Thread: School me on walkie talkies

Originally Posted by XR500

GME or Uniden are fine. Get the rugged version ones (magnesium chassis, not the plastic variety). They are more expensive, but are pretty bulletproof. Being for use on the farm you'll claim the gst back on them, so that knocks the price down a bit. We had a farm worker lose one by a water trough, and it was found 2 months later. Been stood on and shat on. Washed off and it was good as gold!

The baofeng are cheap and cheerful, and do a million more things you do not need them for. Far too many buttons for kids to play with!

But as they can do the vhf freqs, you can get 15-20km line of sight out of them in the hills with a decent telescoping antennae. Something the others will struggle to do

+1 for the GME 5W, got a pair at the beginning of the year after, robust, easy to use, good range.