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Portable, Affordable, 10 Mile Coverage
Is there such a thing as a portable, affordable, two-way radio system
with 10 mile coverage or better? What about something that is slightly secure? Here's the need that is driving this: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. BTW, I don't know much about HAM radio, so please forgive my ignorance. |
Secure -- Well anytime you put something on the airways -- others can
tune in --- many with scanners hear all Ham radio would require all parties to have a Ham License - don't think this would work for you. But all about obtaining a Ham Ticket at URL: http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html The So Called "Personal Radio Services" are summarized at URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...54/radio2.html Only thing that comes to mind is GMRS -- see URL: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/per...generalmobile/ Pricey and you might have to build a repeater to get the range you want. -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "Google Mike" wrote in message om... Is there such a thing as a portable, affordable, two-way radio system with 10 mile coverage or better? What about something that is slightly secure? Here's the need that is driving this: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. BTW, I don't know much about HAM radio, so please forgive my ignorance. |
Secure -- Well anytime you put something on the airways -- others can
tune in --- many with scanners hear all Ham radio would require all parties to have a Ham License - don't think this would work for you. But all about obtaining a Ham Ticket at URL: http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html The So Called "Personal Radio Services" are summarized at URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...54/radio2.html Only thing that comes to mind is GMRS -- see URL: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/per...generalmobile/ Pricey and you might have to build a repeater to get the range you want. -- 73 From the Spurious Noise ';';;';x":.,";"' "Google Mike" wrote in message om... Is there such a thing as a portable, affordable, two-way radio system with 10 mile coverage or better? What about something that is slightly secure? Here's the need that is driving this: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. BTW, I don't know much about HAM radio, so please forgive my ignorance. |
On 29 Sep 2003 09:20:32 -0700, Google Mike wrote:
Is there such a thing as a portable, affordable, two-way radio system with 10 mile coverage or better? What about something that is slightly secure? - nuh uh! not according to the FCC! one cannot obscure the meaning of a message (IIRC, the only exception is satellite control?) Here's the need that is driving this: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. mike - get everyone licensed! study one day, then put the family in the car, go to the local VEC test, get 26 questions out of 35 multiple-choice questions correct, then go to Denny's and celebrate! a couple days later everyone's license will appear in the FCC's ULS and you can set up a base station and 2M comms in each car! doesn't have to cost a whole lot, either! BTW, I don't know much about HAM radio, so please forgive my ignorance. |
On 29 Sep 2003 09:20:32 -0700, Google Mike wrote:
Is there such a thing as a portable, affordable, two-way radio system with 10 mile coverage or better? What about something that is slightly secure? - nuh uh! not according to the FCC! one cannot obscure the meaning of a message (IIRC, the only exception is satellite control?) Here's the need that is driving this: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. mike - get everyone licensed! study one day, then put the family in the car, go to the local VEC test, get 26 questions out of 35 multiple-choice questions correct, then go to Denny's and celebrate! a couple days later everyone's license will appear in the FCC's ULS and you can set up a base station and 2M comms in each car! doesn't have to cost a whole lot, either! BTW, I don't know much about HAM radio, so please forgive my ignorance. |
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Zoran Brlecic wrote:
wrote: I can't really afford cell phone bills. I live near 5 families of relatives in South Carolina USA, each within 1 mile of me. Each morning and evening, I travel a long 40 mile road with no cell phone tower in sight -- zero coverage, even if I bought a cellphone. I would love to have a device that each of us keep in our cars, always turned on, as well as in our homes, and it would only provide communication among myself and my relatives. I would prefer to have something that could not be eavesdropped very easily, but I would take whatever I could get. Get a CB radio. mike - get everyone licensed! study one day, then put the family in the car, go to the local VEC test, get 26 questions out of 35 multiple-choice questions correct, then go to Denny's and celebrate! a couple days later everyone's license will appear in the FCC's ULS and you can set up a base station and 2M comms in each car! doesn't have to cost a whole lot, either! Yeah, that's what ham radio needs: more people with no clue what ham radio is, no desire to use it for amateur, technological, dxing or emergency service purposes, and whose only motivation is to save on cellphones. There's already a band in place for such purpose and it's called CB. 73 ... WA7AA And we wonder why ham radio is not growing. With sweet-talkers like you on the welcoming committee... Excuse me while I get back to my technological, dxing and emergency services work. mike -- Bunch of stuff For Sale and Wanted at the link below. laptops and parts Test Equipment 4in/400Wout ham linear amp. Honda CB-125S 400cc Dirt Bike 2003 miles $550 Police Scanner, Color LCD overhead projector Tek 2465 $800, ham radio, 30pS pulser Tektronix Concept Books, spot welding head... http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/4710/ |
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