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Originally Posted by Affliction
I recently purchased a pair of FRS radios as loaners for the last game I was at:
http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/.../10120533.aspx
They worked great. Range isn't an issue out in the open and the people using them reported no problems with communication. Conveniently the battery pack is essentially 3 AA batteries wrapped together so you can bring spare AAs if you're worried about battery life. Both radios lasted about 10 hours that day and showed no signs of dying.
A good UHF radio will cost about the same as a blister pack of pairs -- After owning both a UHF (GP68) and FRS radio, I doubt I would buy another UHF radio. They take a lot of reading to program correctly and you have to mess around with things like squelch / CTCSS. |
Thanks, those are actually on sale for 69 at futureshop for today and tomorrow.
I was about to get them because of the AA batteries as well but then looked around for a headset and found none (or too expensive). As a friend pointed out, I need a headphone to keep silent, even if I shoulder-mount it to talk.