C. B. radio users??????????? question.

[Marshall R]

My father and I have communication problems. When we pass each other in the hay field, he makes all kinds of hand gestures of what he wants me to do.

Of course, I most of the time have no clue what he is trying to get across to me. He has now resorted to calling my cell phone every 3 minutes it seems, which is driving me crazy.

I know a bunch of you larger farmers have radios in your tractors and trucks. Have any of you found a good deal on a decent set of radios that we could mount in the tractors and the two trucks?

Oh, we are usually in the same field working, so the range is very minimal. When we are not in the same field, we usually are no more than 1/2 mile apart, woods between us, no further than 1 mile, tops.

Thanks for your replys.

Marshall

 

[beenthere]

Maybe a few one-on-one training sessions to get the hand signals down.

I'd think the cell phone would be as handy or handier than the CB radio.

Seems like too, if you are haying, that each of you would know what needs to be done and when. Other than waving in acknowledgement, just getRdun.

 

[banjodunn]

G'day if you are under about 3 mi apart then the little hand held units are great we use them if we don't have uhf radios in any of the vehicles and over here you can get a pretty good set for about $100 pr


Jon

 

[/pine]

for $50 or less you can get some very nice walkie-talkie's...

check Sams club or Costoc etc...I think even Northern tool has some that reach 20 miles in that price range...you can get a set good for a couple of miles for $25...

leave them on low power stand by and the batteries last a very long time even with moderate use...

or wally-world

Search results for walkie talkie - Walmart

 

[Marshall R]

My father is 74 years old, I am 42. He is the micro-manager from, h.........ll. I dont care if I have stepped up on the tractor 1 million times, he will still tell you to step up on the bottom step, before stepping onto the second step. :laughing:

I think he just like telling me what to do. Anyway, he hasn't gone to the same hand signal school. He changes his had signals about every 5 minutes for the same thing that he is trying to get across.......:laughing:

I am used to using radios from my first profession, so I suggested to him for us to get c.b. radios and he was all over that.

Marshall.

 

[KB9UDE]

A good set of Family Radio Service or FRS radios can go up to several miles. These should work good and would be portable. You can get them at Wal Mart or Radio Shack or...any consumer electronics store and no license fees.

 

[Marshall R]

I have a set of the walkie talkies. They work ok, but pop has a hard time understanding what I am saying, and he has a hard time pushing the recessed button and then,,,,,,,start talking.

Usually, I get the reply from him in mid sentence because he wont push the botton first and then start talking, He likes to start talking and somewhere in there, oh, push the button. :laughing:

Marshall

 

[Hawghauler]

Get a third one for his wife to monitor him. :laughing: Even the micro manager has his Kryptonite.

 

[/pine]

Some of the walkie-talkie's have setting so one party does not have to do anything to listen or transmit... i.e., you hear everything going on around the "monitoring" unit...but if you TX from the other unit it over-rides the monitor setting...

 

[jenkinsph]

I agree that the FRS radios are the simple best choice.

But are you really sure that is what you want to do?:laughing::ashamed:

I would stick with the hand signals and stop get off and go the house if I didn't know what I was doing.