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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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€230? Seems a bit steep for a walkie talkie. For that price I’d probably opt for a Bluetooth headset.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Sasha320320, looking at the technical specifications it states "Dual ISM-band sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz". ISM bands are for Industrial, Scientific and Medical uses for other purposes other than telecommunications,, so using them for telecomminications whilst I think is allowed note that it states "In the frequency bands designated for ISM use, any communications equipment operating must tolerate any interference generated by ISM applications" However for use on the ski slopes I doubt that there would be much interference from other ISM transmitters.
Elsewhere on the Milo website it says "The range between two grouped Milos™ in clear terrain is usually at least half a kilometer (third of a mile), often more." If that range is suitable for your needs all well and good, however conventional PMR446 2 way radios (as used in the UK and the rest of Europe) would be expected to have a range of several km in open ground.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Thanks all - looks like all the innovation is in the hands free functionality (as opposed to doing anything materially different around radio transmission / range).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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as opposed to doing anything materially different around radio transmission / range
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but it is materially different - you can only talk over a very restricted range. A group you are cycling with, or windsurfing very close to. Or skiing down the same piste with - but not if it's a long piste and one of the back markers has a tumble and the others are already down the bottom. A bluetooth headset, as @hammerite suggests, seems superior in many ways. If you are with your mates on a lift, and gathering together at the bottom to get on another lift, do you really need to chat all the way down?
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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If you want to use a radio to call out a rescue, then you need a proper VHF radio and knowledge of the local frequencies.
If you want to chat over a respectable range ... then that's your PMR446 type stuff. Which will cost more like twenty bucks a unit, not several hundred. It seems less useful and much more expensive.
The Milo "technical specifications" don't say what the power is.. wikipedia suggests devices using ISM are "low power" - stuff like garage openers.
You an legally buy an unprogrammed VHF radio with up to 7 watts of power off Amazon... I think I know which one I'd prefer. And proper radios are hard man black, not toy orange 
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You can legally buy an unprogrammed VHF radio with up to 7 watts of power off Amazon... |
But not necessarily legally use it (if the frequencies and/or power levels are not authorized in the country you're in).
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