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Thems are the basics, gang, but the fun doesn't stop there. Below are some other options to keep in mind that may help to optimize your capacity for audio assault.
1. Rehousing the units: Take all the guts out of the walkie talkie, and rehouse them in something more befitting a rock'n'roll monster such as yourself. Something with cobras or skulls and junk. Or, if you're feeling especially daring, something with cobras AND skulls. Another possibility is to house the transmitter unit within an instrument, like your cheap chinese keyboard or your circuit bent TMX Elmo. Imagine the possibilities for audience participation.
2. Utilize the "send tone" button: Most walkie talkies have a "send tone" button. Snot-nosed kids like to use this particular function to pretend they know morse code when they are playing army or between sessions of grab-ass. We can do better, right gang? Consider turning this into an on-the-fly guitar mounted optical theramin, or simply a loud-ass noisemaker. Not even the $450 dollar professional wireless systems have any bells and whistles like this.
3. Other products which can give similar results: Mr. Microphones, those crummy 80's devices and their inumerable bastard step-children (see Police Academy 2 for details) which transmit audio directly to your FM radio can be used in a similar fashion, with the Mr. Microphone as the transmitter and an FM radio as the receiver. Cordless house phones can be used if you know how to make them run off 9volt, but I'm not going to get into that. Anything that transmits audio from one device to another without wires is fair game. Who knows, maybe you can hack those hands free cellphone earphone/microphone adapters and jam with your buddies across the continent with your free nights and weekends. I'd try it myself, but I've never touched a cell phone, and I ain't starting now.
That's all for now, gang. Keep rocking the most.
Aimless J. Lackluster
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1. Rehousing the units: Take all the guts out of the walkie talkie, and rehouse them in something more befitting a rock'n'roll monster such as yourself. Something with cobras or skulls and junk. Or, if you're feeling especially daring, something with cobras AND skulls. Another possibility is to house the transmitter unit within an instrument, like your cheap chinese keyboard or your circuit bent TMX Elmo. Imagine the possibilities for audience participation.
2. Utilize the "send tone" button: Most walkie talkies have a "send tone" button. Snot-nosed kids like to use this particular function to pretend they know morse code when they are playing army or between sessions of grab-ass. We can do better, right gang? Consider turning this into an on-the-fly guitar mounted optical theramin, or simply a loud-ass noisemaker. Not even the $450 dollar professional wireless systems have any bells and whistles like this.
3. Other products which can give similar results: Mr. Microphones, those crummy 80's devices and their inumerable bastard step-children (see Police Academy 2 for details) which transmit audio directly to your FM radio can be used in a similar fashion, with the Mr. Microphone as the transmitter and an FM radio as the receiver. Cordless house phones can be used if you know how to make them run off 9volt, but I'm not going to get into that. Anything that transmits audio from one device to another without wires is fair game. Who knows, maybe you can hack those hands free cellphone earphone/microphone adapters and jam with your buddies across the continent with your free nights and weekends. I'd try it myself, but I've never touched a cell phone, and I ain't starting now.
That's all for now, gang. Keep rocking the most.
Aimless J. Lackluster
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http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=service_home&id=family
The modifications as listed in the FCC are based on the transmitter and antenna of the transmitter: meaning power, frequency, radiated power and peak envelop power. The actual radio, outside of these restrictions, are open for development and experiment as long as you do not modify these parameters. Lastly, as depicted in the page from the FCC, the FRS bands CAN be used for business related work; which includes the transmission of music. For other bands under the FCC control, it is expressly stated that business can not be transacted, also expressly stats music can not be the purpose of the transmission from the operating station. The FRS bands differ from most if not all of the other bands in their operations.