Rocky Talkie Mountain Radio Review: Expensive, but Worth It

If you have a household and you similar to beryllium outside, you should person walkie-talkies. In a batch of places wherever compartment sum is spotty, you request a amended mode of keeping way of each different than moving backmost and distant and yelling. Kids love walkie-talkies. There’s thing that my 9-year-old likes amended than signaling backmost to basal camp, “Come in, travel in, marque maine cinnamon toast, over,” erstwhile she’s halfway done her hike.

I cognize this is not needfully the intended usage lawsuit for the Rocky Talkie, the super-popular and super-rugged backcountry vigor that my friends usage for backcountry skiing and ascending multi-pitch climbs. But kids are a batch harder connected cogwheel than galore adults. We’ve been investigating the Rocky Talkies connected play trips each summer, dropping them portion clipped to my backpack and moving astir successful the rain.

We’ve tried walkie-talkies from respective different brands, including cheap ones from Amazon and the standard Midland walkies, but the Rocky Talkies are my favorite, adjacent if—and astir apt because—they are overmuch much costly than different options.

Loud and Clear

The Rocky Talkie comes successful 2 antithetic configurations. The Mountain Radio that we tested uses the FRS, oregon Family Radio Service set that the Federal Communications Commission reserves for astir recreational walkie-talkie users. This is wherefore you don’t usually prime up vigor stations oregon large rig CB conversations connected your walkie-talkie (although I person recovered that you inactive tin if you try)

It besides comes successful a more almighty GMRS version that has IP67 submersible waterproofing and somewhat longer artillery life. Technically, you besides request a licence to run the GMRS version, which I had nary involvement successful procuring for my 9-year-old and 7-year-old. The Mountain Radio, connected the different hand, is casual capable that my kids opened the box, turned them on, and started moving astir utilizing them without me. Which, to beryllium clear, is great!

Probably the astir evident quality betwixt the Rocky Talkie and different radios is that a batch of two-way radios are conscionable handhelds oregon usage gator clips to clip onto your covering oregon backpack straps, but the Rocky Talkie has an ultralight carabiner. I loved this. I person small pockets and deterioration small shorts. If I locomotion astir with a walkie-talkie clipped onto my clothes, the walkie often slips disconnected erstwhile I beryllium down and I suffer them successful the rocks. I emotion knowing that neither my loved ones nor I are going to suffer oregon driblet these.