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122.75
. . . and 122.85 — Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180
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Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? tim PP-ASEL – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – 122.75 I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs. Thanks.
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Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications?
Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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Does the person on the ground have a station license? What callsign are they going to use on an aviation band? I would recommend CB or a pair of handy-talkies. Bob Gardner – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – 122.75 I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs. Thanks.
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I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs.
The frequency assigned to the person on the ground.
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Ignore the other anal retentive responders who are implying that you’re a bad citizen if you use an aviation hand held on the ground without a station license. Make up a call sign for your partner, keep communications brief and professional, and use 122.75 or 122.85.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs. Thanks.
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Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications?
jump up when talking…. — Bob (I think people can figure out how to email me…) (replace ihatessppaamm with my name (rnoel) and hw1 with mediaone)
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Ignore the other anal retentive responders who are implying that you’re a
And pay close attention to a curmudgeon that can’t speak up without spitting on others… H.
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FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to.
Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola
walkie-talkies will do the job just fine – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – H.
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pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to. Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels.
They have their own allocated frequencies – 14 of um. FRS is one of the Citizens Band Radio Services. In FRS "Rule 2 – Authorized Locations", it says specifically that they can be used aboard an aircraft: "Aboard any vessel or aircraft registered in the United States, with the permission of the captain, that is within or over any area of the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over international waters…." tim PP-ASEL
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"Aboard any vessel or aircraft registered in the United States, with the permission of the captain, that is within or over any area of the world where radio services are regulated by the FCC or upon or over international waters…."
Great! Then the original poster’s problem is solved, get a pair of walkie talkies on Ebay (dirt cheap) and a decent headset/intercom adapter and he’s in business. 10x HECTOP
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CB is AM (amplitude modulation) at around 30 megahertz. FRS is FM (Frequency Modulation) at around 460 megahertz as I recall. They will never talk to each other, but they are used similiarly of course… The cool thing about FRS is they work great and the antenna is only an inch long. CB is about two feet long- a bitch when flaring in a crosswind…
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to. Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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No license required, batteries last a long time, can use a 12v supply too, can buy ear "buds" and lapel microphones, all kinds of stuff.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – CB is AM (amplitude modulation) at around 30 megahertz. FRS is FM (Frequency Modulation) at around 460 megahertz as I recall. They will never talk to each other, but they are used similiarly of course… The cool thing about FRS is they work great and the antenna is only an inch long. CB is about two feet long- a bitch when flaring in a crosswind… pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to. Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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antenna is only an inch long. CB is about two feet long- a bitch when flaring in a crosswind…
Gee, I love when things are being put in perspective like that 
— HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to. Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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If you promote a rock concert in any city where I happen to be, I’ll yell at you also… Denny
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – through 7 and probably called an "anti-kid-playing-army knob") but when I "tuned" both radios to this same setting, all other the traffic disappeared. In the one’s I had (Motorola) there were 32 security codes per channel (14×32 total) so that gave quite some choice. I used’em at a rock concert I was promoting to yell at people (you do get to yell a lot in that business), and in the city there wasn’t much interference actually, even when I called from 4 blocks away. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com
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Ignore the other anal retentive responders In the above context anal retentive requires a hyhen.
would that be the chicken on the top of the coop?
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The only problems with FRS is the frequencies can be jammed with kids playing army and the range is limited (0.5 watts), 2 miles max. I just went for some GMRS units for skiing, Oshkosh, etc. Crystal clear even at 4 miles.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – CB is AM (amplitude modulation) at around 30 megahertz. FRS is FM (Frequency Modulation) at around 460 megahertz as I recall. They will never talk to each other, but they are used similiarly of course… The cool thing about FRS is they work great and the antenna is only an inch long. CB is about two feet long- a bitch when flaring in a crosswind… pardon my ignorance, does FRS use same frequencies as CB or it has it’s own range? In any case, that’s what I meant by walkie-talkies, those little yellow Motorola jobs with 14 channels. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com FRS (Family Radio Service) radios are cheap at Wal Mart & they’re legal to use for pretty much anything as far as I know. They’re low-power UHF walkie-talkies & should work fine as long as you have line of sight with whoever you’re talking to. Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine H.
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Desperate, I read the darn directions. Not only is there a separate channel, but there’s some sorta other knob inside the thing. I forget what this other knob is (it’s labeled "A, B, C . . ." instead of channel 1 through 7 and probably called an "anti-kid-playing-army knob") but when I "tuned" both radios to this same setting, all other the traffic disappeared.
Same thing happens if you just turn them off.
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| Isn’t 122.75 restricted to air-to-air communications? | | Is CB legal for airborne use? If so, then a pair of Motorola walkie-talkies will do the job just fine | | H. Tried this years ago. You won’t be abvle to hear anything unless you can plug the CB into your audio panel, or plug a good headset into the CB. Edward Zager Focke Wulf 149JZ
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through 7 and probably called an "anti-kid-playing-army knob") but when I "tuned" both radios to this same setting, all other the traffic disappeared.
In the one’s I had (Motorola) there were 32 security codes per channel (14×32 total) so that gave quite some choice. I used’em at a rock concert I was promoting to yell at people (you do get to yell a lot in that business), and in the city there wasn’t much interference actually, even when I called from 4 blocks away. — HECTOP PP-ASEL/BOFH http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com
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The only problems with FRS is the frequencies can be jammed with kids playing army and the range is limited (0.5 watts), 2 miles max.
I have a set of the Motorola talkies. Damn things were $150.00 each when I bought ‘em three or four years ago and now you can get ‘em for, what, three cents? Anyway, I used mine mainly for skiing (family stays on bunny slopes while I’m on the back bowls!). First year I used ‘em, I just about went crazy listening to all the traffic on them. Traffic got even worse over the past couple of years. Desperate, I read the darn directions. Not only is there a separate channel, but there’s some sorta other knob inside the thing. I forget what this other knob is (it’s labeled "A, B, C . . ." instead of channel 1 through 7 and probably called an "anti-kid-playing-army knob") but when I "tuned" both radios to this same setting, all other the traffic disappeared. – Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180
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I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs. Thanks.
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122.75 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I will be flying in the Los Angeles area and need to communicate with someone on the ground during an aerial photography session. Which frequency can I use? I understand there are certain frequencies available for unicom, but I don’t want to interfere with any of the nearby FBOs. Thanks.
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