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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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12-10-2000, 11:43 PM
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Community Rank: Sightseer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: moline, il, usa
Posts: 55
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2 Way Radio
I would like recommendations from anyone with experience using FRS 2 way radios in the parks. What worked well for you. Thought this might make a nice stocking stuffer for the family. Thanks in advance for your help with this.
Tom D:
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12-11-2000, 11:40 PM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
Posts: 760
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Re: 2 Way Radio
I guess if you were using them that way it would work. I imagined using them from one park to another, and I notice that the range is 2 miles. Great if you are in the same park, not so good if you are further appart.
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12-12-2000, 12:46 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Poinciana, Florida
Posts: 9,422
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Re: 2 Way Radio
We just got back two days ago from the World and saw a lot of folks with the FSR's.
Before our next trip we will get some too. Friday I sat on the wooden sidewalk on one side of the Country Bears Jambore while my wife sat 25 feet up street from me. Niether of us saw each other for 15 minutes! We were both sure we were in the proper meeting place! 
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Don
OS 4/90, BC 2/95, WL 1/97, Cont 1/98&1/99, Poly 12/99, DxL 2/00, CBR 12/00. Upcoming WLV 11/01 & 1/02 |
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12-27-2000, 09:51 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Panama City, Florida
Posts: 231
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Re: 2 Way Radio
WE used the 2 way radios (Motoroala's Talkabout 250) and they were great. We were always in the same park though.
A good example is: I was at Epcot at Spaceship Earth and my dh and kids were at France and we had no problem at all. They were a life saver.
Plus, we only had to change our channel 1 time the whole time we stayed at Disney. (and we were there in July for 10 days)
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12-30-2000, 12:18 AM
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Community Rank: Tourist
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 15
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Re: 2 Way Radio
I have just purchased four of the Panasonic radios and testing (playing) them around home found that they only had a range of a 1/4 mile these are the top of the line radios how have ranges been at WDW now we live in a built up area but its a large area to. 
Shcurti
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12-31-2000, 10:50 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Panama City, Florida
Posts: 231
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Re: 2 Way Radio
That is what happened to us. I had orginally bought the Cobra's Microtalk 1 and I didn't like them at all. No range to speak of. Everyone kepted telling me, getting the Motorala's and I so, I did. And I loved them! They work great!
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01-01-2001, 05:18 PM
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Community Rank: Passenger 
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Mineola, NY USA
Posts: 25
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Re: 2 Way Radio
Last September we were a group of 18 and rented 4 radios from "In Touch" communications!
They were the best! We could always reach each other, and they had a huge (like 200 mile)range which came is extra handy when my uncle was hospitalized at Celebration Hospital (a long story).
With those radios (I think they were actually cell phones) we could call each other all day long. Check in with the cousin at the hospital and she could call me and talk to her kids...and for all those times when the group split up and we needed to know when and where to meet!
We all agreed it was the best $50 we each spent that week. It was around $50 per radio for the week and the "in touch radio guys" programmed them with our names, and left the radios for us at the desk at the Poly the day we arrived. We just left them there for the company to pick up when we checked out!
Diane
BC in just 10 days, yipee!!!
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