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Think of the cheap Baofeng as the little hit that keeps you coming back for more. At least, that's what it was for me. Then I got a used Yaesu FT-817 and used
by lenerdenator 2y ago
Think of the cheap Baofeng as the little hit that keeps you coming back for more.
At least, that's what it was for me. Then I got a used Yaesu FT-817 and used that as motivation to get my general.
I now have GMRS as well, which is one of those hidden gems I wish more people in the public at large knew about.
- teeray 2y ago> I now have GMRS as well, which is one of those hidden gems I wish more people in the public at large knew about. Given how many of the GMRS enthusiasts are just itching to turn it into the zoo that is CB, I kinda wish the public would continue not caring about it.
- lenerdenator 2y agoThe one thing that GMRS has going for it in preventing this is limited range. It's easy to be an anonymous a-hole on CB because there's a decent chance you're far away (like, perhaps even continents away) from the person you're talking to. Unless you have a very high-up repeater and legal limit transceiver, you're unlikely to be able to talk to someone beyond your metro area in GMRS. More likely than not you'll see the person you're talking to at least once a month. This strikes "anonymity" from what I like to call the Greater RF F*kwad Theory, wherein Ordinary person + audience + anonymity = f*kwad.
- kmbfjr 2y agoA caution about type acceptance. Pretty much anything meeting spectral purity and bandwidth requirements can be used in amateur radio bands, but that isn’t reciprocal for other services. Unsoldering a diode to make it work outside the ham bands does not make it legal. Lots of services are now 12.5 kHz deviation, so showing up with a “modded” 25kHz deviation radio is gonna cause grief.
- lenerdenator 2y agoI should clarify: I have a type-accepted GMRS radio and the license for it.