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Message started by polski on 11/10/10 at 11:43:43

Title: Tall Pines Communication?
Post by polski on 11/10/10 at 11:43:43

I'm wondering what radios the marshals or time keepers use to radio in the stage times? I was thinking it would be very interesting to bring a transmiter? or a scanner? to listen in.

If someone knows it would be helpful.

Thank you.

PG

Title: Re: Tall Pines Communication?
Post by xrian on 11/10/10 at 15:18:08

We use Ham Radio so you would have to have a license to posses a transmitter.
Scanner is fine.
I'll leave it up to Ross if he wants to post the frequencies. Not my place.

Title: Re: Tall Pines Communication?
Post by jgardhouse on 11/10/10 at 15:39:31

xrian wrote on 11/10/10 at 15:18:08:

We use Ham Radio so you would have to have a license to posses a transmitter.

Actually, not quite.
You can be in possession of a transmitter/reciever for which you are not licensed.
You must be licensed to transmit.

But you should totally get your ham radio lic some time :)
Then when you help with events, you're already set for communications :) :D

Title: Re: Tall Pines Communication?
Post by C. Hamm on 11/22/10 at 21:26:01

It's bad enough having a stuck mic from a worker, but from a spectator . . . the horror . . . . the horror . . . .

Not the Pines or any rally I've been to, but some large events can get nuisance jammers on the frequency, so organisers for a multitude of reasons don't like to publish frequencies. It's pretty easy to figure out, however, when you're there.