Wednesday 22 June 2011

Reviewing The Motorola MH230R 23-Mile Range 22-Channel FRS/GMRS Two-Way Radio

By Alexa Lie


There will come a time when you need to have some means to keep in touch with a group of people that are spread out in various directions. These types of radios can be used for all different things and can really help when you need to know where someone is.

I would like to share with you how the Motorola MH230R 23-Mile Range 22-Channel FRS/GMRS Two-Way Radio helps us on our Lake Champlain yearly fishing jaunts. We rent an 8-bedroom home and we normally have between 6 and 10 boats that we bring with us, we can have up to 20 people going on this trip each year. Getting everyone to come in for lunch or dinner was nearly impossible because of the size of the lake and also because people didn't like brining their mobile phone in the boats, (that's another story). At times we would be searching for people for hours, and never be able to find them.

Then a few years ago, I purchased two sets of these radios and placed them in 4 boats. I kick myself for not getting more radios to start with since they worked really well. These radios have a range of 23 miles and no individual was ever out of touch with any of the group. Then the next year I bought more of these so every last boat had one. And naturally wouldn't you know it the succeeding year my uncle's boat wouldn't start out on the lake, and he was a few miles away. My uncle notified us on the radio and the first thing he did was thank me for buying the radios and then told me that his boat wouldn't start. So we went out and towed him and his boat back to the house. Without the two-way radios he would have had to use a single oar to get his sort of huge bass boat back to camp.

These two-way radios have never let us down. As I mentioned, these two-way radios have a 23 mile range and feature a charging station so you don't have to worry about spending a fortune on batteries. You can even be updated on the weather with the weather band that these Motoroal radios have.

And you can utilize these Motorola radios for a lot more than just a fishing trip. My mother decided to take all the grandchildren to Disney Land and wanted to know if she could bring the radios with her, of course I said yes. She thought that it would be a good idea to make certain all of the kids had a two-way radio attached to them just in case someone got lost. While no one got separated from the group, that was actually an outstanding idea she had.

Another thing that we use these Motorola radios for is when we go out hunting as we cover 186 acres when we hunt and it is a fantastic way for people to tell the other people in the group if they are leaving the woods. You have no idea what a time saver this can be unless you have ever been walking around the woods trying to search for somebody you can't find, merely because they got cold and decided to go home.

You can even buy headsets for these two-way radios for even simpler use. With 121 privacy codes and 22 different channels that can be used, you don't have to worry about other Motorola radios interfering.

Amazon.com has these radios for $39.95 for a set of two, and that is really a fantastic bargain. I am positive that there are probably hundreds of different ways that you can use these Motorola radios and these Motorola radios are actually a good quality unit.




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