Two way radios on board

[JStarbrite]

I have heard of cruisers using these to keep track of kids on board. How well do they work? I noticed that they require a FCC license. Is this necessary in international water or out of the country? Any suggestions of what brand or model?

[luv2cruise03]

We've taken ours on the last 2 cruises. They work great. You sometimes have to change channels, but it still works. I just got mine at Wal-Mart. We also use them traveling down, since we go with friends of ours. They have 2 and we have 2, so between the 8 of us it works really well.

[chieft26]

We've used them on every cruise to keep in touch, and they work great. I wouldn't worry about the FCC thing....I don't think it means much these days.

[Guest Time2gocruzn]

we have uniden brand w/ 3 mile range. anyone used the unidens b4? have no idea whether they are good or not.:)

[Boston6]

They work fine. If you're looking to buy some, make sure you get ones with lot's of channels so you don't have to deal with others using your channel. I'm not sure of the technical aspects but some have a dozen channels with 10 sub-channels for each. Using the sub-channels you weed out other folks. So if you're on channel 5-4, you'll only get someone who's on 5-4. If you don't have the subchannels, you get everyone who's on 5.