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School radios, multiple different units

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norcalscan

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I installed a 5 site Linked Capacity Plus system for a large school district several years ago.
;) Spot on reply, but definitely on the other opposite of the spectrum (ha! pun) from yard duty on FRS radios. I would have loved playing on a system like that.

Just to reiterate OP's original request for the sake of the thread, since even I got sidetracked into thinking he was asking to fix school comms. He has 6 different schools, each with their own radio "solution", and he was looking for a single radio that could do all 6 sites in one radio load, so he doesn't have to carry 6 radios. It sounds like just his problem, the schools aren't complaining about comms, nobody else seems to have the need to operate between sites (yet). He just needs to find a radio for himself that can likely do it all, as well as get the programming info from each site and get it into his new radio. But of course, once you peel off the first layer of the onion, there's a lot more.

Refocusing on that, this is likely a 2-3 hour billable job at a radio shop, take all 6 radios in, request them to read each radio and create a report of what's programmed in them. What you do with that info next is up to you, either have the radio shop get you a radio that can do all 6 sites, or share here or you can message me directly, and we'll likely point you to a dual-band DMR-capable radio to buy, the software and the cable, and you can play from there.
 

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With hindsight this would have been a great use for network radios. All schools have decent wifi coverage nowadays, so they could easily be linked, but schools never want to spend money.
Yeah, I'm sure it'll work great at the far end of the sports field, or slightly off the property, or during a power failure...
 

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Same thing with clever repeaters unless you battery back them up - and that makes a big price difference too. However - I take your point.
 

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Day Wireless installed ours with an East and west stand-alone repeater system, on different freqs and slots/TG and several simplex for custodian/ non repeater use. But the district owns it and the license. I would highly recommend a professional appraisal and quote and or bid. Two comprehensive HS’ , four MS and several elementary schools along with probably 40 bus routes.
 
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