[Scan-DC] Re - Fairfax County Policy

[b_thom@juno.com]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:45:48 -0500 (EST) zerg90@webtv.net (pS) writes:
> Looks like you could buy one of the radios and hook it up to the
> Internet. It is not prohibited by the form. You could probably hook 
> it
> up to a FRS radio and broadcast it also. Peter S

You'd be lucky to get any farther than a mile with an FRS, despite what
the manufacturers say. I admit, there was that one lucky hiker who, lying
injured well up on the side of Mt. Hood OR in the summer of 2000, was
heard by kids in McMinnville OR eighty miles away. That is my favorite
FRS story.

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:26:12 -0500 (EST) Gary Chatters <gc@Radix.Net>
writes:
>
> A quick look at the FRS rules indicates that broadcasting is not 
> permitted.  One-way transmissions are allowed in very limited
> circumstances.
> 
> gc

Curses.