communications

An interview with Andy Hawkins, President of the Mecklenburg Amateur Radio Society, on location at the 2013 Charlotte Hamfest in Concord, NC.

We talk about some of the standard features found on a typical consumer two way radio and what they do. We also review the Midland LXT118 two way radio.

We discuss how two way radios are used on farms. We also review the Icom IC-F5021 and IC-F6021 Base Station Radios.

In potentially hazardous environments, radio communication can be very important and even critical to operations, yet standard two way radios should not be used because they can make a potentially hazardous situation even more dangerous. These situations require the use of Intrinsically Safe radios.

In this episode we discuss the basics of using CB Radios. We also compare the Cobra 148 GTL SSB with the Uniden PRO510XL CB radio.