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  • RoadieRich@midwest.socialtoProgrammer HumorSounds great in theory
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn’t saying a lot.


  • The problem you’re going to encounter is that any radio system capable of covering your entire area is going to need some sort of license, either individual or group. You probably can’t require your volunteers to pay the FCC $35 for a GMRS license, and ham radio requires an exam, so that’s probably out, too.

    That pretty much only leaves business licenses. Yes, there is MURS, which is license free, and might work better than what I am assuming are Walmart FRS radios, but still runs the risk of communication failing when you need it.

    If I was in charge of a convention, I’d talk to the company that supplies your AV equipment about who to rent business radios from. They probably have recommendations. If you don’t have an AV company, you can Google for “radio rentals West Virginia”, there’s a few options. They can help you with all the licensing, and will provide all the radio hardware. This is not going to be cheap, but will probably end up being less expensive than trying to set up your own repeater, and all the associated licensing headaches.