{"id":381,"date":"2019-10-08T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voxer-blog.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-11-01T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:41:56","slug":"the-problem-with-frs-radios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voxer.com\/blog\/the-problem-with-frs-radios\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with FRS Radios"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture this. You are on a family camping trip to Yosemite National Park. Your kids and significant others are pumped. Before heading off on the adventure you purchase a brand new pair of FRS radios as a way to stay connected without cell service. That way, you can break away from the crowds, or each other for a few hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The FRS radios you decide to buy have a 10-mile range – great! But, when you descend away from one another about 3 miles out, they seem like a flop. Luckily the radios were only used as a fun way to communicate, and not for an actual emergency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why FRS Radios Don\u2019t Cut It<\/h2>\n

Why you ask? Well, the truth is, FRS radios are unreliable. Industry experts recognize the blatant false advertising on radio packaging and are speaking out. In an<\/span> interview<\/span><\/a>, Ben Burns, CEO of Discount Two Way Radio, specializing in radios for police, fire, and commercial purposes stated, \u201cThe box that the radios come in often shows them in the forest, or for emergency communications \u2013 all the uses which you cannot possibly rely on them to deliver\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

It makes you wonder,<\/span> if in an actual emergency would you really want to be dependant upon devices that will inevitably fail you<\/span><\/a>? Think about the ways in which FRS radios fall:<\/span><\/p>\n