FRS Radio recommendations?

[Steuben Jerry]

I've got a couple of those older Motorola talkabouts that still work fine, but I'm thinking of an upgrade and I'm a bit out of touch on the newest and best ones.

I see these things advertised by range (up to 38 miles), but I don't necessarily need to reach out that far, we're usually all within 2-3 miles max. I realize they are line of sight so terrain renders them almost useless even if we're all within the same mile, but I'm wondering if the more powerful ones can "burn through" the terrain a bit.

Smaller is nice too as the talkabouts are a bit bulky compared to some of the smaller Midlands I see.

Love to stay with the cell phones but coverage is spotty where we hunt. What's everyone else use and like/dislike?

 

Edited September 29, 2016 by Steuben Jerry

[Jeremy K]

We always used the Motorola,now we just text . My favorite thing to do as a kid during lunch breaks was to find a chancel other people were using and have a fake conversation about a huge buck that I just shot over a bait pile or something to try and get them to chime in. My dad would just roll his eyes at me.