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Old July 24th 06, 07:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Using radio to contact persons on ground while flying?

RST Engineering wrote:
Good advice from Morgans. One problem you are going to have is that the
ground station is going to have a hell of a time understanding what you are
saying due to the cabin noise. One way to overcome this is to get your
"ham" or amateur radio license, which gives you the right to "diddle" with
your radio to get the noise-cancelling aircraft headset microphone to
modulate the radio.


All of my handheld FRS radios (Kenwood & Motorola) have external mic &
speaker connections. If my headset mic didn't modulate the radio
properly, an FRS handheld mic could be used, and the audio could be
patched into an aux input of the headset or an aftermarket cell phone
adaptor.

No license required.