radios

[el-bagr]

Can anyone with a better understanding confirm my suspicions?

If T4T is on 9-14, and I have a radio (FRS/GMRS, but I suppose #9 is in the FRS range) that doesn't have "privacy code"/squelch but that is tuned to #9, that means that I can hear you but you can't hear me?

If so, that's frustrating! I know the real deal radios are cheap, but the basic Unidens I picked up were effectively free.

Along a similar line, do your fancy radios have the capability to listen to #9 without any subcode -- i.e. monitor channel 9 fully?

[NH_tele]

Actually, a radio with no privacy codes is channel 9, code 0. You can't hear people on privacy codes, and they can't hear you either (I believe the monitor button may allow them to, however).

The problem is, the major channels get VERY congested, especially on a warm, sunny spring day, with tucks & then wildcat right by each other...

[M@]

I think you might have it wrong nh-tele. I think all privacy codes do is STOP your radio from hearing anything without the correct privacy code. I think this means anyone without a privacy code (or with their code set to 0) will hear everything.

So: If you plan on talking to someone with out privacy codes on their radio, you should select code zero.

I could be wrong, I was wrong once before - but lukily there were no survivors.

M@

[NH_tele]

I'll test it sometime...

I totally agree with you that you want to set code "0" for talking to a non-coded radio. However, I think that privacy codes make it so you can't hear people on the general channel, and they can't hear you....

[Skilasnow]

I was with someone that had no codes. We never figured out how to communicate effectively, but One of us could hear the other, but not the other way around. So I think M@ has it right.

[NH_tele]

Hmmm, guess I should stick with skiing...

(and so nh_tele's blooming career as a radio technician was abrubtly ended)