[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by helicom6

I was glad to find this thread, as I go into another cycling race season as an owner of a women's professional cycling team, security has become an even bigger factor to me and my support staff. Last season, 2015, we used 10 watt radios in the team vehicles, operating on freqs around 144 MHz, and handhelds operating on GMRS freqs around 150+. We realized during the canyon and mountain race routes that we didn't have very good coverage...not even the race radios that we are all issued from the race organizers were able to operate effectively in that environment. However, since my logistics man is a Harris Corporation radio man...we moved to first, sending a vehicle up the road before the caravan to set up as a feed station for our riders, and as a repeater station. We also had support staff further up the road with another radio and antenna as another repeater. This became a nightmare for many races, and seeing how my logistics man also works with certain agencies setting up P25 radio systems...we just switched to P25, and operated under the radar, as it were. If you have to get any radio for emergency use..P25 is the only way to go. My belated .02
Cheers!

That's why 18E's are the heat..... Imagine you must have comms, secure comms worldwide and oh, yeah, your lives depend on it.