I personally hate the Motorola Talkabouts. Motorola decided to put a sub-audible tone on their signal that makes it so that if you have a Motorola Radio you can only talk to someone else with a Motorola radio. I have Icom FRS radios and can hear everything someone with a Talkabout (or any other companies radio) says but they can't hear me.

This feature also causes people with TalkAbouts to walk all over those that don't have them. I'm amazed that the FCC has allowed this to happen. It is really bad because it just makes the range much more limited than it should be.

Don't get me wrong. The Talkabout radios are very robust radios and work well. But I don't use them or buy one due to this "Feature".