Posted on 07/03/2019 3:26:48 PM PDT by ransomnote
The basic license is easy to get and I encourage people to get them. It took about a week of studying for the test.
“This is politics, not radio”
Yeah I wondered if this was related to the China kerfluffle.
We used to get new crystals for police scanners and listen in on early cell phones and corporate radios. Pretty funny some times
Play around with Chirp, I got one of mine programmed with about 75 repeaters in 30 minutes or less, the next ones after that take 5 minutes....basically just clone them..
Unless you are using a network of repeaters the Baofengs are only good for a few miles, but here in Florida I monitor a Statewide network of repeaters and can talk to people all over the state with a $20 radio, not bad IMO
Now if you are talking HF frequencies, I have a setup where I have talked to people in Europe from my driveway in North Florida...generally it’s pretty easy to make contacts up and down the Eastern Seaboard and into the midwest to states like Texas, Oklahoma, up to Minnesota and into Canada
On amazon they sell and upgraded antenna which allows the cheap Baofeng to work fine...
My research years ago found that the UV-5R wasn’t compliant as it can broadcast 5 watts on the MURS, GMRS and Family bands.
Likely those radios transmit on bands that are reserved for government use.
Radiohead here,
Thanks!
I’ve had my Baofeng for four or five years or so. No problems yet. I call it my Chi-comm.
Do you have a suggestion of one thx
I understand the issue has to how unauthorized radio frequencies can interfere with other radio frequencies.
The Baofeng UV-5r Amazon has package deals I just got two for $40
So it boils down to yet another situation where our laws mean nothing? Great, I’m all for progress./s
FCC enforcement actions occasionally happen, but mostly they’re a thing of the past. All kinds of electronic trash is marketed now without proper testing and acceptance.
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