[Closed] How is walkie-talkie better than cell phone?

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You don't have to dial and wait for a call to connect - assuming you have signal in the middle of nowhere. Plus, group calls are easier on PMR.

When you're in an area with no / limited mobile reception? The problem is that license-free radios are limited in power and are only effective for a limited range e.g. 3km line-of-sight

Action Man always had a walkie talkie, never a mobile phone. Nuf said.

You can assign funky call signs to your friends when you use walkie talkies.

An elegant weapon for a more civilised age.

If top gear/tgt are, in anyway, a yardstick, it seems the one "benefit" is that it's ok to use one  whilst driving.  No, I don't understand it either......

You can use a walkie talkie while driving iirc?

A *clears throat* drivie talkie, if you will. Mhmhmhmmm

Guys? You still there? Guys?

You get to talk gibberish like “Breaker, breaker 10-4 over”

10 4 rubberducky

Huh?

R.

It’s a nice looking building I think, part of the modern London skyline.

You rang m'lud?

They're unbeatable for driving in a convoy.  Really quick to get a message.  OrangeSpyderwoman and I use them when we're going in two cars - usually summer hols because one we always have at least one big journey in two separate cars.  Quick messages like the following car says "got stuck at lights" means car1 can pull over if possible and wait. Etc

Sounds like you got yourself a convoy orangespyderman, 10-4 good buddy

'Cell' phones can only be used in the GoddamnUSofA so if it's anywhere else you're looking, it'll be no good.

When I was a youngster we used to offset the tuning of our radios so that when we wanted a private conversation we could go "offline", though it wouldn't have been that private as anyone with a scanner could still earwig.

We also amplified the signals which was/is illegal. I remember the TV signal used to ghost if you had too powerful amp.

Had fun and games tracking down a blocker once. Somebody had dismembered an old CB and made it so it was locked into transmit. They'd hooked it up to a car battery, increased the power output and left it high up in a tree on one of the highest hills in the area.

Still have my Midland, up in the attic ready for the apocolypse.

^cool user name! First name "on a"?

Breaker breaker one-niner, c'mon back...

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We is headin' for bear on I-one-oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"And I'm about to put the hammer down."</div>
<div>'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
We had eighty-five trucks in all.
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf,
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper;
They even had a bear in the air!
I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck.
"We about to go a-huntin' bear."</div>
'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
And prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge was lined with bears
But I didn't have a dog-goned dime.
I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck.
"We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4."</div>
'Cause we got a little convoy
Rockin' through the night.
Yeah, we got a little convoy,
Ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on and join our convoy
Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way.
We gonna roll this truckin' convoy
'Cross the U-S-A.
Convoy!

This will be thinly disguised spamming attempt i suspect..

It’s a nice looking building I think, part of the modern London skyline

I'm going to have to disagree im afraid, even if a friend of mine was responsible for delivering it.

This will be thinly disguised spamming attempt i suspect..

Pretty well disguised if you ask me!

This is the only Sisley product line

(£160!! £1 per ml!!)

can't update your insta on a walkie talkie so it would be like your ride never happened?

This will be thinly disguised spamming attempt i suspect..

Agreed and yet it's actually something I've been thinking about...

I don't want to buy the kid a phone... and he has some cheap Binatone walkie talkies... that cover the required distance for having in a bag if we get separated on the trails... and also work in most of these ares that have little or no cell coverage anyway.

The other use would be when he's practicing DH race runs... we used to just let him start and I'd start a stopwatch on my watch/phone then catch-up and then try and stop it as soon as he crosses the line...

This was all well and good when I could give him 15sec on a 3 min or thereabouts run.... and still catch him ... and have the phone mounted... So I started to toy with the idea of trying to hack or bodge something that would work inside a full face... which I guess would be in range for somewhere like 417 but not longer places like FoD..

We use to have a pair on group rides, one for the leader, one for the sweeper.  Just a different way of passing up the message that someone near the back got a puncture rather than everyone having to shout it up the group.

They're fun taking the piss out of the locals when skiing. Except when you get some French/Italian/etc official telling you to get off their frequency because you've got UK radios that are probably illegal to use in some countries and are on emergency frequencies.

PMR which is the unlicensed UK radio standard applies across europe, so it shouldn't upset the french or italian authorities. Using the US FRS/GMRS radios might. It is interesting just how busy the FRS/GMRS channels are in european ski resorts.

You can sorta have both. Remember PTT?

Some outdoorsie type phones have a dedicated button. There's an app called Zello (Apple and Android). Needs a 3G/4G connection though, so you'll be without signal in a valley, in the middle of no where!

I’m going to have to disagree im afraid, even if a friend of mine was responsible for delivering it.

Yeah I'm not actually fussed, was just being amusing. It's alright, but there are far more elegant buildings in the City. I had a nice view from my desk on the 17th floor though!

When you cycling in mountains or wherever there is no software connection walkie-talkie might be a very useful thing, am i right?

Action Man always had a walkie talkie, never a mobile phone. Nuf said.

Yeah but he didn’t have any genitals and his fingers fell off