RNRC is a member-owned cooperative building a wide-area VHF radio network for ranches, rural businesses, nonprofit organizations, and others who need dependable communications across remote areas.
Cellular service does not reach everywhere. RNRC is developing a cooperative VHF communications network that combines strategically located repeater sites, digital radio technology, and shared infrastructure to provide practical communications across large rural areas.
Multiple linked repeater sites allow members to communicate across areas far beyond the reach of a single conventional repeater.
Compatible radios can move between RNRC repeater sites without requiring users to manually select individual repeaters.
RNRC exists to serve its members. The network is owned and supported cooperatively rather than operated for the profit of an outside carrier.
The network is designed around professional mobile and portable radios intended for demanding rural and outdoor environments.
RNRC uses Motorola MOTOTRBO digital radio technology to connect repeater sites into a shared communications network. Members can travel throughout covered areas and communicate using familiar talkgroups without having to manage individual repeater sites.
RNRC is being built as an expandable communications network. Additional repeater sites, coverage areas, capacity, and communications options can be added as membership and operational needs grow.
RNRC is intended for organizations that operate across large areas where dependable field communications are important and cellular coverage cannot always be relied upon.
RNRC is a cooperative communications network built around a simple idea: organizations working in rural areas can accomplish more by sharing communications infrastructure than by each trying to build and maintain a separate radio system.
By sharing repeater sites, network infrastructure, maintenance, backhaul, and other operating expenses, members can gain access to a much larger and more capable communications system than many could practically build on their own.
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View Coverage →Learn how repeaters, talkgroups, roaming, and RNRC's digital radio network work together.
Learn More →Compare approved portable radios, mobile radios, TLK devices, and WAVE PTX broadband options.
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Contact Us →Whether you need communications across a ranch, remote job sites, vehicles, or a larger operating area, RNRC can help determine whether the network fits your needs.