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Nope. Baofeng UV-5R lists: Frequency range: [TX] 136 – 174MHz, 400 – 520MHz [RX] 136 – 174MHz, 400 – 520MHz, 68-108MHz (FM Broadcast) The FRS band

• themodelplumber 6y ago
  Like I said, the UV-5R isn't licensed or marketed as an FRS radio...this isn't a general Baofeng complain-a-thon, it's a thread that started with an unreasonable complaint that FRS users cause harmful interference on the ham bands. You hopped on with Baofeng tech specs, and I humored this, but now I have to say you've completely derailed the thread into nothing but Baofeng specs, a seemingly meaningless exercise given the thread contents. If this thread is going to continue for another week or two, could we at least get back into the proper context? In fact it's extremely rare to find an FRS user with a radio like a UV-5R. Most of them are using Motorola Talkabouts, or Cobras, or Midland radios. Another part of the reason for the lack of popularity is that people like to buy brand-name, popular radios that their friends recommend, and another part is that Baofeng does a better job advertising their FRS radios that are purpose-built for FRS. People shopping for an FRS radio like to buy something that says "FRS" on the box. (The only person I ever met who used a Baofeng on FRS frequencies was a licensed GMRS user, and their use was 100% OK, of course)