Student Radios

[Deisel 38]

I'm looking to get some new radios for students under canopy. Anyone have any recommendations or brands/models to avoid?

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Deisel

I'm looking to get some new radios for students under canopy. Anyone have any recommendations or brands/models to avoid?

This thread has most of the info you need:

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4480870#4480870

Especially the last post if you are interested in the Minitor.

[aarco 0]

If you can ,, study on making your own, pain may be, yet many helps have come to the teaching core with powering threw and trouble shooting,

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aarco

If you can ,, study on making your own, pain may be, yet many helps have come to the teaching core with powering threw and trouble shooting,

Whaaaat??? -

His name is "Deisel", not Marconi!!

coitus non circum - Moab Stone

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

We jump Garmin Rhino GPS/radios on the chest strap. They are quite pricey (around $250 per unit), but we need them for all the night jumps we do where entire sticks are subject to landing off the DZ in the desert.

[tkhayes 348]

pretty happy with the blackbox radios. $200 each but 16 channels. we had them programmed so 1-2-3 on same freq. 4-5-6 on same freq, etc, that gave us 5 different frequencies to use at any time.

Batteries did not last as long as I expected, they are pricey but we ended up replaced most of them 12-18 months into use of them. good quality audio and UHF