{"id":14195,"date":"2014-03-17T02:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2014-02-03T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T01:03:06","slug":"motorola-two-way-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/motorola-two-way-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorola Two-Way Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a consumer level walkie-talkie, I recommend the Motorola <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001UE6MIO\/cooltools-20\">MH230R<\/a> ($47), or for slightly longer range, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B001UE6MJ8\/cooltools-20\">MR350R<\/a> ($54).  I lived for several years in the Eastern Sierra where we used these for hiking. Usually they were good for 2-3 miles over mountainous terrain, and of course much further if users were in line of sight. I know from personal experience they are good for at least 11 miles as I used them to talk with my wife via a direct line-of-sight. But while they are rated for 23 and 35 miles respectively, for practical purposes, I&#8217;ve never relied on them unless we were within a few miles of each other, with no major obstructions. You can also use them for NOAA weather. They&#8217;re light &#038; cheap enough to be practical, require AA batteries (rechargeables work fine) and are durable. On some hikes we&#8217;d have 5 or 6 deployed, carried by hikers of varying speeds, so we could keep tabs on where everyone was, and for that purpose they worked rather well &#8212; not perfect, but mostly good enough. If you&#8217;re within a few hundred yards of another radio, they always worked, even around large obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inexpensive walkie talkies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14442,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14195\/revisions\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}