RadioBanter - View Single Post - is an STA needed to transmit data on CB channel 40?

June 18th 06, 09:10 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

In article .com,
wrote:

What the feds want to do is to be able to communicate mil-spec digital
packets over low power links in the middle of a disaster-hit area
between squads of Guards deployed across a destroyed city.

They cannot assume that hams and ham equipment will be available, and
they do not want to carry heavy equipment into a city. They want to be
able to use equipment that they can readily commandeer from stores such
as Radio Shack.

E.S.-

With all due respect to your brother, this is an extremely unlikely
scenario. While a common AM CB radio might be modified to perform the
task, you aren't going to commandeer one from Radio Shack that a Guardsman
can adapt for such data transmission.

Just how heavy do you think a data radio would be? A unit as small as the
smallest CB could be designed to perform the function (and may be
off-the-shelf). In other words, such a data system MUST be carried in to
ensure it is going to work, and it won't be so "heavy" that each unit
can't have spares handy.

Fred