Last week I stumbled across an old tribe. We were setting up our communication system: phone for the ship, phone for us LAN for us, LAN for Navel security, internet, and radios-o-rama. A fellow delivered our land mobiles (walkie-talkies) while I was watching a shark. (the gulls had scored a baby shark and were busy fighting over it) The units (ICOM IC-F4) had a keypad, but were already preset. Now who can resist test driving a programmable, so I looked up the rental company on the intertubes to see if they had instructions in a PDF. Nope, but I found something else.
The Otaku Patrol Group started as a group of early adaptors (video). In the ham tradition, they specialized in radio and emergency services. Otaku means people with obsessive interests. So we have a Goth tribe of communication specialists. Who better to rent your gear from? And as a personal recommendation, the radios survived the worst storm SF has seen in quite some time with nary a squawk.
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