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JGarcia · 07-02-2006, 13:10

If you have the patience of a Saint (like me) you can get the 126 to work for you. Its a very finnicky thing.

You've got to love a ten grand a copy hand held radio. How many dummy cords is that going to have? First time one gets lost I guess the entire battalion will be out looking for it. The little Marconi intra squad radios have a range of less than 500M, and they are $800 a copy. You can't even fix them, if they break you throw them away. At least thats the supply code in the fedlog. You could buy a heck of a radio for $800 a copy.

Communications is always something you can bring up at an AAR in the improve category. And I suppose in my lifetime it always will be.

There has got to be something sitting on a shelf somewhere that would work just fine. But of course, you always have to have a study first before you can go out and identify what you need, and then bla, bla bla.

I work as a Security Contractor, the client is an Agency, part of that agency pays grants. One of the grants was for a 'study' after hurricane katrina to examine the communications problem in a disaster. The amount of money they paid out for the study was more than enough to buy a substantial amount of hand held or vehicle communications stuff. Guess how many radios the study provided? ZERO. So, now a new hurricane season is upon us, and there are brand new, state of the art headquarters facilities with walls covered by 52" flat screen monitors, and fancy whiz bang gadgets. But no new radios for the police, fire, or national guard to communicate on.

Stupid is as stupid does. Whose ass do we have to kick?

No wonder people buy/use those FRS radios.

I vote we call that harris radio the : JAYTRASH not because I know anything about it, but JTRS, reminds me of (and I am dating myself here) the old TRS-80 radio shack computer you see in museums. It was affectionately referred to as the Trash 80. So I saw JTRS and thought Jaytrash. But if it does all it claims to do, I like it. But I think they should field it with the APCO 25 software installed.

Some terrible day in the future we will need commo between military/law enf.

A link to more stuff about FCS and FCS of different countries as well: http://www.armada.ch/06-2/complete_06-2.pdf

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JGarcia Guerrilla Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: San Miguel, CA Posts: 407	If you have the patience of a Saint (like me) you can get the 126 to work for you. Its a very finnicky thing. You've got to love a ten grand a copy hand held radio. How many dummy cords is that going to have? First time one gets lost I guess the entire battalion will be out looking for it. The little Marconi intra squad radios have a range of less than 500M, and they are $800 a copy. You can't even fix them, if they break you throw them away. At least thats the supply code in the fedlog. You could buy a heck of a radio for $800 a copy. Communications is always something you can bring up at an AAR in the improve category. And I suppose in my lifetime it always will be. There has got to be something sitting on a shelf somewhere that would work just fine. But of course, you always have to have a study first before you can go out and identify what you need, and then bla, bla bla. I work as a Security Contractor, the client is an Agency, part of that agency pays grants. One of the grants was for a 'study' after hurricane katrina to examine the communications problem in a disaster. The amount of money they paid out for the study was more than enough to buy a substantial amount of hand held or vehicle communications stuff. Guess how many radios the study provided? ZERO. So, now a new hurricane season is upon us, and there are brand new, state of the art headquarters facilities with walls covered by 52" flat screen monitors, and fancy whiz bang gadgets. But no new radios for the police, fire, or national guard to communicate on. Stupid is as stupid does. Whose ass do we have to kick? No wonder people buy/use those FRS radios. I vote we call that harris radio the : JAYTRASH not because I know anything about it, but JTRS, reminds me of (and I am dating myself here) the old TRS-80 radio shack computer you see in museums. It was affectionately referred to as the Trash 80. So I saw JTRS and thought Jaytrash. But if it does all it claims to do, I like it. But I think they should field it with the APCO 25 software installed. Some terrible day in the future we will need commo between military/law enf. A link to more stuff about FCS and FCS of different countries as well: http://www.armada.ch/06-2/complete_06-2.pdf __________________ National Guard Marksmanship Training Center Last edited by JGarcia; 07-02-2006 at 13:57.
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