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RachlN76

26/12/2016 at 4:27pm
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For Christmas, my son asked for spy gear. I managed to get him some toy night vision goggles, but after that I was struggling.

So I went to Maplin and got walkie talkies! Ive been thinking about getting them for camping holidays for a while now, but not got round to it. This seemed like a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

BIG success! He's 7 and his sister is 9 and yesterday they were the most played with toy. They played spy missions, and sent messages from upstairs to parents downstairs, and today she's gone out with dad while I stay in the house with Henry to see how far the signal travels.

Can't wait to use them when camping, and I might (just might) be a bit less neurotic about them wandering off!

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26/12/2016 at 7:34pm
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Mmmm...some years ago I had to suffer two kids running round my tent talking to each other on their walkie-talkies! They were close enough to each other and shouting loud enough to be able hear each other without them. I have never been so relieved when I heard mother calling them back for dinner.

I am sure they give lots of fun to kids but not great in the confines of a campsite unless they use them well away from the tents which may contain miserable old gits trying to get an afternoon nap.

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They used to be popular a few years ago Rach for the very reason you suggest,keeping in contact with the kids while on site.They can be picked up from the likes of Amazon,Argos etc.
They are also good for car to car contact when traveling :-)

Ray Clayton

27/12/2016 at 10:05am
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our kids had them years ago.
came in handy afew times over the years.
Funny was in the garage and found one of the four yesterday. If i find the rest i wonder if they still work.
they must be 15 years old lol

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RachlN76

27/12/2016 at 6:15pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 26/12/2016
Mmmm...some years ago I had to suffer two kids running round my tent talking to each other on their walkie-talkies! They were close enough to each other and shouting loud enough to be able hear each other without them. I have never been so relieved when I heard mother calling them back for dinner.

I am sure they give lots of fun to kids but not great in the confines of a campsite unless they use them well away from the tents which may contain miserable old gits trying to get an afternoon nap.

Ah. That's a very good point. Will try to teach a modicum of etiquette when using them. I'm hoping that some of the novelty will have worn off by the time we take them camping because yes, they have been using them to tale to each other whilst actually sitting right next to each other. They didn't see what was wrong with that!

Brian-A

27/12/2016 at 7:12pm
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Quote: Originally posted by RachlN76 on 27/12/2016
yes, they have been using them to tale to each other whilst actually sitting right next to each other. They didn't see what was wrong with that!

Well, nothing wrong at all of course! My kids have been known to text each other when they were in different rooms in the house ...

On a more serious note, we've carried a pair of walkie talkies for a few years now and find thewm quite useful in areas where there's no phone signal (or sur le continent, when a call would cost an arm and a leg )

ficklejade

27/12/2016 at 10:35pm
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I'm guessing you're right and some of the novelty will have worn off by the time you head off camping but it's worth gradually introducing some etiquette.

DS had one when we moved up here - ok, he was just into his teens and forever out with mates exploring often miles away on pathless moors - and it came into its own when one of his mates broke a leg! DS made a call and we were lucky enough to get a signal bounced off a hillside so I could call emergency services.

We use PMRs (personal mobile radios) a lot because of lousy mobile coverage so as Brian-A says, they can be very useful.

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DarrenElbrow

19/1/2017 at 3:21pm
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If you're worried about the kids making too much noise with the radios, get them a headset with mic and earphones. All you hear is their voices, not the transmission from the speakers

Andy Higham

19/1/2017 at 3:25pm
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When we were kids the nearest we got to walkie talkies was 2 cans and a length of string

Hacksaw Bob

19/1/2017 at 4:06pm
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Not the posh version?

Bob61

23/1/2017 at 12:31pm
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I had a pair like that but had to put in my own sound effects..." Calling, calling chshh! Hello chshh! Anybody there chshh!"

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We had some Maplin ones and took them back. Whilst they worked at home we never found a campsite that they worked on. I think it was too many trees.

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