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My employer leases a large office building. There are about 500 of us on 3 floors in the building. There are 3 stair towers that provide 3 exits on 3 different sides of the buildings.
We have discovered after our first fire drill that we need better communication between sides of the building. We plan to put 2-way radios in an "emergency box" near the exits along with vests for the Floor Marshals.
We have the following requirements:
1. All radios operate on the same band.
2. Radios operate over at least 1000 feet distance
3. Radios are preferably powered by non-rechargeable batteries (they're gonna be sitting in a box unused for long periods)
4. Radios will not interfere with emergency responder equipment
5. Fairly cheap and minimal paperwork required
When I say "fairly cheap", I mean that a set of 49MHz walkie-talkies is good enough if they work. The facilities director did say that I can't come up with Spongebob radios or something silly like that.
Any ideas?
We have discovered after our first fire drill that we need better communication between sides of the building. We plan to put 2-way radios in an "emergency box" near the exits along with vests for the Floor Marshals.
We have the following requirements:
1. All radios operate on the same band.
2. Radios operate over at least 1000 feet distance
3. Radios are preferably powered by non-rechargeable batteries (they're gonna be sitting in a box unused for long periods)
4. Radios will not interfere with emergency responder equipment
5. Fairly cheap and minimal paperwork required
When I say "fairly cheap", I mean that a set of 49MHz walkie-talkies is good enough if they work. The facilities director did say that I can't come up with Spongebob radios or something silly like that.
Any ideas?