Portable Radio Standards

I'm looking for a little help. My county is going to a new radio system and is assigning portables to each station. This is a good thing, no money coming out of our pockets, but they are not making sure every riding position has a portable. The system we have now allows us to purchase our own portables. My question is this, is there a NFPA standard, recommendation, or standard/recommendation from another source that we can cite for putting in a grant application.

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Permalink Reply by John on February 24, 2009 at 11:39am
The only thing I could think of would be to research it online, and to maybe check with the county you are in on any standards they may have on frequencies. As for a radio for each person on the apparatue as long as there is 1 radio for each crew of 2 members that should be plenty.
Permalink Reply by Oldman on February 24, 2009 at 12:28pm
The biggest selling point for a DHS grant is interoperability, especially if there are going to be different agencies involved. If you are working as a crew, you go, we go mentality, then one portable (maybe two) per crew is more than sufficient.

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