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Author:  skippy41 [ Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:02 pm ]
Post subject:  cab radios
can you just use your radios from car to car without an office or can you have a mobile office??? and let every driver talk to each other
Author:  mikeingalway [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:32 pm ]
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simple answer. YES :mrgreen:
Author:  rambo [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:47 pm ]
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I worked at an office where you could talk to the other driver's and it was a nightmare!. By the end of the night I had a headache!!.
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: cab radios
skippy41 wrote:
can you just use your radios from car to car without an office or can you have a mobile office??? and let every driver talk to each other

Surely half the time drivers speak to each other they are slagging other drivers off, so maybe an open channel might not be such a good idea. :wink:
Author:  skippy41 [ Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:26 pm ]
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OK I just wanted to confirm what I knew, I thought the law had changed, and that was you do not need a base, but could you set up a base with talk through so you could contact a driver who is out of rang in the car but could here you if it came through the base station.
Her indoors wants to come back driving but as I always have the land line diverted to the mobile and the car radio ranges from 2 miles to 18 depending on where I am, I would like to stay in touch to pass runs on
Author:  bill_datamaster [ Thu Apr 13, 2006 8:08 am ]
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Skippy

Your right, car to car wont give much range compaired to base to car. Just bear in mind, a talk through base is a repeater ie a radio that can receive and transmit at the same time normally on the same antenna so the normal little raido sitting on a power pack just won't work.

Bill
Author:  skippy41 [ Thu Apr 13, 2006 2:27 pm ]
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I have a massive power pack its a low ep925 and a motorola mc micro radio in the house, they are about 8 years old maybe older, what would I need for talk through the car radio is a yesu a small one about 1 inch thick by 5 inches deep with built in speeker works well
what do I need to set it all up Please
Author:  bill_datamaster [ Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:59 pm ]
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Skippy

Your existing base radio just wont work as a repeater so I can't tell you how to do it. Talk through bases don't come cheap and I recon there will be no change from £1,500. :-o Maybe you can find a second hand one and get it programmed up but they are not exactly common.

Bill
Author:  Eric the viking [ Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:34 am ]
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Bill Wrote:

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Your existing base radio just wont work as a repeater so I can't tell you how to do it. Talk through bases don't come cheap and I recon there will be no change from £1,500. Maybe you can find a second hand one and get it programmed up but they are not exactly common.


Do you not require a special type of RA license for this anymore then :?:

And is it not difficult to get :?:

Not that I can see why a cab operation would need or indeed want this :roll:

Regards Eric 8)
Author:  bill_datamaster [ Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:00 am ]
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Eric

I don't really know. I've never had the need to apply for it but a few of my customers already had this facility in place on their existing voice channel.

As far as I can see though, there's just a tick box on the application that askes if you require controlled talk-through.???

Bill
Author:  Scott AKA TMTLTH [ Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:17 pm ]
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buy a scanner to hear the other drivers, if your driver wants to hear and speak to other drivers on your firm tell him to buy a scanner
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