Together with our local friends I kindly cooperate with Civil Defense and Fire Protection non profit organisations.
My cooperation with ADF is at radio communications level, repeater maintenance, staff training on radio use, etc. during training and prepardness season and net control during fire season.
Repeater at the picture is located in an elevated position at almost 1000m asl to cover all our county on VHF 152MHz band (FM analog/DMR hybrid). We also operate on the severely interfered 80MHz analog band to contact the authorities, but we definetly use the reliable 152MHz for operations.
This is the estimated coverage from HT users at street or ground level with 90% reliability required:
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