Radios

[Twilight2000v3MM]

I can only give you input from a civilian poitn of view.

Our police radios (800 mhtz), now digital, have great reception and range IF you have a repeater closeby. If it's radio to radio (no repeater), even in a flat city, at BEST you may get 8-10 blocks with bad reception. I can only imagine that with big structures, hills, ect, this range would be cut in half easy. We used a specific channel for SWAT ops which is radio to radio and the range is no that great - like I said at best 8 blocks.

FYI - Battery life is probably good for 12 hours with "average" usage (I would say 70% standby and 30% transmitting and receiving). New batteries life woudl be longer and older batteries less.