What's a radio good for anyway?

[LeoG]

My wife is heading up to NYs to babysit our 2 grandsons while my boy does his bowling tournament thing.  I came home for lunch to see her off.  After she got settled into the car I took off and by the time I got to the shop she's calling me on the radio.  She doesn't have a radio in her car so she was in the house.

Turns out she couldn't find her phone and radioed me to call it so she could hear where it was.  I did, she found it LOL.

 

And that's why a radio is better than a phone, in this case LOL.

[TrikeRadio]

Radios for the win!   

[WRYZ926]

I kept my land line phone for a while since my youngest son was always misplacing his cell phone. He would use the land line to find his cell phone.

[tcp2525]

Yeah, back in the day of the old 3-watt analog "mobile phone" the wife would get into her car and call me to say she's on her way home from work. After a while I asked her why don't you call me from the phone on your desk before you leave? I told her that I love her, but you're costing me $0.25-cents each time you call from that damn phone. I'm glad the novelty wore off after a few weeks or I would be in the poor house.

[LeoG]

You know how women like to talk.....

[amaff]

1 hour ago, LeoG said:

You know how women like to talk.....

They must all be using voice modifiers on the repeaters around here 

 

[LeoG]

We have 4 or 5 that semi regularly use the repeater.  My wife isn't one of them but on rare occasions she'll chime into a conversation.  She has no problem contacting me though our repeater though.  I still think she thinks it's our private frequency.  I know it's not.

[WRUE951]

i love the radio when RV'ing the highways with friends..  Defiantly would be lost without it 

[nokones]

I always thought it was for impressing the chicks!

[hxpx]

My kid likes running around outside with an FRS radio and talking to me, which is fun for both of us.

He also likes kerchunking and hitting the call/alarm button until I take the radio away, which is only fun for one of us. But we all start somewhere.

[dosw]

16 minutes ago, hxpx said:

My kid likes running around outside with an FRS radio and talking to me, which is fun for both of us.

He also likes kerchunking and hitting the call/alarm button until I take the radio away, which is only fun for one of us. But we all start somewhere.

Set his radio to channel 8-14.

 

[WRYZ926]

3 hours ago, LeoG said:

You know how women like to talk.....

As much as my wife likes to talk, I still can't get her to talk on the radio.