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27/7/2010 at 8:53pm
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Depends on how old your kids are. When we went abroad camping with mine we bought them 'special' watches and they had to return every 20/30 mins. If they did they got a treat, if not they were grounded. When they were older we got them cheap mobiles. But each time they had to tell us where they would be and were warned of dangers of not being where they say they would be. Worked for us every time.
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27/7/2010 at 9:01pm
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yes we have never had any problems, got ours from maplins, we just asked our girls not to show the sets off to friends, just keep them for when needed etc
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14/5/2013 at 2:12pm
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Remember mobiles have limited coverage in the more remote sites especially in Scotland so would not depend on them.
I agree for kids buy the cheap radios with the codes on them and they will love them. We have lots of them running around but i always give my daughter one of our 5 Watt full power licensed radio to ensure we keep in contact without the prying ears.
But surprisingly the jump from 0.5 watt to 5 Watt sometimes only gives a difference of 100 metres range. So the cheap radios are just as good all you lose out on is build quality and for kids thats not an issue.
You can also get ones with a range alarm and if the kid goes too far it alerts you. Basically its a power meter that goes off when the received signal drops but this can be terrain dependent so not very accurate.
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14/5/2013 at 6:02pm
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We got our son walkie talkie when he was at that age where all he wanted to do was to go off an play on the playground (which was in another camping area).
When I called I never used his name - just his nick name so he knew it was mum or dad. Majority of the time he ignored it. We also has random people answer as ours was limited to 8 channels, so occasionally you got someone else's mum telling the kids dinners ready get back to the van! We also did get someone shouting for help we are stuck down a hole but assumed this was someone messing about seeing as ours has a limited range and I don't think there were many holes in the campsite to fall down.
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14/5/2013 at 8:16pm
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That's why you need to get ones with the selectable tones and that stops all the cross conversations, it only add about 5-10 quid onto the price.
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, we laugh every time we hear the story.
