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[momria]

Does anyone have experience using 2 way radios in the parks? Our motorola 14 channel radios would realy come in handy on our upcoming visit.

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TTFN, momria

[Brant]

Well, I have a lot of experience using 2-ways at a competitor's theme park that I work at, which shall remain unnamed (but seeing how I live in Toms River, NJ, take a wild guess ;> ). Major drawback was distance, at our park, people using family radios had decreased distance limits, maybe due to the employee's radios, or maybe due to the high number of other families using them, not sure exactly. Other than that, I saw about a dozen families using them on my last trip to WDW in June, so they must have a good rep.

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[MrsPotts]

I probably have the same Motorola ones you do! They were given to me, and I never thought I'd use them, but we gave them a try in July.

We didn't use them too often, mostly when we were meeting my parents somewhere. Sometimes we would pick up other conversations, but for the most part the worked great!

[Cruella]

We just got a pair earlier this year and so far they have only been used for Scout camping trips, but my DH and the boys will use them this weekend at Hershey Park and, of course, we will be using them on both trips to WDW this fall. They have worked well so far and we are betting they'll serve us well at WDW. We do have the ones with the privacy frequencies, so I think that will cut down on picking up other conversations.

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[colesmom]

We used ours on our trip to WDW in June and they worked great a couple of times we couldn't hear each others, but I think it was because we were in the very interior of a ride or the channels had accidently gotten switched. We, unfortunately, don't have the ones with channel lock, but we do have the ones with the privacy codes. We will be taking them with us again in October.

[Dave Marx]

We tried family radios over the New Years holiday. We didn't get the kind with the additional private channels feature, though. There were enough families using them that every channel we tried was in fairly heavy use. This meant that we were far more likely to hear other people's calls than our own, and after a while we started ignoring the calls, or turning down the volume. Since we weren't paying close attention we didn't connect with each other very often.

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[WildForWD]

Just got back from using them this weekend at HersheyPark in Pa.
It was often hard to hear the other person clearly when at any kind of distance.
HP is not an overly large park but if we were any more than 1/2 the park away they became very garbled.
With the privacy channel we had no trouble finding a clear channel to use.
I am worried that at Disney if we get further than a land or two away we will have trouble keeping in contact.
Oh well we will try them anyway!
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