Commercial match for PRC77

[cranetruck]

Looking for a low cost commercial radio, that I can use to communicate with my PRC77.
Any suggestions?
TIA

 

[B3.3T]

The PRC-77 freq. range, 30-75 Mhz, is still within the military restricted range with a small portion in the 6 meter Ham range. That requires a license.

 

[ZiggyO]

Get some of the vhf low band radios that were used for firefighting--- if you get something like the kenwood mobile land vhf low-band radios, they are programmable and will cover the same range (observe all licensing requirements)...... They will work with the prc-77, rt524, rt246, rt68, etc-- you will notice though that the squelch tone on the mil radios is not standard-- not an issue so long as you set the radios to carrier squelch instead of tone..... Also, the mil stuff is wideband so you will need to have that set on your commercial rigs (may pose a legal issue though)............

Z

 

[Chief_919]

Not legally. Unless you have an amateur radio license.

done outside the law at best you can get a half-assed solution. Any handheld will be tuning a more narrow bandwidth FM so the 77 will way overmodulate for the handheld and the audio on the handheld will be low. The squelch on the 77 uses a non-standard tone not found on most handhelds so you have to run it with the squelch off and listen to static all the time.

 

[m38inmaine]

I have and use Motorola MT1000 low band portable radio's, they are cheap and work well. They also have the 150Hz tone needed to open the "new squelch" on the mil sets.