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Re: Legality of "Walkie-Talkie" at the Championship

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Originally Posted by dag0620 View Post
Thats why the rule exists banning them. It has nothing to do with strategy, its simply to keep channels free for event staff to use. Like you said at a normal event there's various channels in use, and with 8 fields going on it will get even tighter. The last thing you'd want to do is stumble across a field channel, or worse the EMT channel and cause confusion.
"Walkie talkies" purchased by consumers typically operate on FRS and would not be on the same bands as the business radios used by event staff which may utilize protocols like MOTOTRBO operating on DMR bands.
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