Must be a severely inefficient duck to only have a two mile range. I'd also
guess that's an ERP rating using an optional TV transmitter antenna.
Marketing from a WalMart sales weenie for sure. I'll bet it's really only
about 800 kilowatts or so raw power. I wonder what kind of battery it uses?
At 06:28 PM 4/29/2000 -0500, Bill Aycock wrote:
>The latest WalMart flyer, in todays paper has this:
>
>Family Radio
>Two-mile talk range,
>500 megawatts of power
>for Camping,skiing,and
>keeping in touch.
>
>All that from a rubber duck?, and not even water cooled?
>Bill- W4BSG
>-
>Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill
> Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
> (in the N.E. corner of the State)
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