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

June 20th 06, 01:23 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

On 19 Jun 2006 18:32:38 -0700, wrote:

wrote:

And just where do you get this CD-ROM in a deserted, destroyed building
after the catastrophe?

Clearly you are only skimming my posts rather than reading them.

Starting at the beginning:

1) Squad leader carries a mini-CDROM in his/her pocket. That's the
nucleus
for everything else. With luck, nothing else need be carried into
the field.

2) The CDROM would contain schematics and part numbers of everything
necessary
to forage to create a datalink.

3) SSB CB Radios (funny, my RS always carries the SSB CB radio as the
high end
model) would be one of several pieces of RF equipment
that could be foraged off the street (i.e. Radio Shack stores,
truck stops, etc).

4) Most new laptops carry 12V power input. Older ones don't. There
are plenty
of sources to forage a laptop from: Target, Walmart, and K-mart
come to mind
as well as Radio Shack.

5) The laptop, radio, and car are all at street level. People can
take plain old copper
wire and make a dipole or inverted Vee with it, hanging it from the
roof top. The only actual ground to antenna connnection comes
between the radio and the center of the dipole or inverted Vee.

Caught up now?

The Eternal Squire

You know, then again the idea doesn't want to know.
If they ( the first responders) find a working (unwet and
undamaged) CB radio, battery and antenna they could
just pick up the mic and TALK. That would would be
both cost effective and requires far less effort/training to
implement. It would also conform to the CB norm and other
gasp operators might be part of the assistance. There
may still be people working the REACT system.

For those that remember before CB became littered with
carriers and other flotsum and jetsum CB was considered
a very good tactical radio due to it's channelized character.
Since then portable amatuer HTs, FRS and GMRS radios
became available and reliable and share in that tactical
capability without the need for a 9ft whip.

Allison