Hello All,
My Name Is Rod Gross. I Am a Vol. Firefighter/Communications Guy, For Howe Vol. Fire Dept. We Are A Small Town FD Located about 50 mile's north of Dallas, Tx.
I am a Amateur Radio Operator aka "ham". I Have Presented a Plan to my Dept. to Revamp
Our Dispatch Desk. All We Have is a 25 watt Mobile, And a 1/4 wave ant, for dispatch.
This works fine, Until we loose power or if our repeater goes Down, which it does! then we Have to resort to Our County Fire Channel, that we are dispatched on. Or go Radio to Radio,
as you know this doesn't go very far!!
They Are on Board to Let me Setup Better Dispatch Station, But we Have A limited Amount
of Money in our Equipment fund, And with Older Apparatus, we Are Dipping into it Alot.
The Member's Love My Idea.... But We Cant Afford to Buy New Communication's Radios.
So I Am Asking Around to See if I Could Get A Couple of VHF BASE Radio's Donated, If Possible? I Have Gotten A Base Antenna And Feedline Donated, Which Was a great Help!
If you Have Anything like this you would like to Donate, We can Provide a Tax Write off, as we are a Non Profit Org. Howevfd.org
I Can be Reached by email at..... hvfd22@gmail.com Thank You! And Stay Safe!
Sincerely,
Rod Gross