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Gameskeeper
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And yet I refuse to read the manual. In part because it is probably thrown in the trash!
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Woodsman
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| yeah the warning is just that a warnings and you know wht they say it aint illegal till you get caught
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Button Buck
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| I have a couple of older radio's that were rated at 12 mile range. Take that with a grain of salt, but they work ok. How do the newer 30 mile radio's compare? Are they much better?
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Button Buck
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pabowhunter (1/5/2009)
Read into it a little more and understand it. The transmit power level is different for some channels and this will effect your range. The FCC tries to regulate transmissions over a particular power level in this band.
Those radios are UHF - about 450 - 460 Mhz and do not transmit with more then one watt.
Some channels only uses one half of one watt.
Range has nothing to do with how much power it puts out.
The amount of signal decreases at the square of the distance away from the transmitter.
Eventually the level of signal gets so low that it seemingly falls into the noise and is lost forever.
The radio - regardless of how many watts it puts out is limited to a line of sight transmission.
Because it is UHF, line of sight means that it transmits like a flashlight. You cannot point a flashlight up into the sky and have light come down on the ground, if you shine it in front of you, it does not shine behind you. If you shine it against a side of a hill, it cannot travel through the hill and come out the other side. The signal only goes so far and then quits - just like when you are out spot lighting deer. The spot light only shines so far. It will not go around the corner of a hill - the signal is line of sight.
The only thing you can do is have one person on the bottom of one hill and one person at the top and one person on the other side at the other bottom of the valley and they can speak between each other as long as each person talks to the person at the top of the hill.
They are not a reliable means of communications if you are going to rely on them for emergency's' in a hilly - tall hill or mountain and deep valleys because they will not transmit very far. The furthest I have ever spoke on my Motorola' Talkabout 16 mile walkie talkie was about 4 or 5 miles in Pennsylvania.
For the most part, the Colbra's are a cheaper version of the Talkabout's and they do not interchange because they all transmit on a different frequency and do not use the same channel numbers as did the CB walkie talkies back in the 60's - 90's.
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Button Buck
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The Midland made a really good Walkie talkie that used crystals back in the 70's, but since then their quality has gone down hill and their newer walkie talkies are really crappy.
Small push to talk buttons and small antenna's and again, the channel numbers do not interchange with the Motorola's.
Motorola came out with a SSB Talkabout a couple of years ago that they got into trouble - because the Fcc said that you are not allowed to scramble transmissions, only the technology for scrambling only costs about $15 per a unit and does not increase it's range - as it did with a CB radio long time ago.
So the best radio's to use are the Motorola Talkabouts that are the cheapest to buy that has all the features you want. Since most of them has the frequency eliminator codes which decreases the amount of chatter on your selected channel, you can almost have 100 people in the same woods, using the same radios and no one person could hear anyone else unless they put their radio on scan.
Yes you should have a license, but because it only transmits on average about 2 - 3 miles, unless a Game Warden really wants to get you, I wouldn't worry about it. The FCC has no way to monitor someone more then 3 miles away - same thing, unless they really wanted to catch you.
You have to abide by all the rules of the FCC which includes no swearing on the radio and not to use them for criminal activities.
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jb1buckmaster (3/5/2010)
You have to abide by all the rules of the FCC which includes no swearing on the radio and not to use them for criminal activities.
that's no fun 
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