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.

[hxpx]

2 hours ago, dosw said:

Set his radio to channel 8-14.

Me: I set our radios to channel 9 and locked the controls. Just use the side button, you don't need to touch anything else.
KId: Okay, thanks dad!

[fifteen minutes later]

Kid: I pushed a bunch of buttons and now I can't talk to you.
Me: Well, you unlocked the controls, set the radio to channel 3, set a PL tone, turned the volume all the way down, and... turned the roger beep back on.

 

Little man loves his roger beep.

They're FRS radios with a .5W TX max - we did a test and I can't pick them up outside the neighborhood. He did turn it to CH 15 (462.550) once and freaked out when it picked up local repeater traffic. That was fun. Couple of older guys talking about lunch and sports.

[WRDJ205]

Over the weekend my son’s phone was dead so he put in his Sonic order to me over the repeater.   Oh well…. 

[NCJeb]

I must admit I’m enjoying this thread—and a few years down the road, I look forward to the “kid misadventures of radio” all mentioned. I own 15 acres of woods on the side of a mountain, and my wife and I have taken to using HTs if I go for a walk and want to leave the cell phone (and the rest of the world) behind. But I totally see in the future, when we have a couple munchkins of our own, using said radios to call them when supper is ready…and all the fun that will come with little explorers chit-chatting through the woods…

[WRHS218]

My granddaughter is at the age where she enjoys talking to me on GMRS using her parents radio or sometimes her grandmother's handheld. Good times.

[Jaay]

I'm all over the place lol! Local Gmrs repeaters, Simplex and Repaters on Ham radio, and on Murs as well, And on Brandmeister 3100 and 93 on Dmr.