On 07 Dec 2003 20:10:32 GMT, (Jeffrey C. Dege)
wrote:


If they're getting four miles range, they are using GMRS radios, not FRS.
(GMRS shares some channels with FRS, has more power, and requires an
FCC license.)

I picked up a pair of Cobra PR900-2 Dx radios on ebay a month or so
back
(and of course my GMRS application is in the mail...of course.....)

15 GMRS channels which are shared with 7 FRS channels, 38 CTS codes,
vox (need a pair of head sets though if anyone has a Cheap source),
programable scan with priority, yada yada yada

I got them on Ebay for IIRC $32 for the pair, and they are compatable
with the two really cheap FRS 2 channel radios I already had, on only
one channel though.

Anyone have any comments on these units? Ive not given them a full
workout, though they seem to work rather well over several miles.

Gunner

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:42:21 GMT, Gunner wrote:

15 GMRS channels which are shared with 7 FRS channels, 38 CTS codes,
vox (need a pair of head sets though if anyone has a Cheap source),
programable scan with priority, yada yada yada

I got them on Ebay for IIRC $32 for the pair, and they are compatable
with the two really cheap FRS 2 channel radios I already had, on only
one channel though.

Anyone have any comments on these units? Ive not given them a full
workout, though they seem to work rather well over several miles.

Yep. I've got a set of plans for playing around with DTMF with Basic
Stamp microcontrollers, that mentions using them with vox 2-way radios
for a cheap for of low-bandwidth data transmission.

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fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be
controlled and those who have no such desire.
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