John:
The EOC is on the other side of campus from my office. As I said,
cross-banding can work, but I'm not sure about the other more sophisticated
types of arrangements we have discussed so far.
But, that's ok; we're all just brain-storming here.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: 2-meter Antenna Challenge
> How far is the EOC from your office? I actually know of a local town with
> at
> the police station, a backup antenna for their UHF dispatch. What is that
> UHF antenna? Well, it sure looks like a diamond X50, and, it so happens to
> look like one on an analyzer. He was able to put a duplexer inline so it
> was
> still the backup for the dispatch radio, and run a cable to his EOC so
> it's
> also now used for 2 meters in there. Highly unlikely I know, but again
> something worth looking in to just in case.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: 2-meter Antenna Challenge
>
>
>> For some emergency response exercises we did for my Sociology Of
>> Disasters
>> class a few years ago, I actually cross-banded to a Kenwood TMD700 in the
>> University's EOC from my office, and it worked fine.
>>
>> The only issue was that someone had to turn on the rig at the EOC, and
>> remember to turn it off when we were done.
>>
>> One thing I did think of, though, was whether I could somehow do remote
>> access from my office to the EOC, and then do cross-banding from there,
>> so
>> that is rattling around in my mind as well.
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
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