SMALL TALK

A MUFFLED TWO-WAY RADIO CAN BE DANGEROUS. GME HAS A FIX, WITH ITS TX3350 OFFERING CLEAR SOUND, 80 CHANNELS AND FULL-FUNCTION LCD CONTROLLER.

WORDS AND PHOTOS MARK ALLEN

RATED AVAILABLE FROM: www.gme.net.au RRP: TX3350 $449.00. AE4705 $249.95. WE SAY: Compact; easy to use; full-featured. WE ALL love to chat on two-way radios, whether it’s with fellow travellers about how they’re travelling, strangers about hazardous road conditions, or station workers about accessing land. However, one thing is for sure: It’s a damn pain when we can’t hear each other properly. It’s a situation usually caused by one of two things: the UHF is out of range, or it has poor sound quality and volume. Often, no matter how high we turn up the volume, all we get is louder muffled noise, because the speaker is mounted within the dash or near the footwell. Some radios have an optional remote speaker, but many don’t. The alternative has been a handset with a built-in speaker, which…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2016

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