<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Thought 1/2 watt and no external antennas??? Have the rules changed??<br>Ron<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 8/28/11, Bob Bruninga <i><bruninga@usna.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bob Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br>Subject: [aprssig] Clubs, FRS and Ham Response teams<br>To: aprssig@tapr.org<br>Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 2:15 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">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
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