By John Ghysels, Special to Technology-Report.com

Like barrels of oil, good pairs of long range Walkie Talkies continue their plunge into and even under the $50 dollar range. It’s good to keep an eye out for bargains, even when you are not thinking about outdoors family adventures just yet. 

Motorola T9500XLR

This radio has decent power and the audio to get out. I highly recommend radios with good power like these for the outdoors, rather that weak .5 watt FRS radios, with are better than toys, but frustrating to use in challenging conditions. I found these units larger than many in this class and a bit under powered at only 2 watts max, but OK.

However, it should be noted that this walkie talkie tends to show up in the “remanufactured” sale list quite often. I suspect this as something to do with the audio problems that others have commented on, or it could be something else. If lots of any electronic product gets returned and resold, it usually means something is systemically wrong with either the design or manufacturing process. In any case, buy with caution.

John Ghysels, 12/20/2008

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