Thread: Radio Choice?
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Old December 28th, 2006, 13:31   #8
Kokanee
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Originally Posted by LUTNIT View Post
If you get a 4 watt unit you wont be able to communicate sometimes with people using the simpler 1 watt GMRS radios or 0.5 watt FRS radios. .... when within 500-800m the 4 watt radio is so powerful it blows away my 1 watt radio so all I get is static. The DOW guys at holyman could hear what I was saying but all I got in return was really loud static.
Unless you were constantly transmitting, there is no way your radio was interfering w/ theirs.
You were receiving a carrier w/ no modulation sounds like, in which case I would agree w/ Gryphon that the CTCSS was improperly set or you were slightly off freq.
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