If you took your personal vehicle to a disaster area, do you have a 2 meter mobile radio inside it so that you could do communications from your vehicle.
I do not keep my dual band mobile in my truck but if needed then I can easily put it on the passenger seat with a magnet mount antenna on the roof. When planning for long road trips I will often take my Amateur mobile and a CB radio.
In advance, Thank you everyon for your participation. This is being used as part of a study for Agencies and Non-Profits to help them determine if they should equip their facilities in advance, or take a chance on someone to show up with the correct equipment or not. It is difficult to explain to new people why an expense is necessary or not.
Yes for the last +50 years, started out with an old Motorola commercial rig converted it had a dyna motor
Me, too. First 2m FM mobile rig was an FMTRU-80D made by Motorola c. 1960 or maybe earlier. "Conversion" to 2m really only involved new crystals and very slight re-tuning. Vibrator power for RX, dynamotor power for the TX power amplifier. It was in the trunk, with a fat cable (about like a Python) running from the trunk to the dashboard for the control head, which had nothing more than an on/off switch, volume and squelch control. Complex programming! To program it, you'd get out of the car, open the trunk, remove the cover and change crystals. My little Plymouth Valiant with its 225 cid 6-cyl motor and stock alternator would almost stall if I transmitted while not moving. Actually, I think it did stall sometimes. Good times. And for the survey: "Yes," since 1968.
