{"id":22,"date":"2007-05-30T11:57:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T11:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/30\/unsolicited-advice-to-frs-radio-users\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T11:57:24","slug":"unsolicited-advice-to-frs-radio-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/30\/unsolicited-advice-to-frs-radio-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsolicited Advice to FRS Radio Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHere are tips based on my observations on how these have been used the last week or so:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk slowly and distinctly. Speak up, because my volume control only goes up to 10.<\/li>\n<li>Don't press the &quot;Send&quot; button and immediately start talking. Receivers can take a second or two to recognize your carrier signal, and start playing what you are saying.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat any times, or even spell out the digits the second time.<\/li>\n<li>Give people time to write down the first time before you announce the second.<\/li>\n<li>Figure out what you are going to say before transmitting. Get to the point. Don't spend the first 15 seconds doing your William Buckley impression<\/li>\n<li>To get the maximum range, hold so that the antenna is vertical. (Don't nod down to talk into a radio held at an angle.)<\/li>\n<li>Put your radio where you won't keep hitting the [expletive deleted] &quot;Call Button&quot;. You know, the one that makes a chirping sound in every radio at Grand or Giant. Even, better see if the instruction manual says you can disable it completely. Don't make me come find you...<\/li>\n<li>If people keep asking you to repeat, or to have your reports relayed, that is a good sign that you're doing something wrong, or that your radio isn't working right.<\/li>\n<li>If someone is calling out Giant hot period information, your Plume or Atomizer time can wait.<\/li>\n<li>And if someone does call out one of those times during a hot period, they've already made their decision on where they'd rather be, so don't respond by telling them to get to Giant.<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that people who, in person can't shut up, on the radios think that saying nothing during a Giant hot period is being descriptive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Actually, the general behavior is a lot better than my last times here, without all the yakking between the same two or three people asking their friends to \"switch to five.&quot; If anything, the yakking there is comes from the NPS, not gazers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are tips based on my observations on how these have been used the last week or so: Talk slowly and distinctly. Speak up, because my volume control only goes up to 10. Don't press the &quot;Send&quot; button and immediately start talking. Receivers can take a second or two to recognize your carrier signal, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/30\/unsolicited-advice-to-frs-radio-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Unsolicited Advice to FRS Radio Users\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}