Gotcha, I can speak exactly to that situation. The reason we made a point of discussing the frequency in that segment of video was that we were switching FROM the low-watt FRS to the 2M, but we had HAM's on both end (KE7FYQ). That was a rare scenario as generally we run on FRS freq's (you'll see XO Alpha on the radio often) or for long distance stuff freq's in the 152-154mhz range, commonly referred to as "Race Freq's" that many company's PCI, Rugged Radios, etc are supporting. As a ham I struggled to understand how operation on these race freq's was allowed as there is no licensing, no real etiquette outside of the repeaters (such as those set up by BF Goodrich & others), etc. But for the last 20+ years at every desert race both foreign and abroad there are hundreds of teams using modified HAMS and/or radios set up by PCI, Rugged, etc. King of the Hammers for example has 100+ teams each day running these radios and thousands more spectators chiming in. Not sure where the regs fit in there. Why choose 146.460, easy we were not only trying to chat with each other but comms into the local village where there is a local that monitors the 2M and we had the best hope to find them there.
