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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide portable radio repeaters?
Portable Radio Repeaters & Tower Trailers
Yes.
KDT provides portable radio repeaters and tower trailers: VHF, UHF and P25 repeaters in transportable cases or on telescoping mast trailers, set on high ground and powered by battery, solar or generator to extend radio coverage across your incident.
Typical configuration
- Bands
- VHF, UHF and P25 digital; dual-band and cross-band units available
- Output
- About 5–50 W (typical portable repeaters)
- Coverage
- Often 10–30+ miles for handhelds from a good high site, depending on terrain
- Power
- Battery with solar charging (portable); solar, battery and generator (trailer)
- Mast
- Telescoping trailer masts about 30–100 ft, guyed for wind
- Setup
- Duplexed input/output pair with CTCSS tones or P25 NACs per the comms plan
Handheld radios talk directly to each other over a few miles at best, less in canyons and timber. A repeater fixes that: it listens on one frequency and retransmits on another at higher power from a high spot, so a crew behind a ridge can reach command miles away. On a big incident, repeater placement decides whether the comms plan works.
KDT supplies two forms. Portable repeaters are self-contained transportable cases (radio, duplexer, battery and antenna) light enough to fly to a ridgetop by helicopter or carry in on a UTV, and they run for days on batteries with solar charging. Tower trailers carry repeaters, antennas and often Starlink, cameras and Wi-Fi on a telescoping mast that raises about 30 to 100 feet, with solar, battery and a generator on board, for camps, staging areas and storm zones where the high ground is a parking lot.
We pick sites from terrain and coverage, set frequency pairs and tones to match the ICS 205, test coverage from the field, and keep power and batteries up for the life of the incident. Cross-band repeaters and interoperability gateways can tie VHF, UHF and P25 users together where agencies show up with different radios.
Available as
- Portable case repeaters (VHF or UHF)
- P25 digital portable repeaters
- Cross-band repeaters and interoperability gateways
- Tower trailers with repeaters
- Tower trailers combining Starlink, cameras and Wi-Fi
- Solar and battery site kits for remote ridgetops
What's included
- Coverage planning from terrain and the comms plan
- Site setup, including helicopter-supported placement coordinated with air operations
- Programming of frequency pairs and tones
- Field coverage testing
- Battery, solar and fuel maintenance
- Retrieval at demob
Where it's used
- Ridgetop sites covering remote work areas
- Base camp and ICP coverage
- Hurricane zones where towers are down
- Shoreline spill operations
- Hazmat perimeters and staging
- Security and contractor sites
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide portable radio repeaters?
Yes. We supply VHF, UHF and P25 portable repeaters and tower trailers, set them on high ground, program them to your comms plan and keep them powered.
How far does a portable repeater reach?
From a good high site, often 10 to 30 miles or more for handhelds, but terrain decides it. We pick sites from coverage maps and test from the field before the plan goes live.
How are remote repeaters powered?
Portable repeaters run on batteries with solar charging, usually for days between visits. Tower trailers add generators. We keep them charged and fueled.
Can repeaters connect different agencies' radios?
Yes. Cross-band repeaters and interoperability gateways can link VHF, UHF and P25 channels so different agencies can talk where the plan calls for it.
What is a tower trailer?
A towable trailer with a telescoping mast, typically 30 to 100 feet, and its own power. It lifts repeater antennas, Starlink, cameras or Wi-Fi above trees and buildings anywhere it can be parked.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.