The fucking Cal-Fire prepardness brochure instructs people to keep handheld radios and scanners you hack.

It isnt in thos areas tho

You dont have wildfires and hundreds of thousands of square miles of rough terrain where you live so I wouldnt expect you to actually understand.

No I don't, just have an understanding of radio waves and technological change.

Evidently you dont

For cellular to work even just in the shasta area and provide the same coverage that HAM operators provide to emergency services (for free as covered in your own source) they would have to have a cell tower on every mountaintop and in every valley throughout the shasta, sisikyou, ashlands, and grants pass area

Cellular has a higher range compared to those low power HAM sets.

All of which comes at the direct expense of the state

Those arent low power HAM sets

What wattage are they running?

And frequency?

Those arent little radio sets in peoples garages

Radio frequencies is covered in the source you cited

Or did you not read your own citation <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

Moving on, your entire premise was "The whole issue is that the Californian government cannot keep paying the maintenance costs for these repeaters" which has been thoroughly and violently debunked by the citation YOU used. Now you have moved the goal post to "achktually its better if AT&T and Verizon get those sweet state dollars instead of continuing to use the infrastructure already in place thats free for us to use."

It doesn't show the wattage, so we have no range

Average range of your cell towers is 40 miles AND more people can use them..

40 miles

For that individual cell company

40 miles, of the hundreds of THOUSANDS of square miles that is the shasta, sisikyou, ashland, and grants pass area alone

Which are still going to have the same issues without the repeaters?

Because the repeaters in place are already there and provide sufficient coverage

The 40 miles was pulled from around town power, out in the sticks, it's going to be different

Repeaters which can be replaced with higher power cell towers? Enabling more access to the network?

The newer HAM radio towers can communicate with each other and satellites and have ranges of hundreds of miles

You have no argument

Quit while you are behind

Which we would need to replace to implement anyway..

No

So while we're at it, why not replace it with a more accessible system?

Which more people can use?

Which HAM radio operators have replaced themselves

Making it more cost effective?

And more effective overall?

But its not more cost effective

When comparing accessibility, yes it is.

That infrastructure is provided to the state for FREE

MORE people can access the system

I realize you are European

And use it.

> Many of these repeaters have been in public safety use for decades.
From the source as well