Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: judice@kyoa.enet.dec.com (L. J. Judice (DTN: 323-4103 FAX: 323-4533)) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: re: Two way radios in Equipment Installation Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 89 16:54:43 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 224, message 11 of 11 Two way radios REALLY help for this kind of work. A couple of years back we built a large LAN and a terminal network at a very large (2,000,000 sq ft) plant. We used Motorola MT series radios in the VHF band. They were very rugged and always reliable. The only problem we had in terms of penetration was talking from the computer room to some outlying location. Two solutions would be UHF (which we considered but never had time to demo), or an inexpensive base station radio, with antenna on the roof. Uniden (Regency) and others make these (see ads for Scanner World in Popular Communications magazine). Motorola also has a line of more compact radios, and I believe I saw a pair advertised in the Jensen Tool Catalog. By all means consider a radio system - it really helped turn drudgery into fun! /ljj (Standard disclaimers apply - I don't work for any of the above, but I've used their products).