RE: radios

["Tom Waters" <tom@tomwaters.net>]

The Spectra is a great choice.  A little pricey even used, but hey, RW
services have all the bucks, right? Hehehe

The Syntor X9000 series of Motorola radio (predecessor to the Spectra
line) can be found on ebay or from other good re-furbishers and the
800mhz models go for very cheap.  The Syntor is a much heavier radio
(about 25-30 lbs for the "drawer unit" ) but can be mounted remotely,
has a very nice alpha-numeric control head, and commercial adaptors are
available to interface them into RW avionics / ICS systems from several
companies. If you have the weight available, you can have a dual-band
syntor custom made so you have 1 control head, and push a button to
switch between 800mhz and either VHF or UHF (sorry, no tri-band
available) AND control an external siren/pa, if your ship is so
equipped. You may even be able to add a mini-repeater, so you take your
walkie with you to the scene, and have full wattage output power, by
transmitting to the radio in the ship which then  re-transmits to your
base/hosptial all of your transmissions.

 I can be contacted off the list (tom@tomwaters.net) for some of this
info if you need.

Happy Flying!

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: flightmed-admin@flightweb.com
[mailto:flightmed-admin@flightweb.com] On Behalf Of Harleydog
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 15:25
To: flightmed@flightweb.com
Subject: radios


Hey Mark.

We have 800 MHz on board our EC135.  We use a NAT control head with a
Motorola Spectra 800 MHz radio (mounted remotely with the other radios).
It works fine with the local fire/rescue's trunked 800 systems - same
range as our VHF radios.  Don't know the weight but I'm quite sure it is
less than 50 lbs.  It was installed by Metro Aviation in Shreveport, LA.

Good luck

Laramie Dixey, RN, NREMT-P
Flight Nurse - Life Air Rescue
Shreveport, LA


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Young" <myoung@montrose.net>
To: <flightmed@flightweb.com>
Cc: <coems@egroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: unsubscribe me


> Let's Change the subject here. Our state (Colorado) is moving to 800 
> MHz Digital trunked radio (800 DTRS). At this time Wulfsberg is the 
> only manufacturer that I know of the does 800 DTRS that meets APCO 25 
> standards. The price is about $45K and the weight is about 50 lbs by 
> the time you get all done. Now take off you heart monitor, IV pumps 
> and make the pilot loss a few pounds and you are in good shape. 
> Understand we are at high altitudes and every ounce counts for what 
> some of our services do. I have heard of some who used handhelds (UTAH

> Olympics), but the same laws that prohibit cellphones will apply to 
> handhelds. Same band, same technology and 800 DTRS puts out 9 times 
> the power so the possibility for interference is much greater than 
> cellphones. The other issue is that our system reuses frequencies to a

> large extent and interference is great when you are at higher 
> altitudes and at some point becomes unusable, the same as cellphones.
>
> So what are people out there doing? CAAMS also has some prohibitions 
> against cellphones as well for that same reasons as the FCC.
>
> Mark Young
> Western RETAC, Colorado
>
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