved down to Charlotte Back in July and found once thing hard. I was part of a very active radio group in the Providence, RI area. www.pcfn.org.
Is there anyone else in the Area of Charlotte and surrounding counties ever have an interest in starting up a radio group. We did notifications and on/scene reports of fire's, MVA's, PD incidents, etc. The Radio Buff groups are very active in the Northeast. Anyone else interested in doing this. Not trying to make this happen tomorrow but start some discussions and maybe something could be started up down the line.
To give some info, we have 4 radio sites, we owned all 4 frequencies licensed to the group. With the connections with other Fire Departments, we had sites on some city owned towers and some rented space. We operated on 450 and 460 UHF. We were incorporated not-for-profit as an organization. We have bylaws and SOP’s. Regular members had voting rights and associate members who did not. We have a lot of members who are in the news media who used the Radio group secondary to the pagers and a lot of media used the on-scene reports because we gave better reports then some OICs do at times.
Members were paying members. We charged 80 a year. Some other group pay100-130 in some cases. Fees when to keeping the FCC license active and paying for a site location. There is another group call MRS that is so large in MA that is has a fulltime dispatcher on duty during the day (paid by membership dues).
Something I have thought about attempting in Charlotte Metro, but can’t do it alone. Anyone else interested?