What are Walkie Talkies?

I have a friend who is urging me to buy some walkie-talkies with long range capabilities. My concern is security. Can conversations be monitored? How secure are they?

Did you know that deer are deaf? I can prove it to you in just a few short words.

My husband, avid hunter that he is, is always looking around for ways to better his outdoorsman experiences with his buddies.

To give you an idea of how gifted they are, I think they actually brought home three deer between the four of them in the past four years.

Get the idea? So here is what I find absolutely amazing.

Apparently deer cannot hear two different four wheelers approaching them at high speed up a mountain. They also cannot hear the high end walkie talkies these four great hunters are constantly talking on.

However, they must have an excellent sense of smell to make up for their obvious lack of hearing because I cannot stand for these men to enter my backdoor after a day of ‘hunting.’

They smell like the ‘earth’ deodorant that they wear (this masks their human smell and makes them smell like dirt…why then is it called deodorant?) and the apparent deer pee that they spray on their boots.

They are rotten.

Logical? I think not.

My kids have decided that the baby monitors no longer need to be baby monitors, but are far more functional as a sort of walkie talkie.

It is nothing at all to hear one child talking to another at the other end of the house through the baby monitor.

I suppose they could have gotten this idea from their father and me.

We’ve had both children in the nursery for years. You see, the nursery is actually attached to our bedroom suite, and we were far more comfortable with them being there.

However, our daughter started school this past year. We thought she was old enough to go to her own room at the other end of the house. The problem was we were both terrified she would need us and we wouldn’t be able to hear her.

So we got the monitors for her to call us on, rather to actually monitor what she was doing.

Wow I didn’t know that. I wanted to add that when I went on a cruise a few years ago a lot of people were walking around with cheap walkie talkies. They even had walkie talkie for the kids.

It really made sense because there was no cell phone service on the ship and this was the only other way to communicate with other people in your party.

It made it convenient because many people were able to meet exactly where they needed to without walking the entire ship looking for their family members. This was also great for teens that were walking around because they would be able to call their parents if they needed anything. It really came in handy.

Voice scrambling has been ruled illegal as per the fines levied against Midland. Although it's in its infant stages, consider FHSS two way radios for privacy instead. It's legal and in a less regulated part of the radio spectrum.

So called "subchannels" are no channels, but rather "subtones" - inaudible signals for opening squelch noise limiter. They provide NO privacy enhancement - contrary to what some say.