Yesterday’s experience. Got a group of 5 together for a jaunt up Argentine. Not club folks. Trying to figure out trail communication, me and one other have CB, me and a different other have Ham, but 3 out of 5 have FRS with spare radios to share with me and the other CB guy. So that’s what we went with.
FRS seemed busy, we switched from 6 to 18 right away because 6 had a group using it.
Near the end of the day we got an SOS call on channel 18 from Red Elephant Hill. Someone apparently rolled their ATV, had a broken arm, and was going into shock. They didn’t have cell service, but we did. So we relayed their SOS to emergency services over FRS and cell. Alpine SAR went and got them and notified us later that as was well.
I guess it’s got me thinking about buying my own FRS. Don’t know how it works, if we/they were just lucky to be on the same channel or what, but at any rate glad it all worked out. Just seemed to me that FRS might be the new CB.
FRS seemed busy, we switched from 6 to 18 right away because 6 had a group using it.
Near the end of the day we got an SOS call on channel 18 from Red Elephant Hill. Someone apparently rolled their ATV, had a broken arm, and was going into shock. They didn’t have cell service, but we did. So we relayed their SOS to emergency services over FRS and cell. Alpine SAR went and got them and notified us later that as was well.
I guess it’s got me thinking about buying my own FRS. Don’t know how it works, if we/they were just lucky to be on the same channel or what, but at any rate glad it all worked out. Just seemed to me that FRS might be the new CB.