EvilG
Newbie
As a member of a small car club, i have been tasked with re-thinking our communications while driving. We currently use Baofeng FRS radios which are pretty lousy.. We take group drives of 25-50 cars around NY State. Some areas with mountains, etc and i'm not looking for miracles.. but 1-3 miles line of site should certainly be possible... the basic communication structure is few to many.. 3-5 broadcasters with up to 30-40 receivers.
i see my options as follows
1. license the broadcasters with GMRS equipment broadcasting at 5W on the FRS channels, the receivers will have FRS radios.. this way they should be able to listen in on the organizers broadcasting instructions, traffic, diversions, etc
2. use MURS radios (which of course don't require licenses)
3. set up some sort of moving repeater at the middle of the group (if this is even possible)
4. something i haven't thought of??
i see my options as follows
1. license the broadcasters with GMRS equipment broadcasting at 5W on the FRS channels, the receivers will have FRS radios.. this way they should be able to listen in on the organizers broadcasting instructions, traffic, diversions, etc
2. use MURS radios (which of course don't require licenses)
3. set up some sort of moving repeater at the middle of the group (if this is even possible)
4. something i haven't thought of??