Hello group, my name is Albert. I head a natiowide nonprofit missing child volunteer investgation organization that is in dire need of an effective reliable two way system, locally and nationwide.
We had used NEXTEL, they met all our needs EXCEPT, they did not have talk around capabilities, so no cell site no communications. But they went poof. Prior to that we used Motorola with repeaters. Very expensive but again if out if the area no radio.
My investigative staff is spread all over the US with HQ being in So. Cal. I liked nextel because we could reach out nationwide. But for local team operations now we have to result to over the counter 2 way family radios which are NOT effective and no range.
I’m going crazy trying to come up with a communication solution. Oh, cell phones? Forget it. We need range and all speak to everyone at the same time. WD are mission critical, life and death.
Does any one have a suggestion??? HELLLLLLLP, please.
Do you mean you need a wide area, effective and reliable comms system that is also cheap? Cheap is the problem. There are plenty of ways to now do what you want - you could have local area repeaters - vehicle or trailer mounted, and then network them to interface with other mobile ‘nodes’ in the system. If your need is truly nationwide, and as in American ‘nationwide’ compared to ‘UK’ nationwide, then it’s going to be complex and expensive, but technology wise, perfectly doable. In the UK, all Police, Ambulance and Fire services, plus a few more specialist ones all use a common system that does allow interagency communications, and your type of usage would fit within it’s framework. You would fund the radios, they’d programme them, and then they would work.
I assume you are in the US? Do they not have something similar?
We are in the U.S., and cheap is critical we do not charge for our services, mostly comes out of our own pocket. Truly nationwide is our need, I have people in every state and most major cities and we need communications. Also we do local search and rescue and need com for that also… sigh.
I am not familiar with an existing nationwide system, last I knew of was nextel and Verizon… I’ll look into it further. Thanks. If anyone knows of a US network like that let me know.