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Nothing concrete yet @Acadian Adventurer

The Rinos are a favorite of mine. They'll even send text over FRS. It's sorta secure-ish in my mind because it's rare for someone to be monitoring FRS for data packets

What is the minimum y’all recommend for personal comms as well as the “comms specialists” setup

Neat concept for a portable base radio

I have a yaseu 3200dr in the car with a 57 in whip. Works fantastic. And a FTM400xdr at home

Here are some of my radios. Aside from the Baofeng UV-82HP, the rest can do analog, P25Conventional, and P25Trunked. Three of the portables and the mobile base station they are sitting on can do multi-band (136MHz through 861/870MHz). The portable off to the right is a single band, UHF-High only. AES and DES encryption is also possible with all except the Baofeng.

What kind of hearing protection can we use and still hear our radios?

Or anything that would integrate with a BF-F8HP

Without a crazy price tag

I was thinking about that, wasn't sure about it tho! I'll try it out

I found ear plugs that have a hole for low decibel noise that is compatible with some radios, gonna try that out

Well i went with the better than no Comms route, until i can budget out a better one.

I know i know, its baofeng

You'll never need more

I do feel i could use a better antenna though

well, shiiit, good to know.

yeah its a sainsonic

@Yeetasaurus Rex - Nothing wrong with starting with basic.

Ideas for a cheap mobile that has the same coverage of freq as a baofeng. Setting my second rig and need radio and antenna

Plan on tx only on 2m and murs

@LoudPills - http://www.miklor.com has a crapton of cheaper radios reviewed on his site. This is a great resource for insight and tutorials on basically anything cheap radio.

@[VA] JediComms that base station has a unity in it? I found a guy in Oregon with a cheap unity mobile but he’s a dumb cb’r and won’t ship it. Got it from an ex-railroad police car he bought at salvage for the hemi engine.

@redbeard - Yes, it is an XG100M Unity. Great radio.

Yeah I want one. I might try calling the closest UPS store to that guy and arrange a drop off. See if I can send them a payment to hand him when he drops off the radio. Only wants like $250 for it with the good control head

@redbeard - You mean the touch screen like mine here?

Yeah pretty sure it has the same head

Even if it didn’t idgaf I just want a unity

@redbeard - There are two control heads - CH721, which is a "dumb" CH and limits the MRU to hold one personality. The touch screen, CH100, is a "smart" CH and allows the MRU to hold 10 personalities. The CH100 is pretty cool but It can be fickle. I had one on the base station but it wouldn't play nicely so I finally swapped it for a 721.

My only issue is being able to program trunked systems for monitoring. I wonder if there is any hacks like there are for Motorola

I was told even an older radio like a 7100 has blocks in the software for major trunked systems like Ohio marcs

@redbeard - It isn't the radio, it is the radio programming software that makes it "impossible". Without system admin permission for the particular trunked system, you won't get a pass.

PS MPU5 features give me a boner

Too bad us civilians can’t get them

Anyone know of something similar in the $1-2000 range?

Is it legal to hack your HAM to communicate on MURS, CB, FRS/GMRS frequencies as long as you don't transmit? Or is mere possession a crime?

@Deleted User constitutionally no

@Deleted User - The FCC has regulations about transmissions/transmitters, not reception/receivers. Any radio can receive anything it can tune in and hear.....but if that radio is not type certified to transmit on a particular frequency and you do, then your action can be considered illegal.

Anyone use a BF-F8HP When I plug in a headset it plays audio out of the headset and the integrated speaker Wanted to know if that's a fault or if there's a way around it

I have the UV-82HP and don't recall it ever doing that.

Damn, gonna call them up

Article was written in 2016 but still has relevancy. https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/militia-radio-frequencies

Anyone hace recommendations on a burner phone

Yeah walmart 25 bucks. Smart phone with android. Tracphone. Service is 20 a month for unlimited talk and text, with 1G data. 2 G is 25, 3G is 30.

With a flashed OS couldn't you just use signal or is osmocombb not compatible?

Ohh my bad.

The tracphone from walmart I spoke of, has a removable battery. Right now you can go in mask and gloves, fully covered, and get one...no big deal.

Ended up going with the 58 inch mfj 1414 dual band for the mobile 2 meter cheap rig. Picked it up for 38$

I can help with Ham questions

Ham antennas are a legit joke. I bought a comet dual band that was rated at 250W and proceeded to melt it in half while driving and talking on my 100W radio.

I think this sums up most of our coms

@redbeard comets are sposed to be good shit...surpirising. don't they have a warranty?

Everything I own is cheap trash. Why not my comms too? Haha

It’s better than nothing

Is there a way to connect a 2 pin connector to the aux port of my electronic ear muffs and just use a clip on mic?

Something like this but instead of the ear piece it’s an aux plug

Some of the electronic hearing protection will turn off the external microphones when you plug in, so you can't hear ambient anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viY81m9cYgk

Which ones do that? All the good ones don't.... peltor, sordin, etc.

Oh, you mean electronic earmuffs

Yeah, that's what he was asking about. Some of them do still work

The howard leights will also mount to the ARC rail on a helmet I think

Peltors will as well...

And you can get a set of used peltors for a few hundred, almost not worth trying to janky a setup together.

Pretty big price difference though.

I have to equip two people, so even used that gets super expensive

Just get a lapel mic with in ear and put it under the muffs, bunch of people I know do that.

@Rawhide that’s exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks!!. I have Howard Leight impact sports like in the video and I have rifleman opmod muffs I got off OpticsPlanet. Not sure if it would work well with the opmods but I’ll test them out.

@EDDSkitz I’ll try that out too. I’m going to see which is more comfortable

> Something like this but instead of the ear piece it’s an aux plug @RooftopKorean I'm running that thing lol with some sure fire ear plugs that fit the tip

Gunshot blocking electronic earmuffs that double as radio headphones would be mint to have.

@Deleted User pretty sure that’s a thing

@[MS] Foxtrot795 you're probably right. Not super high priority for me right now since I got some cheap hearing protection that does the job.

Same. I wouldn’t mind having a pair 😂

It exists but I see them for like $600 🙃

My electronic ear muffs cost $30-$40 then I just clip on a mic and plug the aux into them and it works about the same lol

@[CA] SoyBoi that might actually work pretty well lol. Don’t need to wear earmuffs under the helmet just some light plugs lol

“Sonic ear defenders”

$25ish for the plug and mic, a hell of a lot cheaper than some 600 headsets lol I gotta save where I can lol

I have those surefires already, I didn’t think to use them that way. That’s fucking ingenuitive lol

I saw a thread about it (but I had to dig lol)

I meant headphones that plug into a radio, not themselves act as a radio.

Can someone show me to a dual band antenna for 2m/440 that is actually resonant on both bands?

Nagoya NA-320A Just make sure you buy a real one, there are fakes out there that suck.

@EDDSkitz experiencing the fake as we speak

Oof... yeah, they reallllly suck

Peltors connect to a radio

Unless I’m confusing what y’all said

Peltor comtac's can... you just need the right PTT for your radio. They make some without comms that are much cheaper, but are just electronic earmuffs

Correct

I got the dual comms

What radio you have?

UV-5T

R

I haven’t upgraded yet, need a recommendation if you’ve got one

https://disco32.com/collections/push-to-talks/products/nexus-u-94-a-ptt-for-kenwood-2-pin-amplified-for-civilian-radios

You'll need that to use peltors with civilian radios