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Old December 1st, 2014, 22:36   #10
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Just a gentle reminder here for folks advocating using "ham" radios on FRS/GMRS frequencies that to do so breaks a number of Canadian laws. Not that it would be enforced unless your operation of those radios started attracting attention to yourself by causing interference to other licensed services; or, someone complained hard enough to IC about you. The reason I bring this up is because "ham" radios do not undergo technical certification for among other things, spectral purity of the emitted signal. So if you end-up with a (really) cheap radio, it might just be you really did get what you paid for and while you're gleefuly shouting orders to other airsofters on your team on a FRS channel, you may also be simultaneously sending out copies of yourself across multiple different frequencies above and below the one you're operating on. If one of those copies (spurious emission) lands on say a police tactical or fire or some other important service and causes disruption to their operations for a long enough period of time, you can bet the feds will eventually show up at your game day, and they won't be happy.

That said: These are not the droids you're looking for...move along.

'Fly
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