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Just interested in everyone's experience with Telario. Seems to be an interesting little package for small businesses.. a 7 channel trunking system with phone interconnect.
Has anyone installed the new active antennas?
Shortcomings:
- No overdial to access many handsets from the phone line directly.
- Vibrate ring lasts only about 1/2 second!
- Spare batteries take 30 hours to charge!!!
- No talk group scan.
- Mics are too sensitive, too much back ground noise picked up.
Comments?

Only saw the paperwork on it! I often wonder about a 1.9 GHz frequency next to my head, (even if it says its only 33mw?) Still wondering about our current cell phones, and what there doing to us at 800Mhz ????

On 2002-01-04 10:12, perthcom wrote:
Just interested in everyone's experience with Telario. Seems to be an interesting little package for small businesses.. a 7 channel trunking system with phone interconnect.
Has anyone installed the new active antennas?
Shortcomings:
- No overdial to access many handsets from the phone line directly.
- Vibrate ring lasts only about 1/2 second!
- Spare batteries take 30 hours to charge!!!
- No talk group scan.
- Mics are too sensitive, too much back ground noise picked up.
Comments?

We've installed 3 systems, all with active antennas. I couldn't tell you what kind of difference they make, as I believe our sales guy over-sold the systems & they would have worked fine without them.
The main thing I don't like about them (other than the super slow programming) is the fact you cannot scan between talkgroups, or have an "all-call" feature to get a hold of several groups at once.
Positives include the fact you can easily interconnect 2 systems to increase the range, and you can also easily interface it to conventional or trunking radio systems. This puts it way ahead of competing systems like Companion. Actually, if it weren't for that, I couldn't see much advantage over having a bunch of 2.4GHz cordless phones instead, wayyy cheaper.