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Anonymous Coward User ID: 73188045 United States 11/25/2021 07:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. |
Finding Nemo DEAD
User ID: 47587281 United States 11/25/2021 07:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. I'm not paranoid...am I? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 73188045 United States 11/25/2021 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For emergency short-range communications, they're fine. Otherwise, just be careful what frequency you're on and what power you're transmitting. Quoting: Finding Nemo DEAD 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. 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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Anonymous Coward User ID: 81136553 United States 11/25/2021 09:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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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Agent MIB
User ID: 79218696 United States 11/25/2021 10:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. You are born with the truth, then taught a lie. |
IAMTHATGUY
User ID: 79280147 United States 11/25/2021 10:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. "Peace in our time? All it took was everybody about to die." “The way I see it, there’s only three kinds of people in this world. Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect.” - Amos Burton |
Pickle Lake
User ID: 79670919 Canada 11/25/2021 10:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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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okie1
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okie1
User ID: 45803568 United States 11/26/2021 12:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. 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. okie |
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What the fox hat
User ID: 81223409 United Kingdom 11/26/2021 02:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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 |