Mounted search and rescue

["Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>]

FRS / GMRS is a good option for communications within the team for 
transmissions that don't need to go through primary SAR channels monitored 
by the CP and other teams. It can also be useful between teams for 
non-incident communications, assuming the teams are close enough to 
communicate using that method.

Jorene

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "irvin lichtenstein" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
> FRS and the higher powered GMRS operate in the 450 MHz range with analog 
> FM.
> Only individuals can obtain GMRS licenses, not associations or commercial
> users. The range is strictly line of sight and can be shortened by tees
> which absorb the signals.
>
> Check with your public safety agency to see what systems they use. You 
> want
> to be able to talk back to the search base and to others in the field. We
> used to call this communicating, now it is called interoperability.