Quote Originally Posted by Boy Scout View Post
Tagging for followup. Thank you Brigand and Pinz for the great info.

I currently have team comms running on Motorola P25 400mhz and FRS/GMRS for interoperability, but I’m looking to expand.
One of the distinctions to be accounted for is the wide gap in "professional" radios like your Moto P25 units and amateur radios. When you say you're looking to expand, then I have to ask, "expand to what?" As I've been learning, it's far less about a specific radio than it is your operating practices.

I haven't done a write up on it yet, but NC Scout's recent book has a lot of great information. While the book is targeted towards the Baofeng UV5r, it's full of good communications practices that apply to just about anything else. Granted, I think Scout puts a little too much emphasis on partisan activities against an extremely technologically capable adversary (read: governments), but the principles otherwise seem sound for keeping communications effective. I recommend checking it out.