<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>YeahBut - - what about the license requirement? They sound like good Justin Case insurance but you cannot get insurance at the moment of need - - -<br></span></div><div> </div><div>"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."<br>Robert A. Heinlein<br><br></div><div>“I’ll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in your life as I can.” <br>Rick Perry<br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
aprssig@tapr.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:15 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [aprssig] Clubs, FRS and Ham Response teams<br></font><br>Cheap Radios for Emergency Preparedness!<br><br>We bought 10 pairs of FRS radios amounting to about $14 each and made them available to our entire school ham radio club. The idea being to make sure that all boots-on-the-ground could contact each other and the local campus EOC during the Hurricane.<br><br>Even the Hams found them very handy for short range contact so that their HT could remain on the EOC, AREA/RACES and other vital channels, leaving the FRS channel available for logistics and coordination within the club and on scene.<br><br>This sure keeps a lot of simplex traffic off of the HAM channels that are already busy with longer distance traffic.<br><br>The FRS radios are 1 watt UHF with 22 channels, PL, CTCSS and
DCS (including CTCSS Scan!) and rechargeable batteries and charger for $28 a pair. We consider them expendible so they are the ones we use in the rain, over the water, and into the mud.<br><br>Plus the unlicensed newcomers to the club can use them to stay in touch with our Cadre of communicators ntil they get thir licenses.<br><br>If you are Radioactive, dont overlook these excellent HT's. PS. I measured several on a Sig gen and ALL are identical 0.2 uV or so sensitive as good as any ham radio.<br><br>Bob, WB4APR<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><a href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>