Posted: 9/22/2009 5:44:16 PM EDT
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Hi guys. I'm still a newbie ham and have a quick question.
At work we are building a mobile disaster response comm suite to sell to small police departments and government agencies. Among various public service band LMRs we are also including a CB and a Kenwood dual band HAM radio. We are tying them together with our VoIP system so a single operator can control all of the radios they need in a nasty situation. My question is, if I want to test the audio quality of the ham radio by calling a local repeater, is that against the rules because I'm getting paid to do it? I'm obviously not going to say or do any business over the radio, but I am getting paid to build this suite. What say you all? |
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nothing(that i know of) would keep you from talking on a ham radio as long as you have a license. just because your at work doesnt change that. your just a ham using equipment. Not so. There was a thread last week about a similar situation. Fact is, if you're on someone's payroll, and the transmission is in any way work related, it's a violation. |
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Thanks for the help guys.
Another idea I had was to do a check with my FT60 and a couple dummy loads. In our metal building I doubt the signal would get very far. I'll probably do it when I'm clocked out just to be safe. I'm not going to do anything crazy, just a test count to make sure the audio levels coming into the VoIP router are good. |
......Can you provide a link to more information about this or is it to early in the development stages yet?
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Its a little early, and I live in AL now not IA (need to change that dang thing)
Its pretty simple really. We're trying to get rid of the proprietary radio control hardware most other companys use and make it all software driven. We've done this with .mil radios for years and recently got asked by another part of our company if we can do something with their commercial/civilian suite.. We can currently plug into any radio that has external access to its audio in, audio out, and PTT. Basically, if it has a mic/speaker jack or a handset jack we can integrate it. |