Walkie talkies....

AllTorque

Anyone use em?? If so, any recommendations? Am cycling up Ventoux in a week or so and am definitely going to be going at a different pace to my girlfriend (she'll kick my ass before anyone asks).

Thought some walkie talkies could be fun and maybe useful

Speck

Check the regulations in France before you go, ie can you use them without a Radio Telecommunications Licence. Check frequencies, power output and mode etc of the unit and do a search on Google or similar.

herbie12

I've got a pair I use when I'm snowboarding - saves on the mobile phone bills and is a lot easier to find people when everyone's got one...

They're Motorola T5022s I think, seem to have a pretty good range, but that gets reduced significantly in the mountains... plus the battery life drops dramatically in the cold!

I don't know the full law on their use in Europe, but mine are definitely legal and don't require a licence. I'm pretty sure most 'domestic' ones will be working in the same frequency range, so you should have no trouble.

lateralus

PMR446 is legal throughout Europe. That's the frequency range used by the Motorolas mentioned above and all the ones you see advertised on the likes of WIggle. I have a pair of Cobras, which work fine. They work much better with line of sight, though - they theoretically have a range of 2-3km, but in practice it's more like 1km (around town, maybe better up on a mountain).

McBain_v1

Don't some phones have the Push To Talk facility that allows them to function like a walkie talkie?