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And that's pushing it

In an emergency I’m sure you give your left nut for a little bit of extra distance if it’s what you need

With 10 watts and the best antennas money can buy and the most I've gotten out in the desert was 8 miles

Where I live in open farm land with houses you're lucky to get 3 miles

Now that's with hand helds... a 40 watt mobile or base will obviously get you a little more

But 10-15 miles is really it with simplex.

I eventually wanna get one in the car but idk how to wire it

Most plug into the lighter

In what respect? I deal with adaptive equipment in vehicles, may be able to help

so im seeing a ton of mixed answers here. Are UV-5R's trash or what?

They are cheap Chinese radios

let me rephrase that. Are they worth getting if you have nothing?

Yes

The answer is hardly no to that question lol

They can just break easily... in operating conditions they all work the same at the same power levels.

If you have nothing else, they work for emergency comms and talking on the fly. For single channel plain text.

Whats your opinion of BF-F8HP

But for a few hundred you can get some really good ones that are made in Japan instead and are waterproof and tough

What is something i wont destroy in "elk season"

@Yeetasaurus Rex do you get wet often?

always moist my dude

This is getting sexy

@[CA] SoyBoi I own a few BF8's honestly I love them because if they break it's no sweat

in colo, so mostly dry, but damn when it rains it rains

I've destroyed Motorola's

@Yeetasaurus Rex look into yeasu, find a waterproof one and call it a day

Mines drop dust and water resistant

@[TX]YimYam what rsdio

i used to use xts5000's back in the uniformed days, but as you said, that shits impossible to get setup as a civ

@Yeetasaurus Rex getting them is easy, not cheap, but easy

@[TX]YimYam I've heard good things about those

Only $52 comes with 3800mah battery 2x chargers head set clip and retention strap

Oh and a really antenna out the box

Is there any common channels if SHTF to look out for to see if anyone's out there 🤔 let's say you need help or some shit

Not really

Kinda, but not really

Depends on the area and no guarantee someone is listening

https://www.radioddity.com/products/baofeng-gt-3tp-mark-iii-two-way-radio-3800mah-battery

> @redbeard I've been looking at the APX series, but I've always held off because I have 25 licensed UHF channels from the FCC and most of the people I work with use standard UHF channels. @EDDSkitz nothing about an APX limits you from operating on an analog uhf channel if the radio is a uhf model or multiband model.

@redbeard really? I thought they were only 700/800/900

My channels are in the 500 business band

> Getting even business band channels licensed is expensive, and P25 digital even more so. If you're just talking with your crew, the FRS bands tend to be fine for most. @EDDSkitz itinerant channel licensing is cheap and easy, and you can specify what emissions mode you want for no extra charge at all. We have all of our set up for all emissions modes just because.

@redbeard yeah, that's what I have

Cheap if you don't yourself, but I paid a company to do it so nothing got messed up... the government sucks

*do it yourself

Yeah the APX is available in vhf, uhf in two ranges, 700/800 in one radio, and 900. Then there are dual band models, and multi band models. Mine is an APX 4000 in vhf

Oh, okay... I'll have to look into that again...

What did the 4k run you?

APX 7000 with vhf and uhf range 1 and the FPP option is ideal. Or an APX 8000 with vhf/uhf full/and 7/800.

I traded an XPR 5550 vhf mobile for it, so I’d say about $500ish

I priced out a 6k a while back just for shits and it was like 2500 or something

Was just wondering if the uhf only stuff is cheaper

But that also was with the software

Our software for the CP200's was like 800 bucks 8 years ago

My 7000 xe was $2400, brand new sold out the back door of the federal depot haha

Lmfao

Software is all online so pirate copies are easily obtained

And I have depot level software so I can activate all required features without paying for them

Do you know if the encryption is on the non 700/800 models? I know you're not supposed to use it on 500, but ya know....🤷‍♂️

Oh, I guess that would be software locked huh?

You can use it on any freq the radio is capable of. We run aes 256 on FRS all the time lol

😂

Okay, maybe I'll have to look into a few of the lower end models again

There’s a lot of surplus XTS 5000 out there worth grabbing

Was just on ebay... lots of 4k 400-512's out there for 500-600

Would just need a programming cable and NATO wired PTT for my peltors

Yeah and that

...

That’s nice because these radios are meant to work with all that hot shit operator gear like peltors

So adapters are easy to find and work properly

Yeah, I have some specialty gear made for the baofengs to work with all that

Amplified PTT and vest mounted antenna

The up side is we use kenwoods at work and I use my peltors there too, so same PTT

:barf

Yeah, but they work 🤷‍♂️

I had 150 Motorola CP200's until a few years ago

So do Hi-Points but nobody is telling people to buy them in the armory lol

When I sold them that's when I was looking at buying a couple APX's

Cp200 has been a workhorse for awhile in the business world

I mean, think what you want but they work

But even Motorola makes the distinctions between business radio and mission critical radio

Yeah, but I've destroyed more 200's than uv-5r 😂

Yeah, I'm probably gonna grab 2 of these 4k's

I don’t think ‘work’ means what you think it does haha. How’s the desense from nearby transmitters? How’s the spurious emissions that are wasting your output power?

That two pin mic connector is no where near water resistant, it’s a funnel to pour water straight onto the internal pc board

Yeah, but most people never notice that stuff

“The more you know”

I open all mine up and use conformal coating, I can drop mine in the water

People don’t know what they don’t know and everyone skipping by all those major defects doesn’t teach anyone

And have

I agree, but most people think $350 for a yeasu is expensive

Well you can’t conformal coat any of the button pads or inside the volume pot and that stuff WILL corrode

‘Most people’ will say that then spend 2k on an AR

So they just have a poor idea of what radio is and how much proper radio comms cost and act accordingly because of everyone acting like a buttfang is the holy grail

Really the o ly reason I run the baofeng iver any of my cp200 or the kenwood I have is they are front panel programmable and literally everyone uses them so I never know what channel I need to be on.

True FPP is a nice asset but when you put it in the hands of the unwashed you end up with paint ballers all talking shit unknowing on the local sheriff frequency

Lmfao... except VERY few government agencies aren't on P25 at this point... they usually just end up pissing off the local HAM club

That’s a wide brush you’re painting with. My locals here are all vhf and uhf analog except for the state police