wimpywade94

just a quick questinon, wondering if citizen band frs radio's (motorla talkabout, etc) can be used with other brands of frs radios. ei: buddy has radio shack frs, i have motorola talkabout, will we be able to communicate back and forth, or are the channels differnt?

thanks
wade

DrBeau

FRS is FRS. Now whether they both have subchannels or not is a different story. Lets say you use channel 14-sub channel 14. If his only does regular channels then he can only hear you and not transmit to you. If you both have radios that don't do subchannels then you should be fine.

wimpywade94

but what if i was on channel 14-1 or something, is there a way around the subchannels?

thanks
wade

DrBeau

I would think there was a way to not use the subchannels, but I don't know.

Robinhood150

Yeah, you don't have to use the sub channels. So, if you have sub channels and your buddy doesn't, just select channel X sub channel 0.

wimpywade94

cool, just curiouse cause i was going to by 2 for the next truck for trail runs, but other friends of mine have differnt models and brands and whatnot.


wade

Erich_870

Like everyone else said, they will work fine, just make sure you "synchronize" your radios in the beginning What I mean is make sure that everyone is on channel X and sub channel 0. I can't tell you how many times some one will be on a different sub channel, and they can hear you but they can't talk, so you ask them if they are on the right channel, and they say of course but they aren’t and they just don't seem to get that they have to be on sub 0

Erich