Perhaps the difference is in the brand/model.... what FRS hand held did you
use?

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Lussier" <rlussier@lenscraft.com>
To: "Bill Davidson" <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: CB Power .

> 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=274162
429&ACTION=action&FILE=new/75wx.html
>
> Ron
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