Gary73 10 #1 November 14, 2011 Anyone have any experience with these? Most of the other models in this class seem to have a weather-alert feature which will interrupt ANY other traffic when an alert is broadcast on the NOAA frequencies, which doesn't seem like a good feature for a student radio. Thanks! "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanHarrop 42 #2 November 14, 2011 I have no experience with that model. This is what we use and they work very well http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Two-Way+Radios+and+Pagers+-+Business/Pagers/MINITOR+V_US-EN There are more features than what we need/use but very good as student radios"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tdog 0 #3 November 16, 2011 For work, I have to buy radios for my staff at multiple sites. We buy the Motorola BPR40 (A.K.A. Mag One)... They go thru war. They are dropped in snow and rain, hit with pressure washers, stepped on, and charged for 8 hours and used for 8 hours 365 days a year assigned to 3 different daily shifts. They are about $150 each in bulk. They are the intro model of Motorola's business radios, where the next model up are $350 to $500. Repairs always cost about $150 on the more expensive radios, so I consider the $150 units disposable, and get on average 4 years of use before we retire a batch. If I was looking for radios (after using other more expensive motorola radios as an AFFI) - these are the ones I would buy... However, I am still wanting a wireless bluetooth speaker mounted in every helmet, or even better yet, an integrated one way radio, because mounting the radio on the chest strap is hard to hear, mounting it on the helmet is a snag hazard... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanHarrop 42 #4 November 16, 2011 Quotebecause mounting the radio on the chest strap is hard to hear The receivers I mentioned above are pretty good even on chest straps. When a student is still a few hundred feet up and a feet hundred feet away from me I can make out my own voice coming from their radio. I figure if I can hear it from that far away, they should be able to hear it too."Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
