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| Author: | Wilrobnson [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | HF radio in Africa in the news |
In Africa, new radios help fight US-hunted militia Quote: In Africa's remotest jungle, where paved roads and telephones don't exist, a U.S. aid group is installing new high frequency radios to help track the Lord's Resistance Army, a brutal militia that 100 U.S. special forces troops are now helping hunt... Crisis Tracker |
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| Author: | Rich [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
"Twenty-five communities now have radios and 12 more are scheduled to be put up by Invisible Children at a cost of about $18,000 each." Someone is obviously making a comfortable profit on all this. Even the top end stuff like a Micom Pathfinder or RDP should cost much less. |
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| Author: | Wilrobnson [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
Take into account the radio, solar kit, batteries, incidentals along with transportation. There's also some places where solar isn't as viable as another form of power generation, like human power. Transpo is a huge cost factor, especially on the Dark Continent. |
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| Author: | nickcarr [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
I kind of have to agree with Rich -- that does seem rather high -- despite the "other" costs involved. Heck, you could get Icom to donate IC-7200s (and modify them for open Tx) and a couple of Buddiesticks for next to peanuts. |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 4:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
Back in the days of the Vietnam "conflict" the FCC sent all the seized illegal CB stuff over there :mrgreen: |
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| Author: | KE7JFF [ Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
Probably some of that is the CIA's service fee for delivering it :P |
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| Author: | jrw14493 [ Tue Nov 15, 2011 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
My first inclination was that it was a Motorola product at that high price...nothing like pillaging foreign countries. :mrgreen: |
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| Author: | Wilrobnson [ Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: HF radio in Africa in the news |
A necropost later... I just ended up dropping a tad over $26,000 on TRBO radios and miscellaneous stuff for an ongoing project in that same region. The stuff that's going would've run me just under $200 for shipping from origin to my place in Pierce County. To get it SAFELY delivered there, it ran nearly $7,000...underscoring what I said about transportation costs. I don't even want to think about what cash "import fees and customs duties" are going to be paid (off) to local officials by my boots on the ground. #lovetheJunta |
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