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FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:30 pm
by Turkeytop
Is FRS a real thing? Is there a practical use for it, or is it just a plaything for kids?
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:39 pm
by Rate This
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:30 pm
Is FRS a real thing? Is there a practical use for it, or is it just a plaything for kids?
What is it?
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:07 pm
by kager
Rate This wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:39 pm
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:30 pm
Is FRS a real thing? Is there a practical use for it, or is it just a plaything for kids?
What is it?
No way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio_Service
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:13 pm
by Rate This
Oh those. Short range communications for whatever you can think of. They’d be great in a convoy or doing security at an event.
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:04 pm
by TC Talks
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 2:30 pm
Is FRS a real thing? Is there a practical use for it, or is it just a plaything for kids?
We have 4 of these. They're like $15 - $25
When my kids were 7ish, they took one with them to the playground down the street.
We use them skiing all the time.
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:52 pm
by Round Six
Around me FRS is used quite a bit. Security, road flag people, store comms, etc. For a long time families used them at Cedar Point. Still used there, but not as much since kids younger have cells. We use them at ham swaps like Dayton and Findlay since not everyone has a ham license.
They are a good way to communicate. They all transmit half a watt. Yeah the "toy" ones don't seem to have good range. But the more you spend, the more sensitive the recieve, hence the further you can communicate. And the better understandable the audio.
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:25 pm
by Turkeytop
Some of them claim to have a range of twenty-five miles or thirty miles. I expect that a more realistic number might be one mile.
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:35 pm
by TC Talks
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:25 pm
Some of them claim to have a range of twenty-five miles or thirty miles. I expect that a more realistic number might be one mile.
25 miles from 10,000 feet
Re: FRS
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:13 pm
by HD74
ACTUALLY, the ones you pick up at Meijer,Walmart,...are toys, but I liked playing with walkie-talkies when I was young. Repeaters are allowed if you are licensed. This really increases that range.
Re: FRS
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:43 am
by Turkeytop
I have a set of Sylvania I bought about 20years ago. I use them for only one thing, We have satellite TV and occasioally I have to make a slight adjustment in the position of the dish.
As I'm doing it, my wife watches the on-screen signal strength monitor and reads it out to me.
Then I put them away until the next time. Once, I took one with me when I went for a walk. It was good for about a mile.
There is a day care centre a couple of blocks from our house. The staff there uses them for communications. Sometimes I hear them on my scanner.
Re: FRS
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 7:40 am
by Round Six
Turkeytop wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:25 pm
Some of them claim to have a range of twenty-five miles or thirty miles. I expect that a more realistic number might be one mile.
Sure you and I could stand on two mountain peaks 50 miles apart and hear each other fine if it's line of sight. Sorta how they can make unrealistic range claims.