[BC] 26 Mhz RPU/IFB

[Blake Bowers]

26 Mhz stations are pretty hard to find. While there is a lot of 30-50 mhz 
gear out there, very little commercial LMR type equipment available in the 
area below 30 Mhz.

And only LMR equipment in the 150-174 and 450-512 bands are being 
narrowbanded.  Low band, 800, HAM, and a few handfuls of services such as 
GMRS in those two bands are NOT affected at all.  Low band equipment does 
NOT need to be replaced, and can chug merrily along.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Bosscher" <tom at bosscher.org>

>  Tim,
>    There are all kinds of low band transmitters out there almost for
> the taking. I think we are limited to 1`00  watts TPO, and look on Ebay
> for a Micor of GE Master II. I don't know if they still run it, but Paul
> Jellison ran a 26 MHz 24/7 from the WLW transmitter site. The free
> banders gave up trying to talk around it. As long as 35 years ago, we
> had a 26.43 Mhz 2 way at WOOD, Grand Rapids, and we had sever hassle
> from the free-banders then. But, if you use it as an IFB, who cares.
> Keep a good blower on it and run it 24/7. You also might find some lo
> band Qunitron paging transmitters.
>     Hang loose, in 2 years, everything in 2 way has to be narrow banded
> and the equipment will be tossed out with the trash.
>
>     Roll your own. The equipment is so cheap you could buy 4
> transmitters, and get 2 channel elements and go for it.
>