Mounted search and rescue

[Louis <trlrider2@trailriding-texas.us>]

Just another quick note,

1) A group license is not require to own, operate and maintain a GMRS
repeater!

2) Personally, sitting next to me, are: a 440 mhz ham portable repeater,
a GMRS portable repeater. A 450 mhz range portable repeater is in the
process of being built, licensed to 2 organizations that I work with.
that I maintain and keep available for whatever event may require them
to be use!  All have the ability to be set-up quickly, operate on or off
the grid, and provide reliable and long term communications. There is
also parts and pieces laying here, for another GMRS system that will be
fixed at a location that can service 2 state parks in the area! 

Why, the trunking systems fail and simple communications are needed!
And Nextel (or similiar systems) are a joke in rural Texas, Oklahoma and
New Mexico!

I am a licensed in both the Amateur and GMRS segments!

Louis

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 00:37 -0400, IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN wrote:
> Most of the grandfathered community repeaters belonged to REACT teams
> that have gone the way of unfunded NGO’s or lost their sites to
> cellular, PCS, or news.
> 
> Several of the Amateur and REACT units were hung off the TV towers
> around here, until the TV stations needed the space for electronic 
>