>In my opinion the Baofeng isn't a very good radio oh yes, it's quite terrible. I helped my friend pick up a mobile radio from HRO and made him hit our repeate

>In my opinion the Baofeng isn't a very good radio oh yes, it's quite terrible. I helped my friend pick up a mobile radio from HRO and made him hit our repeater, but I couldn't pick up the transmission from the repeater for some reason. as you know, the TX frequency of the repeater is 0.6MHz away from the RX frequency. It turns out my crappy baofeng was being overloaded by the 5W transmit power my friend was blasting.