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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From: "Dave Marthouse" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: 2-meter Antenna Challenge


> Tom,
>
> This brings to mind another idea.
>
> Most colleges have some sort of land mobile business radio systems in 
> place
> for security, maintenance etc.  Maybe you could get to know a few of the
> folks who maintain the radios as well as the higher ups in that department
> and see if you can mount the old Kenwood in a good place.  Then you can 
> use
> an ht with cross band capabilities to work through the kenwood to reach 
> the
> repeater in question.  This may be a bit far out but you never know unless
> you ask.
>
> Dave Marthouse N2AAM
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