>>428281>A question to all of you who use radios. What do you use them for? Work? For fun?Little bit of both. Most of the time it's when I'm communicating between others in my group. If I'm taking up anchor and something happens, I can radio up to the guy in the lead so our crew doesn't spread out too far and lose each other.
Nice to have in the truck too when there's more than one rig together - most places I travel don't have good phone coverage, and radios work exceptionally well. Especially a bigger vehicle-mounted radio, vs. a handheld. Handhelds are a lot more convenient to hand out to others that may not have them though.
Also nice when I'm driving for hours - hop on a repeater and bullshit with someone for a while. It's like a voice version of IRC.
Also the emergency communication aspect - having worked with a few departments, I've got most of the area's fire/SAR/dispatch freqs in my radio.
>Be me, ridin the moto one night a few years ago>Dark, probably 2200-ish, find a trail back to the main road to head back to the truck parked about 8 miles away>One SAR vehicle goes by>Another SAR vehicle goes by ... Hmm, that's weird.>Third SAR vehicle approaches, turns headlights off, slows down and rolls the window down to talk to me>"Seen a little girl around here?">"No... missing person?">"Yeah.">"Need a hand? I'm first-aid trained, know this area well, have a radio/map/GPS, and obviously... dirt bike.">"Shit ... uhm, yeah ... we're staging at [[parking_lot]], talk to command there. BTW, thanks.">Ride to [[parking_lot]], talk to command, "We've got a moto team on the way, but yeah, go ahead and radio-check and hang out for a while. Might need ya.">dial in "DC SAR 1", radio-check, good>wait ~15 mins, moto team shows up, talk to them and command, good without me>"I'm going to head up [[trail]], will radio when i'm back at truck.">Back at truck, radio back, thank-you-good-nightPic related, from that evening.
