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Equipment & Gear => All Other Gear => Topic started by: snake on May 03, 2024, 06:30:06 AM

Title: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: snake on May 03, 2024, 06:30:06 AM: Im looking for some good 2 way radios. Has anyone tried the "Rockie Talkie's" or know of any good radios?
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: Hirt on May 03, 2024, 07:22:19 AM: A Baofeng UV-5R is what I started with. You can get decent range on them, they are cheap, and you can talk to people on different brand radios if do deer drives or go off-roading with larger groups.
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: buckfvr on May 03, 2024, 09:55:49 AM: Quote from: Hirt on May 03, 2024, 07:22:19 AM
A Baofeng UV-5R is what I started with. You can get decent range on them, they are cheap, and you can talk to people on different brand radios if do deer drives or go off-roading with larger groups.

A HAM radio license is required to transmit on the radio you mention.
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: pianoman9701 on May 03, 2024, 10:00:33 AM: 600 series RINOs have a 5w radio with up to 20 mile line of sight reception and when you transmit, they plot you on the map.
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: birddogdad on May 03, 2024, 11:01:32 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on May 03, 2024, 10:00:33 AM
600 series RINOs have a 5w radio with up to 20 mile line of sight reception and when you transmit, they plot you on the map.

have used for years. the advertised range is line of sight... if over a ridge, reduces many times even in 5W GRMS modes... real may only be a mile or two over mountain to partners...
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 03, 2024, 11:13:04 AM: CoryTDF showed up in elk camp this year with Rockie Talkies. They are indeed all they're cracked up to be. Long distances in tough terrain, we always had contact with each other. They work as advertised. :tup:
I am probably getting a set this year.
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: Russ McDonald on May 03, 2024, 07:06:33 PM: So those Rockie Talies max 5 miles but that would be on GMRS frequencies that are in the radio and 5 watts. GMRS requires a FCC license to legally operate on. Baufeng can also operate on FRS and GMRS as long as they are type 90 excepted which some.models are so no need for a ham license. Only need a ham license to operate on the ham band.

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Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: snake on May 03, 2024, 08:19:29 PM: Thanks for the reply. From the research I have done the license is $35 for 10 years. I have a Rhino but they are two times as much as the Rockie's. I am looking to get 4 radios so my wife and kids can all carry one when we are in the hills checking cams and some are waiting at the truck while we hike in. stuff like that. Also for hunting of course.
Title: Re: Best 2 Way Radios?
Post by: Russ McDonald on May 04, 2024, 05:27:40 AM: Quote from: snake on May 03, 2024, 08:19:29 PM
Thanks for the reply. From the research I have done the license is $35 for 10 years. I have a Rhino but they are two times as much as the Rockie's. I am looking to get 4 radios so my wife and kids can all carry one when we are in the hills checking cams and some are waiting at the truck while we hike in. stuff like that. Also for hunting of course.
Yeah the license is pretty simple. Looked at the Rookie Radios they look pretty cool. Almost the size of my Garmin Inreach. If I am out there alone hunting I will bring my work radio with me. Have some really good range on it.

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