I am in the dark, what are these frs radios?
Is it just a receiver?
What does it do, actually?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:16 PM
Subject: kenwood frs radio


> I don't know if any of you have thought about these things, but they are
> getting amazingly cheap.  I've been kicking the idea around.  My wife
> isn't a ham, not likely to ever be, well not in this life anyway...
> Sometimes she'll stay in and play and I go out to the car to listen to the
> game or whatever and I thought how cool these would be so I could call her
> or she could call me to see if I was ready to come in and play or
> whatever.  Anyhow, I won one at the ham club meeting last Tuesday.  I
> really gave them hell about only giving away one radio, like claping one
> hand The one I won was a kenwood with its own little speaker and also
> comes with a set of headphones.  Why headphones.  Well the little thing,
> and it is very small also has builtin fm stereo radio.  It is a little bit
> of a pain for a blind person to run, but not all that bad once you get the
> hang of it.  I'll let you know more about range and so forth when I get
> another one.  I called a e s here in Vegas and they said they're $19.95.
> The thing has 14 channels and 28 different subtones, what they call talk
> groups.  Just thought you all might be interested.
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr