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July 6th, 2005, 07:14 AM
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July 6th, 2005, 02:38 PM
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"chas" wrote in message news:1120630486.f66d850b2a0ec03a641a688f5fcfd697@t eranews... wrote: Also -- any idea how the new cell phone / walkie talkies (and gps, all in one), stack up against the dedicated walkie-talkie unites? Talking about phones like the i860 with Nextel... Cell phone "walkie-talkie" requires a cell tower as I understand it. The "new" ones can actually work as regular old "walkie talkies" too, in addition to direct connect via their digital wireless service. Their usable distance as plain "walkie talkies" is still somewhat of a mystery though, as they are so new still. I've used several of the motorolla type walk-about machines with15 or 20 channels, and 30 some sub channels. They work well up to about 2 miles in the mountains. I think the canyon would need to be tight and nasty to mess them up. Agreed. Terrain and weather (cloud cover) do seem to affect them differently at different times, but they do seem to have a pretty good range. Of course I assume you're referring to the variuos FRS radios out there today. I have a set of Motorolas and a set of Cobras, and they both seem to work about the same, we have used them out to almost 3 miles in good/ideal (line of sight) conditions. Chas remove fly fish to e mail directly
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