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Just curious if anyone out here in the Poalverse has desires, current experience, current use, etc - of anything having to do with HAM radio and all that.

Might be a useful and productive endeavor to combine like minded with legacy tech.

Just curious if anyone out here in the Poalverse has desires, current experience, current use, etc - of anything having to do with HAM radio and all that. Might be a useful and productive endeavor to combine like minded with legacy tech.

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A quick note. Pofung or baofeng uv5 hand helds are $25 and do 70cm and 2 m. They are glorified programmable midland/motorola walkee talkees.

Its illegal by fcc to use them on those fmrs and gmrs frequencies (certain bands on 70cm set aside for non licensed use) because they have removable anntennas and are more than a 1/2 watt. But if you buy enough for your family and listen and lurk to local repeaters you can get your technicians license and have local comms. Not a bad way to dip your toe in the water. If shtf then all bets would be off at that point.

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We use the Baofengs, BF-F8HP and some similar at 8w. You can get a licence and a call sign for the GMRS channels for I think 75$. Good for 10 years or so. We use them when offloading and have pre-programmed channels for many of the off-road race teams. They're really easy to program using "chirp" which is free to download. The MURS channels I think are supposed to be limited at less watts.