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BaoFeng Radio Silence protocol

 
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Is that how people spy on cellphones?
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the bao fang fang files

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nothing wrong with a Baofeng ham radio if you want quick emergency communications within your county, plus it can use GMSR and FMR frequencies also has NOAA capabilities. Ppl dont like it cuz its Chinese and not a Yeasu or an expensive one... Short band radio is short band fuckin radio. I got alicense and as long as they can here you and you can hear them.. then fuck what they say. Best bang for your buck for 40 bucks meanwhile spent 80 bucks on some bullshit walkie talkies that barely get 1 mile in open ground.
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For emergency short-range communications, they're fine. Otherwise, just be careful what frequency you're on and what power you're transmitting.
Get the programming cable and use CHIRP software! Manually programming them is a pain...plus, you can label your channels with the software. Something you can't manually do.
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For emergency short-range communications, they're fine. Otherwise, just be careful what frequency you're on and what power you're transmitting.
Get the programming cable and use CHIRP software! Manually programming them is a pain...plus, you can label your channels with the software. Something you can't manually do.
 Quoting: Finding Nemo DEAD


CHIRP is a godsend TBH- and yes Baofeng radios suck manual programming. Luckily my local HAM club has all the repeaters in the area in a file so you can just DL it straight to the radio.
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I have two BaoFeng radios and also use CB radio for comms....




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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
Where B kath C
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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
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Didn't they stop selling these and make them illegal to buy?
4th iteration

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I don't know

guess I'll find out
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The newer models sold online are no longer able to transmit on FRS and GMRS frequencies. I have one that does and one that doesn't.

Working on getting my ham licence.
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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
 Quoting: 4th iteration


Didn't they stop selling these and make them illegal to buy?
 Quoting: Agent 99


No the old ones are illegal, they changed the programing so you have to carry a Ham license to transmit, otherwise only thing you can do is listen.


Good thing i bought 8 of the old ones years back AND I carry a Ham license.
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Don't use that cheap Asian crap. It's the radio of anqueefa losers who blew all their parents money on drugs. You need RELIABLE gear.
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Don't use that cheap Asian crap. It's the radio of anqueefa losers who blew all their parents money on drugs. You need RELIABLE gear.
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...better throw away my Yaesu gear!
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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
 Quoting: 4th iteration


Didn't they stop selling these and make them illegal to buy?
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No. You can still get them on Amazon.

You can listen to them. But you cannot speak on them unless you have a Ham license.
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Aside from the civilian use, BaoFeng (Chinese) and Yaesu (Japanese) 2m/70cm can easily be modded to "go out of band" thanks to their DSP tech. On the 2m band you can listen to FM wide (Standard FM Radio) 88-108MHz, VHF Aircraft (108-136MHz), 2M Ham (140-148MHz), and Civil/Govt (150-180MHz). Then on UHF it's wide open from 200MHz-1.2GHZ (tri-band models).

Fun times, they even had extra features for digital coms, in other words modems, and encrypted comms.

Great days to have a HAM license.
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nothing wrong with a Baofeng ham radio if you want quick emergency communications within your county, plus it can use GMSR and FMR frequencies also has NOAA capabilities. Ppl dont like it cuz its Chinese and not a Yeasu or an expensive one... Short band radio is short band fuckin radio. I got alicense and as long as they can here you and you can hear them.. then fuck what they say. Best bang for your buck for 40 bucks meanwhile spent 80 bucks on some bullshit walkie talkies that barely get 1 mile in open ground.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73188045


Agreed. My Baofengs work the repeaters just fine. Too many snobs out there.
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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
 Quoting: 4th iteration


Didn't they stop selling these and make them illegal to buy?
 Quoting: Agent 99

I had to buy two for work. I looked into upgrading to a Motorola for my vehicle, but they cost $1000 compared to a $60 Baofeng and a magnetic truck antenna. The guy at the two-way radio store told me that my Baofeng was illegal. I'm not going to be driving my minivan on forestry roads very often and if so only in convoy so I put that idea on hold.

At the same time, the two-way radio store was all out of stock because of supply chain issues and microchip shortages. Driving the one lane mountain forestry roads with an illegal radio is better than no radio at all. I can't vouch for the adequacy of the setup. I only used it riding in convoy behind a truck with a legal setup. I could hear all the traffic calls on the road, but I was maintaining silence. I don't know how it transmits.

Another thing about Baofengs is that if you know the frequency you can set the radio to any channel. If a person is travelling on forest roads across the province, you can't get every channel in the province programmed into your radio. No problem with a cheap Baofeng.
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If the SHTF , a license is worthless ?
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Baofengs are great for stockpiling to hand out, but for a personal radio get the Yaesu FT65R and unlock it so it can transmit on FRS, MURS, GMRS, etc. So easy to do, literally takes 20 seconds.
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I got one
forgot the charger stand
now I have to get another one
 Quoting: 4th iteration


Didn't they stop selling these and make them illegal to buy?
 Quoting: Agent 99

I had to buy two for work. I looked into upgrading to a Motorola for my vehicle, but they cost $1000 compared to a $60 Baofeng and a magnetic truck antenna. The guy at the two-way radio store told me that my Baofeng was illegal. I'm not going to be driving my minivan on forestry roads very often and if so only in convoy so I put that idea on hold.

At the same time, the two-way radio store was all out of stock because of supply chain issues and microchip shortages. Driving the one lane mountain forestry roads with an illegal radio is better than no radio at all. I can't vouch for the adequacy of the setup. I only used it riding in convoy behind a truck with a legal setup. I could hear all the traffic calls on the road, but I was maintaining silence. I don't know how it transmits.

Another thing about Baofengs is that if you know the frequency you can set the radio to any channel. If a person is travelling on forest roads across the province, you can't get every channel in the province programmed into your radio. No problem with a cheap Baofeng.
 Quoting: Pickle Lake


They're not illegal. It's illegal to transmit on a HAM radio if you're not a licensed HAM, even if you're not transmitting on HAM frequencies.

That said, nobody actually cares as long as you're not bothering anyone. The only people to ever get in any real trouble were ones who were intentionally interfering with emergency services, and considering what they did they got a slap on the wrist even.
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bao feng
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Yaesu VX-8DR - better choice.
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bao feng
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Yaesu VX-8DR - better choice.
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Mr. Moneybags over here! FT65 not good enough fer ya huh?tomato
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Any of these newer software-controlled radios almost certainly can and will, if necessary, be bricked via shutdown signals broadcast on the radio’s i.f. frequency. Remember what happened in NOLA after Katrina? Do not plan on them working when TSHTF.
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Just got a Baofeng UV5R III,10 minutes learning how to use Chirp qucik download of useful frequencies for me in my location and marine vhf

An its possibly the best 25 quid i've ever spent

Don't knock em,ok they have limitations and in a full on shtf tptb will be using ecm but in that kind of situation radios would be useless,you'd be better off buying postage stamps and pencils...and get em whilst you can





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