Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: SW or CB Mobil Radio: Legal? Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 18:16:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 997-9175} Lines: 54 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 354, message 3 of 8 In article arnor!uri@uunet.uu.net (Uri Blumenthal) writes: >Well, maybe I'm too bold, but I consider it as a sort of permission to >post some more stuff on this topic. Don't be shy. You're welcome here. > I need to have a reliable link between: > 1) My car and home. Radio is more convenient than > cellular phone for me. The distance could be > 50 - 75 miles (up to 100, I'd say), the area > has a lot of hills. The key here is reliable link. If you're doing business, you can apply for a business radio license and find some frequencies to use in the 30-50 range as well as 150-174, 450-470 and up. (All these numbers are megahertz.) You can also contact a communications reseller and rent both radios and space on a "community repeater" which will provide more reliable communications. If you're not a skilled radio hacker, this is a good bet since you'll have a communications solution tailored by professionals to your needs. Make sure you shop around as both quality of service and price will vary greatly. If you just want to talk to your wife, cellular or old style mobile telephone will do the trick and will be cheaper. Amateur radio is a complex means to an end. If you're not interested in the code and tech stuff, it's lots of work to gain access to a very limited subset of the spectrum. And both you and the party you're communicating with need to be licensed. Also, you're not allowed to do "business". > 2) The common CB connection. I'd like to be able to > receive usual CB reports on the road (well, like > those renown "smokey reports" :-). As well as to > broadcast the info I have. Just get a CB Radio and have at it. They can be had for under $100 these days, and can be instaslled with cigarette lighter cords and magnet mount antenna. As I was corrected earlier, you don't need a license, although you do need to follow the rules, which many individuals don't do. > 3) Access to the "road SOS channel" - I think it's > channel 9, which is constantly monitored by police, > so in case of real trouble you can call for help > (if you still can call, of course :-). Some police monitor 9 and some monitor 19, the trucker channel. Usually they post signs. Again, the CB mentioned above will do the trick cheaply. If I've made any more mistakes, I'm sure the net will point them out :-) :-). -- Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg