motorola t 800 talk about radios
saw a different set of radios at sam's club, talk about t 800 that evidently will link up via bluetooth to cell phones and you can communicate where there is no cell service. seemed interesting to ...
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From what I can tell, the locator feature works when the radios are connected to the phone app and the phones are receiving a tower signal. If the phones are off-grid, the app uses off-line maps. Radios in this price range typically don't have GPS receivers and phones don't either...phones triangulate your location from nearby towers. Off-grid messaging between to phones uses the app to send messages over the radio's frequency.
There are a handful of hand held ham radios in the $150 price range that do have built in GPS receivers and support texting...but you have to be willing to obtain the license.
There are a handful of hand held ham radios in the $150 price range that do have built in GPS receivers and support texting...but you have to be willing to obtain the license.
