Guides

An aerial view of a long prairie highway at sunset, one car parked at a gravel pull-off while a second car is a tiny shape far beyond a rise.

Walkie Talkies for a Road Trip: Car to Car in a...

A road-trip convoy is supposed to spread out, and it splits at the exit or the fuel stop, which is when the radio matters. The guide covers the reported reach...

Walkie Talkies for a Road Trip: Car to Car in a...

A road-trip convoy is supposed to spread out, and it splits at the exit or the fuel stop, which is when the radio matters. The guide covers the reported reach...

Seen from the driver's seat of a parked truck at dawn, a CB hand microphone hangs from the cab ceiling above a dark dash tablet, with rows of idling trucks outside.

Do Truck Drivers Still Use CB Radios? What Repl...

Truck drivers still use CB radios for road reports from the trucks around them. What replaced CB for the rest of the job, device by device, and why FMCSA counts...

Do Truck Drivers Still Use CB Radios? What Repl...

Truck drivers still use CB radios for road reports from the trucks around them. What replaced CB for the rest of the job, device by device, and why FMCSA counts...

An illustration of an older mother in her armchair and her grown daughter in a city apartment, each holding a small radio in front of her and talking, linked by one line across town.

Walkie Talkies for Elderly Parents: One Button,...

Where your parent is decides the device: the same house, the same property, or across town or the country. This guide sets out a decision table by distance, what makes...

Walkie Talkies for Elderly Parents: One Button,...

Where your parent is decides the device: the same house, the same property, or across town or the country. This guide sets out a decision table by distance, what makes...

A 3D-rendered illustration of an open drawer spilling spent AA batteries beside a handheld radio charging on a USB-C cable, a green battery icon glowing above it.

Rechargeable Walkie Talkies: Battery Life and C...

The hours on a two-way radio's data sheet often assume a duty cycle printed in a footnote. This guide sets each figure beside the basis given for it, explains what...

Rechargeable Walkie Talkies: Battery Life and C...

The hours on a two-way radio's data sheet often assume a duty cycle printed in a footnote. This guide sets each figure beside the basis given for it, explains what...

Two skiers stand at a rope line where a groomed run with a chairlift meets an untracked powder slope among snowy firs.

Walkie Talkies for Skiing: Resort, Trees and Ba...

Which walkie talkie fits a ski trip depends on the terrain. On resort runs and in the trees, a network radio reaches the group behind a ridge wherever its network...

Walkie Talkies for Skiing: Resort, Trees and Ba...

Which walkie talkie fits a ski trip depends on the terrain. On resort runs and in the trees, a network radio reaches the group behind a ridge wherever its network...

An illustration at dusk: a pickup and two people on a rural road below a cell tower glowing on a ridge, while beyond the ridge a lone hiker holds a satellite messenger up to a passing satellite.

Satellite Two Way Radios: What They Do, What Th...

The name covers four devices: text messengers, satellite phones, true push-to-talk handsets and network radios sold under the label. Here is what two people pay for each over three years,...

Satellite Two Way Radios: What They Do, What Th...

The name covers four devices: text messengers, satellite phones, true push-to-talk handsets and network radios sold under the label. Here is what two people pay for each over three years,...