Two Way Radio's

[Buckeye_Jim]

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Daryl,

Just wanted to point out the FRS (family radio service) channels are in the UHF band. I believe around 450 MHz. They should work well for you.

Jim

 

[1962]

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sounds like ms. claus got your christmas list. i hope they(radios) work out for you. the ones i got my parents for christmas are on the chargers getting ready for the monday after christmas sales at the local malls. hopefully now they can locate one another when they head their seperate ways. they will also come in handy on their summer bicycle ventures. and yes, your new radios are UHF, so is the GMRS band. just RF output is 1 watt or less.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS

 

[5030]

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I spent the afternoon in my shop, I am doing a job on the vertical mill and I had the radio clipped on my jeans pocket. Ms. Claus (aka Amy) wanted me so she paged me and the little radio wiggled to let me know. I think these will work out okay. The real test will be this summer when I am a few miles from the house in the tractor but like I said, thyere is no obstructions save for a couple of trees here and there. Besides, our house sits on a sand hill like my property next door and it's relatively higher that the surrounding countryside. That should help.

She got them at Cabela's about a month ago she told me. They are real tree camo, not my favorite color, I'd have preferred yellow, but I guess that's all they had. I'd not want to have it drop in a hayfield, I'd never find it.

I do have one question that's not addressed in the user manual and that is: Can I leave the units on while they are in the charger base? Amy's will 99% of the time stay in the kitchen while mine will be with me. I read the book top to bottom and find no mention of yes or no anywhere. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[JayDavis]

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FRS/GMRS radios operate in the 460-470MHz range. These are UHF. Most services (even GMRS) require an FCC license. The FCC doesn't like it when unlicensed users operate on licensed spectrum and the monetary fines can be pretty harsh. If the FRS radios don't work out, talking to someone in the commercial communications business will help you find out what you can and can't do.... legally. You might not ever be caught, but you never know.

CB may be the best bet out to a few miles. Of course you would have to use the mobile units and install antennas on the tractors. The base setup could be a mobile radio hooked up to a 13.8VDC power supply.

I built a full-size 1/4 wavelength vertical antenna for the CB freqs (about 8.5ft tall) to talk to my father on the CB while he was mobile at work. I put it up at 10ft and made 4 radials for it. I could talk to him out to about 10 miles easily in wooded terrain with rolling hills and we were both using stock (legal) CBs.

I don't care for a lot of the behavier to be found on the CB personally, but it can still be used for it's intended purpose.

 

[1962]

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i looked in the manual also. i charged the ones i got for my parents last night after i showed them how they operate. the only thing i could find was not to leave the radios in the charger for more than 16 hours. i was hoping they could be left in the chargers till they needed to use them, but the charger electronics are not trickle types and would overcharge the batteries if left in for extended periods.

they seem like nice radios, someday we will get to test out the range. but they will be quite satisfied for what they are going to use them for.
if there is a help phone number on the package, maybe their tech can answer that question. you could possibly harm the battery or damage the charger.

 

[5030]

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1962:

My wife likes the radio's. I am doing a big milling job in the shop and of course she went shopping today. When she got home, she paged me and told me dinner would be in 30 minutes. 20 minutes later, again the radio piped up and it was time to come in. Works good and she don't have to trudge through the snow to get me.

I see that if you reverse the position of the radios in the charger base, they won't charge. That's what I did. I'll probably leave them on 24/7 and watch the battery indicator. I'd forget to turn my wife's on if I took mine with me.

 

[3RRL]

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5030...
What the heck are you milling in the shop?...

 

[5030]

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3RRL:

Lets see:

Normally, I work with metal. I do custom fabrication for my employer as a sub-contractor, make bushings, do custom parts and assemblies but this time, they needed a bunch of 4x6 hardwood timbers notched,

I have 6 bunks of oak timbers sitting in the driveway, 200 4x6x2' long and 200 4x6x3' long. They are heavy...unloaded the truck with the M9. I am using an R8 fly cutter with a 3/4"x3/16" HSS toolbit with the end ground into a chisel shape to cut a notch 3 1/2" deep x 3" wide in to each. I jigged up a set of blocks at each end of the table and I wedge 6 at a time on the table and mill the notch. My wife is saving the shavings in plastic garbage bags for stall bedding. The shop is a mess with piles and piles of shavings all around....the Bridgeport is covered. It's gonna take me a month to get all the shavings out of the shop.

I have to run the B'Port in high to get the cutter tip speed high enough to get a clean cut but it works. I prefer metal, much less messy.

 

[DavidA]

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Hello 5030, don't worry too much about finding one if it is dropped in the hey field. As long as your tractor or equipment do not run over it, just get the other unit and go out in the field and page it - ring it- or just talk to it. You will eventualy hear it and wil be able to walk to it. I dropped mine (had it in a como belt carrier) off the tractor while bush hogging between my young pine trees. Wen t back to the house got the other unit and within about 15 minutes I retrieved the lost unit. No damage, no problems. My wife loves ours, uses them as an intercom system between me in the fields or in the shop. We have 150 acres and our FMRS units are loud and clear and strong anywhere on the place.

 

[Henro]

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Hey Flip,

That wife of yours is pretty good! She got you thinking you got 2-way radios!

From your reports above it is clear to me you only got half of what you think you do. She speaks and you listen! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Story of my life too... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif