Motorola Walkie Talkies and PMR446 Radios

Questions and Answers About the Motorola TLKR Series of Walkie-Talkies

Whether you are keen on hiking and adventuring or want to have a reliable communications device in the event of an emergency, Motorola TLKR walkie-talkie radios will help keep you in touch with your family and team both indoors and outdoors. Motorola walkie-talkies are portable, rugged and high-quality devices, and eBay is your source for TLKR portable radios. Furthermore, you can find accessories for these walkie-talkies on eBay.

For starters, TLKR walkie-talkies have up to an eight-kilometre range, depending on the specific model, and you don't need any sort of license to operate one. They have internal VOX circuitry so that the device can respond effectively to your voice as well as five different call tones to choose from. There is a headset jack for optional headphone use and a back-lit LCD display for convenient reading. More of these devices' features including:

• Roger beep
• Up timer
• Room monitor
• Keypad lock
• Optional auto-power

The TLKR walkie-talkie offers two different main modes of use. Channel scan mode allows for scanning of active channels, and, when one is found, the radio stops on that channel to give you an opportunity to choose it. After you have finished using the channel, or after two seconds has passed and the channel is not selected, the scan continues. Dual watch mode, by contrast, allows you to alternately scan the current channel and another one.

The room monitor feature on new TLKR walkie-talkies enables the device to detect voices and noises above a set sensitivity level and then send them back to the listening device. This occurs without the PTT button being pressed. The monitoring walkie-talkie does not receive normal transmissions while it is in this mode.

Under conditions of normal use, the durable TLKR portable radio will operate roughly 16 hours on a single charge. It runs on four AAA alkaline batteries; the battery level meter lets you know how much charge is left. There is a charging cradle that plugs into household current to recharge; this process takes roughly 16 hours. For longer battery life, it is recommended to remove batteries from the walkie-talkie during periods of long inactivity and to recharge them every three months.