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DECT 6 runs on lower frequency. Definitely has better range.

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Tony Hwang
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Umm, no... A busy channel is a busy channel... Even if you set a different selective calling "privacy code" you will still experience interference if you are trying to transmit on a channel someone else is using even if the group using the channel is on a different "privacy code" than the one you are trying to use...

FMRS and GMRS only have a set number of channels, the permutations you speak of are fictional, as a channel that is inundated with users in your area will make it all but impossible for you to use the same channel...

~~ Evan

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Evan

Hmm... To get a 25 mile range you would need an FCC license to be operating a high power repeater or several lower power remote sites, either way that is a lot of money for the equipment...

~~ Evan

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Evan

My vhf repeater at work is on top of a 14 story building on a hill. My

5-watt H-T's can talk to each over pretty much anywhere in a 30 mile circle. My stone-age system is more dependable than the megabuck 800-mhz trunked system that all the local public safety agencies are using.

As to OP's problem- I'd just string a wire. Find burial-rated cable, make a slit with a flat shovel, shove the wire in, and stomp it closed. If he can't find real Ma Bell wire, the stuff for outdoor lights should work okay. Only problem will be crossing any paved areas- if you can't poke a stick of pipe under them, you have to find some way to go around or over them. Maybe get Ma Bell to install a new number out there, and then cancel it a month later, and jumper it over to the house line.

The pre-paid cell is probably the most painless solution, if (and it is a big if), there is coverage inside the shop.

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aemeijers

UH Actually runs on a very high frequencey

Reply to
LouB

Go to Walmart get a cheap ($19) DECT phone made by Uniden. Try it. No Joy? Bring it back (in less than 45 days).

Reply to
LouB

Hmmm, Not really lower than 2 or 5GHz phones. 1.9GHz thayt is.

Reply to
Tony Hwang

No, lower prequency is correct Worldwide DECT standars is 1800/1900 mhz - North America is DECT6.0 - running at 1920/1930mhz. Significantly lower frequency than the older common5.8ghz, but higher than the old 900mhz

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clare

Perhaps he should get one of those pendants or bracelets that a frail or elderly or handicapped person wears. Press a button when you have a fall and can't get up, or (heaven forfend) a heart attack, or... and an alarm goes off in the hq. If the victim doesn't answer the phone, the hq will call the designated person (you?), and if they don't answer, the police or fire dept.

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Higgs Boson

FRS is a good choice if both structures are wood. If either is aluminum sided, the performance is less.

I went to visit a friend one time. He's a machinist, and works in an over grown pole barn wtih aluminum siding. I couldn't talk from the parking lot to his station, though when I stepped in it was fine.

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Stormin Mormon

I've also encountered cross talk. Worse, at malls.

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Stormin Mormon

Please note, the "privacy" codes provide no privacy. They are a low tone which opens the squelch. You can transmit on 1-30 and someone with a cheap set on ch 1 can hear everything you say.

Try it... set one radio to 1-30 and other one to 1-0, and talk back and forth. The no code 1-0 can hear everything.

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Stormin Mormon

The ones in stores, there are 14 FRS channels. And 22 channels in the GMRS band, which contains the first 14 which are FRS. So, that's 8 exclusive to GMRS.

You're right, most people have no clue that the GMRS channels need a license from FCC. License from FCC. Does it cost money? What's your first guess? Yes, or no?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

With good Motorola FRS, the ones I tested got 0.7 miles from "two mile" walkies. You're right about mountains, etc.

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Stormin Mormon

"up to" like my two mile walkies that did 0.7 miles?

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

That is what we have here in the west. Horizon to horizon line of sight. I have some Motorola commercial job grade radios, and the Midlands do everything they will do. We've done seven miles with clarity on dry Pleistocene lake beds.

And surely, you know that 300' is far less than the 2-3 miles that can be expected even of the cheap walkie talkie radios.

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Steve

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Steve B

Umm, no... A busy channel is a busy channel... Even if you set a different selective calling "privacy code" you will still experience interference if you are trying to transmit on a channel someone else is using even if the group using the channel is on a different "privacy code" than the one you are trying to use...

FMRS and GMRS only have a set number of channels, the permutations you speak of are fictional, as a channel that is inundated with users in your area will make it all but impossible for you to use the same channel...

~~ Evan

Then, all you do is pick another channel and go. It's really simple. I have actually done it. Many times. Many many times. If one channel is busy, you go to another. I fail to see your point.

Steve

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Steve B

Wow......the earth might get hit by an asteroid tomorrow too. Think I'll go eat a couple bottle of aspirins.

Reply to
tom

If only for emergencies, ANY cell phone will work. Even deactivated ones (presuming they're charged) can still contact 911.

Reply to
HeyBub

Any old cell phone will dial 911.

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LSMFT

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