Mobile radios

Hello brokenspoke. If you use hounds with more than one person hunting, its a must to use radios. At least those who use running hounds that can get out of range quickly.
I see you are from Missouri. Where abouts are you located? I'm in northeast MO. See ya, MOyotehunter
 
broke most of us use marine radios. we have our own channel and no skip at all and good range. 20 miles plus most the time.

Vargy
 
Most bear hunters round here use Ham radio's. it's fairly cheap and easy to get the lic. $10 or so for 10 years. plus, once you get your license you can use the repeaters, if everything is working i can talk in 5 states from the house. my truck radio (55 watts)was $200 antenna and all. the lic. is good nation-wide, and the signal will get outta places where your cell-phone is worthless. search "aesham.com" they have the best prices that i've found. or stop at your Radio Shack, they'll set you up. tj
 
Yeah I don't believe we are supposed to use the Marine radios on land. But there are general public use channels. Living in the Midwest the only thing that uses a Marine radio is on the Mississippi river. As long as you stay off the emergency channel and coast guard channel, your not bothering anything anyway. I have a ham radio but I can't transmit on the ham freq. because I don't have a licence. But its fun to listen to people talk on the Ham frequencies. I also listen to storm spotters that are about an hour and a half west of here. The storms that go though there normally go though there first. The Ham freq. my have to be the way to go if the FCC desides to crack down on Marine Radio use. Talk to ya later, MOyotehunter
 
Guys, i'm no expert with ham radio, i've had my lic for about 3 years, wish i'd got it 25 years ago. i live in WV and from my house i can hit 3 different repeaters 100%. one is a linked repeater with a total of 10 machines in 3 states. from what i've heard/read you can hit at least 2 repeters from any location in the US. (with 35 watts+) i don't use the repeaters much, but it sure is nice to know they are there if needed. never know when something will happen, someone sick/hurt/snake-bit, vehicle trouble, etc. i've heard of the fcc confiscating vehicles, guns, atvs', now and then you'll hear of jail time, rare but it can happen. search "amateur radio".
 
Yup won't hunt without anymore. Saves lots of headaces when the dogs are headed towards somewhere they are not supposed to be. Here in Minnesota you cannot use a marine band while hunting coyotes. Says so right on the permit.
 
MO, what you have there a Redbone? not sure about trailhound, i've used Icom radios, they're tough. my hand-helds cost $100 each or so. my truck radio was $140, plus antenna. mine is 55 watts, high-power. no static or other noise, once you go to a ham radio you'll never turn on the CB again. a dnr guy listening to us last winter said we had better radios than he did. you can recognize your friends voices, from 20 miles away. "line of sight plus 10%" without using re-peaters. now and then you'll find em on ebay.
 
no thats not a red bone!! that is a running hound and bred to run coyotes it is part july and part walker running hound.

Vargy
 
Yeah the Ham radios are very powerful. Like I mentioned before I have a Ham radio but can't transmit on the ham frequencies because of no ametuer licence. Once again this isn't legal either but we modified the hams so they will transmit on the Marine frequencies. We have the Icom 2200. We also have the Icom T2h handheld. They are awesome built radios. I talked 25 miles on the 5 watt setting from our house antenna, about 40 feet in the air.
And you are right, once you get away from the CB's you'll never go back.

The hound in the pic is a coyote hound. Its a July bred hound. Probably haven't heard of them, just a little different strain of running hound. I placed 4th at a little field trial about a month and a half ago. Talk to ya later, MOyotehunter
 
MO i have 2 icom 2100's, one as base, one mobile. also have a couple of T2H's. yep, i used mine illegal for a season or so. me and 2 of my buddies bought the test-book, studied for about 2 weeks and took the test. all 3 of us made over 85%. you only need 70% to pass, i think? may have changed it? the book has the exact question "word-for-word" multiple choice questions. one of my guys was 14 or 15 at the time. all of us passed, no sweat. you can also take the test on-line for practice-only. search "qrz". the license cost us $10, really that's just for the volunteers to show-up and give the test. like i said before, i wish i'd had my lic. when i was 16.

good looking dog, i've heard of July's. i'll talk to you about them later.
 
I know of one bunch of local guys that rented a frequency. the guys i hunt with have a main channel, and 3 or 4 others if things need to change. on 2-meter we can use anything between 144.000 and 148.000, i guess that's 4000 different channels. very seldom do we hear other traffic. lots of ways to add a PL tone, off-set. pretty neat and cheap too. other guys are going to 6-meter, 440, and can set up their own repeater from their mobile. super neat.
 
Here in S Africa we have a market flooded with radios, but my expierience is BE CAREFUL as many claim to be good for ranges up to X and are not half of that. On our calling sweeps of our farm we cover 16,000 hectares, and radios at night are important, most are not worth the money. I have a MOTOROLA set no, and they work good with a base station. Sets here cost about R800 each for a good one ( $130-00).
 
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