Building a repeater

Hello all, I'm not 100% sure that this is the right place for this but i figure you all would be the most knowledgeable about what i'm trying to do.



Here goes,



I am on a rural fire department that has a VERY hard time contacting our dispatch center via our portable radios, I have been tasked with building a repeater that we can mount in our command vehicle so we can talk portable to dispatch. We recently took a repeater out of service that was used for this when we went narrow band. We have a bunch of radios lying around to make one but i need a little help.

Here is what we have

3. TK-780's

2 TK-880's

1 MCS2000

1 CDM1550

1 PM1500

2 Maxtrac (we took these out of service due to narrowbanding)

1 Motorola RICK.

If we could use the maxtrac it would be as simple as reprogramming. I spoke with our local kenwood dealer and he said that they could make "something" but it would cost us. Also I know kenwoods aren't as powerful but we have an amp that we would put on the TX side to help it out.

I would really like to use the Kenwoods for both but if i could use the kenwoods for the input and the cdm for the output that would work too.



Any advise would be great

Thanks!!!

P.S. We do have an FCC license for a repeater.