ridey talkies

[Anonymous]

If one was to take small uhf radios on a trail ride. And one was to use it to talk to another member of said trail ride group. To, say, ‘what is the hold up good buddy?’.

What channels would one and said buddy use?

note: this is in tech help. so no silly buggers ok?

[Mick DMember]

We have tried the small UHF hand helds before Champo. The ones we were trying to use were rated to 10km line of sight and they didn’t seem to be effective in the bush around here. My 2c worth.

[Anonymous]

micknmeld wrote:

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We have tried the small UHF hand helds before Champo. The ones we were trying to use were rated to 10km line of sight and they didn’t seem to be effective in the bush around here. My 2c worth.

I agree with you Mick, Kylie and me tried UHF radios without much success. But to sort of answer Champo’s question one could try such UHF radios and see what happens they may work, but I don’t know which channel it would be best for one and one’s buddy to use. Probably a channel that is not being used would be a good one. Not being much of a radio buff, does the differing channels have any relation to the output of the radio?

[MalMember]

We use UHFs with our DSMRA rides. We regularly have 15 to 20 riders and usally have around 10 radios spread out through he group. They work well for relaying messages to the lead rider but are really only good for a few kms in the bush.

Get the 5W units as they will transmit the furthest.

As far as channels go, use any channel with no one on it. 40 is the truckie truckie channel. I think 1 – 9 are duplex channels, which are for transmitting further via a repeater station.

[PaulMember]

mal5.1 wrote:

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We use UHFs with our DSMRA rides. We regularly have 15 to 20 riders and usally have around 10 radios spread out through he group. They work well for relaying messages to the lead rider but are really only good for a few kms in the bush.

Get the 5W units as they will transmit the furthest.

As far as channels go, use any channel with no one on it. 40 is the truckie truckie channel. I think 1 – 9 are duplex channels, which are for transmitting further via a repeater station.

mal5.1 is right.
I have a 5watt unit, will bring it on Sundy along with a channel list.

Ch29 is heavily used by trucks on the F3
It is illegal to use 5 and 35 except for emergencies
There are a couple of other reserved channels for 4WDers etc but I cant remember which ones ATM.

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