Project Farm FRS radio testing

[MarkInTampa]

Interesting results....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7opritxml8

[amaff]

I don't even need to look at the comments to know what the rabble is saying about his not-a-radio-guy knowledge 

Pretty decent showing for the $10 Pxton tho. Amazing what just having a 'real' antenna can do.

[OffRoaderX]

1 hour ago, amaff said:

I don't even need to look at the comments to know what the rabble is saying about his not-a-radio-guy knowledge

That's the best kind of knowledge.

[hxpx]

Who would've thought a little unicorn radio would perform so poorly? So disappointed.

[amaff]

31 minutes ago, hxpx said:

Who would've thought a little unicorn radio would perform so poorly? So disappointed.

And yet, cost the same as the pretty well performing Pxton lol

[hxpx]

1 minute ago, amaff said:

And yet, cost the same as the pretty well performing Pxton lol

Yeah, like you said, that antenna's doing a lot. Maybe I'll just rattle can my radios pink and white.

I like how Project Farm pits Harbor Freight (or in this case, probably Amazon) specials against major brands that cost 5x as much.

[hxpx]

Ha. Someone on Reddit questioned whether the pxtons were actually FRS radios. Pxton puts the FCC ID in the Amazon listing and look at that - Part 90, not Part 95 (scraped from https://fccid.io/2AX68-PX888S since the FCC search appears to be down)

Still, 1.8W so that antenna's doing its thing.

[amaff]

8 minutes ago, hxpx said:

Ha. Someone on Reddit questioned whether the pxtons were actually FRS radios. Pxton puts the FCC ID in the Amazon listing and look at that - Part 90, not Part 95 (scraped from https://fccid.io/2AX68-PX888S since the FCC search appears to be down)

Still, 1.8W so that antenna's doing its thing.

When he started talking about some of the cheaper radios and using their pre-installed frequencies, it did set off a few alarm bells haha

I'm not exactly shocked.