Hans-Georg Michna wrote:
> Steve Finegan wrote:
>
> >For work in the Serengeti and other parts of East Africa, is radio still the
> >most economical, effective means for communications between vehicles and
> >with bases, or have cell/SAT phones started to make cost-effective inroads.
> >Which technology do most field researchers use today? What are the trends?
>
> Steve,
>
> short wave radio is the classic way. They come as car-based
> boxes and as walkie-talkies. Range is perhaps 10 kilometers,
> depending on terrain structure and weather.
That applies to walkie-talkie, but certainly not to the built-in radio
sets that most minibuses in Kenya use nowadays. The range of these
things is *much* larger and they can easily talk from Masai Mara to
their head office in Nairobi or to a collegue in Nakuru. The annoying
thing is that they are doing that all the time.
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