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Nextel and Uniden Posted by Scott Paterson [Email] ![]() ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Walkie-Talkies ?, STICKMAN, Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:27:52 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
We used to use Nextel for nationwide walkie talkie mostly because early on my wife used them for her employees - she does large event productions (did the Lucasfilm holiday party for a few thousands this past weekend), but Nextel prices started to become uncompetitive and even with their huge use of phones, Nextel was inflexible so the company moved to cingular and abandoned the walkie talkies - another factor was that they used regular wired up James Bond type walkies during shows anyway that they rented in large quantities (50 at a time). I got to get wired up when I did the networking for their 1,500 person network (wireless and wired) at VMWorld last year. That said, they sure worked. I even walkie talkied with a Saab Master Tech (Buck in chat) from west to east coast, but since I use a Sidekick for remote server administration, I went full-on TMobile and moved my cell number from Nextel to TMobile.
We have two six mile Uniden walkies we used when we went out to Burning Man. Those worked great. I recently turned them on here and found some folks who use them to chat - they don't even know each other, just chatting on the airwaves (not that they have Unidens - I was just picking up their signal on mine - but they couldn't hear me so perhaps it was ham radio folks).
I really like Uniden. The radar detector I used to use (useless in the bay area traffic) was very good, the 5.8Ghz phones we have from them are great, and the radios work wonderfully.
fwiw,
-Scott
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