Pretty sweet.
Local red cross chapter has a converted ambulance that has 8 or 9 radios in it. Sweet rig.
When, not if, I get a trailer, I’m going to beef it up quite a bit electrically and put a Yaesu 897 with a TNC and a SDR on a laptop so that I don’t have to knob around the dial.
I’m addicted to software defined radio - you can see the whole band in front of you and click on a frequency to monitor or to talk.
Sending email over 1200 baud doesn’t sound all that sexy, but when you are doing it without the internet it is.
Mark
Back in Illinois, our EMA Comms unit was an old METRA-transport bus outfitted with 10 radio positions, including HAM and DHS-EMS radio sat-band. 3 hand-held sat phones, too. Replaced the old METRA A/C with a Mobile HVAC large enough to cool a 2500sqft home. A hitch-mount 10KW Genny (diesel, so we could snitch from the bus reserves) and/or 240V-shoreline ran the whole shootin’ match.
Shortly after I moved away, they outfitted it with a retractable antenna for a repeater. In case they had no power -anywhere- and LOS comms were needed.
We called it the “EMA-EMF”, EMF for short. Stood for “Electronic Mother[redacted]”