My New 2 Way Radios...

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ultramegabob

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I posted a thread about 2 way radios a while back, and I have been making due with my FRS/GMRS radios, but lately I have been running into too many areas where other businesses are using the same frequencies, and the other day I had a troll that was scanning the channels and disrupting my communications with my helper when we were working on some parking lot lights. Today I went to Bestbuys and they had the eXRS radios I have been wanting to get on clearance, so I got them. I just put them on the charger and will have to spend some time reading the manual to learn all the functions, anyone on here used any of these yet?

http://www.trisquare.us/tsx300.htm
 
ultramegabob

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brian john said:
What is the range?
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they are supposed to match the quality of high end 1 watt GMRS radios, which is about a half mile to a mile in the city and several miles in the open country or over water (dont believe any of the radios that advertise 18, 25, 30 miles etc...) I believe the absolute max any hand held to hand held can reach is 6 miles due to the curvature of the earth. those claims of 30 miles etc. are in perfect conditions if you were talking to someone a from a mountain peak to another mountain peak.... the main advantage is supposed to be clarity of the transmission. I havent used them yet, I have to let them charge first....
 
brian john

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When you get them up and running do a fair test of range inopen area and in a building use. We have a heck of a time with most radios talking 12 floors.
 
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satcom

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ultramegabob said:
they are supposed to match the quality of high end 1 watt GMRS radios, which is about a half mile to a mile in the city and several miles in the open country or over water (dont believe any of the radios that advertise 18, 25, 30 miles etc...) I believe the absolute max any hand held to hand held can reach is 6 miles due to the curvature of the earth. those claims of 30 miles etc. are in perfect conditions if you were talking to someone a from a mountain peak to another mountain peak.... the main advantage is supposed to be clarity of the transmission. I havent used them yet, I have to let them charge first....
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you can easy get 30 or more miles on some of the repeaters. no problem
 
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My work radio is an FCC licensed Motorola set up on a repeater. I live about 35 miles from work and if I take the radio home with me and have it on during my drive in the morning it will find the repeater at about 20 miles out and I can start hearing conversations. I don't have enough power to transmit to the repeater at 20 miles, but I can transmit from 4-5 miles away.
 
ultramegabob

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my cell phone doesnt work inside alot of the buildings that I work in, and there are some areas that the towers are kind of far between out in the county in my area, it is nice to have a set of radios in the truck, besides, paying for cell phones for everyone on a crew is kind of silly when you can just use radios for site work.
 
brian john

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ultramegabob said:
my cell phone doesnt work inside alot of the buildings that I work in, and there are some areas that the towers are kind of far between out in the county in my area, it is nice to have a set of radios in the truck, besides, paying for cell phones for everyone on a crew is kind of silly when you can just use radios for site work.
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That's a big 10-4 buddy.

With 10-12 guys working on a power outage throughout a large building reliable communication is important to me, cells phones just do not cut it.
 
ptonsparky

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Radios? Cell Phones? We used arm jestures and strategically placed (hilltop & pivot tower) personnel on a long wire pull last week. Frustrating when you can see the guy but your cell phone has to hit distant towers for spotty at best connection. 40 mph wind noise doesn't help either.
 
ultramegabob

ultramegabob

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Does anyone still use the old school method during a wirepull of using your linemans and bangining on the conduit twice for pull, once for stop, and three times for we need to talk? (doesnt work well on underground runs):D
 
Fulthrotl

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ptonsparky said:
Radios? Cell Phones? We used arm jestures and strategically placed (hilltop & pivot tower) personnel on a long wire pull last week. Frustrating when you can see the guy but your cell phone has to hit distant towers for spotty at best connection. 40 mph wind noise doesn't help either.
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this is sorta off the radio topic, but i've found something far better than
voice communication for wire pulling.... i bought these the *day after* a
pull where i was on the tugger next to a chiller rack that was running... you
couldn't hear anything at all, so voice communications were pointless.

Will communicate up to 1500 feet between walls and up to 1.5 miles line of sight.
i've experemented, and this claim is valid.

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http://www.maxis-tools.com/product/triggers/

they run $1,500 a pair. it's worth it. both ends of the pull have full control
of the pull, and voice communication is not required. they are coded and
encrypted, so you won't get false control signals.

no hand signals, no missed frantic "stop, stop" over the radio... no beating on
the pipe, no screwed up pulls, nobody gets hurt.
 
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nakulak

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ultramegabob said:
Does anyone still use the old school method during a wirepull of using your linemans and bangining on the conduit twice for pull, once for stop, and three times for we need to talk? (doesnt work well on underground runs):D
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I did a pull a couple years ago at a munitions site (no radios allowed). the only way to pull was to run the rope accross a creek and through some woods to where our tugger (4 wheel dodge ram) was located, in the snow, at night (no lights, no line of sight between spoolers and pull man or pull man and tugger). amazingly enough, tug signals worked ok, but it was a hoot.
 
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