[Geysers] Bill Boyce's radio buy

[Wayne Simister]

Hi Bill,

 >>  I just bought some radios ......

I, too, just purchased some FRS type radios and was totally puzzled over 
what it's all about.

This site's explanation sure helps!  Maybe it will answer some of your 
questions also.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/157037/

Wayne Simister

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billmb at att.net wrote:
> Dear Gazers,
>   I bought some radios. In retrospect, I think I should
> have started a month ago and shopped the Internet. But
> that opportunity passed.
>   So with a few days in Salt Lake City with no car (yet!),
> I made my way to a Radio Shack reachable from our hotel.
> It was a smallish store without much selection. I ended
> up with a pair of Motorola Talkabout T6500R FRS/GMRS two-way
> radios, with a range up to 10 mi.  The batteries seem to be
> rechargeable. It covers "all" 14 FRS channels including what
> must be the original channels 1-7 (warning: a Radio Shack
> house brand started at channel 8!). The packaging tells of
> each channel having 99 "codes", without explaining what the
> codes are for. None of the models referred to the sets
> having "privacy" codes, but the T6500R seems to be a current
> model so I hope it will be all right.
>   I haven't cracked the packaging yet, so if I have made
> an awful error please let me know in the next day or two.
>   Thanks again, everyone.
>   Bill Boyce
>
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