Hello Everyone, I just built a house in Nebo, KY. I have 3 other people in the family and more to come. My property has a lot of hills and trees and mud. i was wanting to use radios to keep in communication with everyone because our phone doesn't work other than our house. we have about 130 acres and more to come. can you tell me what I can do when it comes to radios in our families
Thank you
Well, I just googled 130 square acres. Says it's a little under 1/4 square mile. Seems to me you could put MURS mobile on a power supply on an outside antenna, and run around with MURS handhelds, and cover everything just fine. I'm thinking at 1/4 mile away from each other, most handhelds would hear each other. If not, the radio in the kitchen on an outside antenna should hear everyone just fine.
You could try FRS radios. Spend at least $50 each on two of them and see how they play. With FRS, (and any consumer two way really), the more you spend, the further they receive. So in other words, the better the range.
This link should give you some ballpark ideas on what it would cost you. If it was me, I'd forgo the $370 mobile and just get a used Motorola M1225 or CDM or whatever to use as a base. Shouldn't cost you more than $150. Reach out to the nearest ham radio club for help on an inexpensive base station antenna installation. Someone may have a 2 meter base antenna that would match well at 150 that they would give you for a very fair price. I'm in no way associated or endorse the vendor I linked to. Just googled MURS radios and this looked like a good link.
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