[LegendHasIt]

I picked up a Baofeng UV5 last year, and am pretty impressed with it. Well made, flexible and amazingly inexpemnsive.

Am planning on picking up a few more for my SHTF ‘buddies’

There is a rather large user group for them:
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/baofeng_uv5r/info

Got mine on eBay

[cherry]

where can you buy them in person?....like with cash?..which is just as good as money....

[usconservative]

I picked up a Baofeng UV5 last year, and am pretty impressed with it. Well made, flexible and amazingly inexpensive.

if you get the Diamond 2m/440mhz extended antenna for it, it GREATLY increases its range. I can hit my repeater @ home from Downtown Chicago sitting in my office on the 11th floor of my building. That's about 28 miles as the crow flies. (Although, my antenna is VERY high up...)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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