[FedCom] FRS military traffic Bosnia & Herzegovina
David
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Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:34:27 -0400
When something like that happened to me, it turned out that I had a shorted
PL-259 connector on the mobile. Braid was touching the center conductor in a
cheap crimp (not soldered) affair.
Dave
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From: "Steve Douglass" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] FRS military traffic Bosnia & Herzegovina
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> I noticed on a recent trip to Cannon AFB in Clovis New Mexico that the
> guards at the gates were using UNIDEN GMRS radios to communicate with each
> other. By monitoring those frequencies it was clear they were using them
> for personal comunications and were saying things that would not at all be
> allowed on a military net.
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> Range wise? Personally using both VHF and GMRS UHF gear of equal wattage I
> find my UHF radios do much better. In fact , I can talk further on my 5
> watt GMRS HT than I can my 25 watt mobile in most circumstances.
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> -Steve
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> >Strange, since when was the range of FRS radios greater than a two watt
> >VHF Bendix/King PRC-127!!! ???
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> >>From: ed
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> >>Reply-To: [email protected]
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> >>To: [email protected]
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> >>CC: [email protected]
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> >>Subject: [FedCom] FRS military traffic Bosnia & Herzegovina
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> >>Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:22:16 -0400
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> >>so much for secure radios...
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> >>-ed
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>>http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=8692&ar
chiv
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> >>Soldiers in Bosnia scour catalogs, PX in search of better two-way
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> >>radios
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> >>By Sean E. Cobb, Bosnia bureau
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> >>Stars & Stripes, European edition, Wednesday, June 26, 2002
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> >>EAGLE BASE, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- For soldiers on patrol with
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> >>the Bosnian peacekeeping mission, the best way to stay in touch
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> >>starts with the post exchange.
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> >>That's where soldiers are buying up two-way radios designed for
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> >>civilian families on ski slopes or at the mall. The commercial
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> >>two-way radios are smaller, more powerful and more reliable than
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> >>Army-issue hand-held radios ...
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