At 10:26 AM -0800 12/4/00, Bill Davidson wrote:
>  > For close ~1mi inter vehicular communications the Family Radio Service VHF
>>  hand helds like the Motorola Talkabout and others is a much better
>solution
>>  than CB.
>
>I seem to remember from Coyote's posts from South America that these hand
>helds had a lot of static during inter vehicular use... that they were a
>pain to use...

This is true.  We ended up switching to CB use.  The FRS radios were
very hard to understand, though they had about the same range as CB.
We ended up saying "What?" a lot.  The CB was much clearer.  I use
the Cobra 75 WX ST, which has some sort of 'SoundTracker' technology
to improve  transmission and reception of CB radio signals.  Seemed
to work.

http://www.cobraelec.com/scripts/shopplus.cgi?DN=cobraelec.com&CARTID=274162429&ACTION=action&FILE=new/75wx.html

Ron
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