Costa Rica

FRS / GMRS Radios
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I am new to site and was hoping I could get some good advise. I have a friend in Costa Rica who is wanting to use a walkie talkie to talk to another driver while driving, he would like maybe 2 mile range in a generally flat area. I have a couple of questions being I am not too familiar with all this.

1 . I have been looking at Motorola mh230r and Motorola mr350r, he does not care about features , will there be a difference in range on these?

  1. I have read about the GMRS mode, can he just put it on that in Costa Rica and get more range and does he need the FCC license if he does?

thank you for any help on this , I am going next week and I am hoping to help him out.

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US radio regulations and the FCC have no bearing in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is a sovereign nation that has its own laws concerning radios and how they are used.

Your friend would be better served by looking into what the laws are there and what radios would be legal for him to use there. Radios intended for use in the US may not be legal to use in Costa Rica and could possible get your friend in trouble.

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I suggest you invest into a POC radio they models that has VHF or UHF as backup you can program frequiencies on to use at shorter ranges when POC fails.How poc works is it works off ceulluar towers and not locked to only one tower it switches automatically.Talk2me is one company i suggest you can have the radios on a public network with 1 private channel or have the whole network locked just for you on one channel and if you want more then 1 channel on your private network you pay extra but usaully thats not needed.Can talk to people worldwide when it comes to POC networks. 79.99 a year for the global service that lets your radio work worldwide.

It will come with USA and mexico and canada coverage for 1 year with your purchase of any radio but if you want to use radio worldwide you need to upgrade the sim which i mentioned the price.

if you don’t want the backup UHF then i suggest you get this model as it basicalls a phone if you end up wanting to use that feature too. (Links removed. Please read the Forum Rules before posting. - Admin).