One year at Championships...I can't remember which year. I asked Pit Admin if we could use a 2-Way Professional Radio. Not a "walkie-talkie".
Something like this:
http://wwww.factoryoutletstore.com/c...S-Series-.html
We was on a UHF freq that did not interfere with the event radios, and they gave permission to use the 2-way radio from pits to stands. But the radio could not be on the drive team of course.
Is it a case that these rules say DO NOT USE "walkie-talkie" but if you have a professional 2-way radio, that they give you permission to use it? Anyone else gotten the "ok" to use a 2-way radio?
I don't view a 2-way radio as a walkie-talkie. I have shown the same radio to some of the Regional Events FTA/Pit Admin and District Events FTA/Pit Admin, and sometimes they said "ok" sometimes they said "no" even when I showed them it was not a "walkie-talkie". I assume if they started to allow 2-way radios, that everyone would have them. This year in Indiana, we had the same FTA for all the events we went too and was told "no" at the first event so I assume the ruling would be the same for the rest of the season events we attended, so we just left the 2-way radios home for every Indiana event we went too.
A Push to Talk phone is the same thing or a phone call works the same too....That's what we do when 2-way is not allowed.