[FedCom] FRS Radios

[Tom M.]

My company also buys the expensive Motorola radios, but we need intrinsically
safe radios.

If it was not for this, we'd go cheaper.

Tom
--- Steven Rutledge <STRutledge@oii.net> wrote:
> It IS incredible how many agencies are using FRS radios.  It makes
> perfect sense.  I work for a governmental agency.  I purchased five VHF
> radios for simplex work on a frequency licensed to my company.  The best
> price I could get was nearly a thousand bucks each!!!!!!  Of course they
> were Motorola rigs.  Another department had the same issue and they
> bought FRS radios for less than $100 a pair!  They get better service,
> range out of them than the stuff I bought.  When they break, they just
> throw them away and buy new ones.  Further, the Motorola radios are
> about four times larger than the FRS radios.  Motorola STILL can't make
> a convenient sized rig to use.  We have an ASTRO 800 MHz trunked system
> but the delay and lack of talk-around makes close range, constant comms
> out of the question.  Also, if have had to haul around an 800 MHz Sabre
> with the battery it requires, you know how worthless they are.
> 
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