walkie talkie with a high range?
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1. Is there any 4-way walkie talkie with a range of 50km (about 30miles)? What about a 2-way walkie talkie with the same range?
2. What is the maximum legal range that a walkie talkie can have in Canada?
3. thanks
Best answer:
Answer by lv_tracee
Try your local Radio Shack, there are several models that have high ranges like that but keep in mind that walkies and two way radios etc are ‘Line of sight’ meaning they don’t use towers like a cellular phone. This means that if you buy some that say up to 30 mile range then that means only in flat areas. If you are in mountains then that range will drop very drastically.
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There is no legal range per se.
If you are talking about the readily avaialble FRS/GMRS radios, the limitations are on power output rather than range.
On FRS, you are limited to 500 mW ERP output power and on GMRS you are limited to 2 watts ERP.
This is under Canadian regulations. No license is required for either service in Canada.
Range claims are grossly inflated by manufacturers in order for them to sell more radios.
Don’t expect any of these to have more than a couple km range.