[CQ] [Noisebridge-discuss] Elevator Call Radios for Noisebridge

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Excerpts from Michael C. Toren's message of Fri May 28 20:46:02 -0700 2010:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:56:34PM -0700, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> > > Yup, they are FRS radios.  I've set them up for Channel 8, with
> > > sub-carrier 1, with noise-reduction enabled.
> > 
> > For the hams and radio experimenters in the room, you can tune these in
> > on 467.5625 MHz with a CTCSS/PL tone of (probably / I'm guesing) 67 Hz.
> 
> Annoyingly, my VX-7R allows me to receive on this frequency, but not
> transmit.  (It does not allow me to transmit on CB frequencies, either,
> which I also find annoying.)

Yeah, it's likely not type-accepted for use in the FRS spectrum
(probably not frequency-stable enough), and so they block this kind of
activity.

Thankfully, many radios are easy to modify.

I always found http://mods.dk/ to be a great reference.

Cheers,
jof