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| 1 2 | UER Forum > UE Main > The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? (Viewed 7477 times) |
Archer
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| | | | Re: The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? < Reply # 22 on 11/11/2018 11:33 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by 2Xplorations Point is there are plenty of cheap legal ways to communicate by two way some licenses like GMRS for example are 10 bucks and postage.
| Only in the States, though. In Canada, GMRS is treated as an extension of FRS, so while it is fully public it also has significantly more restrictions on it (2W maximum, radios must be locked to GMRS/FRS frequencies, no repeaters, etc). As far as I know there is no equivalent to a US GMRS license in Canada - for most people, your (legal) options are the public HF frequencies (CB radio), or the public but locked FRS/GMRS frequencies. Beyond that, it's acquiring an amateur license and using those frequencies, which has it's own issues if all you want is point-to-point comms as everyone has to have their own license.
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| | | Re: The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? < Reply # 29 on 8/23/2019 3:31 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by G10 Photography Buy a Motorola ;). Baofengs are good but they can't scan many police departments with trunked systems but my old pal Mr XTS5000 can and boy is she pretty . I love radios to much..
| Sure, what kind of idiot would buy a pack of two Baofeng (Puxing) GT-1s, complete with the usual accessories & programming cable, for $25 and then download free software like Chirp, when they could buy two 15-year old, used UHF R1 XTS5000 M1s for about $400, two NOS batteries for about $150, track-down a programming cable for about $25, and then be sure to get Astro-Portable CPS that's the same or never version than either radio was last programmed with! And then there's the joy of programming with Motorola CPS! Yep, if you just wanted walkie-talkies for around 1 mile line of site max and that wouldn't be a big-deal if one got lost/ditched/damaged, go with Motorola & not Baofeng/Wounun/Puxing et al... /-/oolie (two Puxing GT-1s, 4 Baofeng 888s, 1 AnyTone 878, 3 Motorola XTS5000s, 1 Motorola XTS2500, 1 Motorola APX7000, 1 Motorola XPR7550e, 6 Motorola DTR650s)
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| | | Re: The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? < Reply # 30 on 8/23/2019 5:12 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by /-/ooligan
Sure, what kind of idiot would buy a pack of two Baofeng (Puxing) GT-1s, complete with the usual accessories & programming cable, for $25 and then download free software like Chirp, when they could buy two 15-year old, used UHF R1 XTS5000 M1s for about $400, two NOS batteries for about $150, track-down a programming cable for about $25, and then be sure to get Astro-Portable CPS that's the same or never version than either radio was last programmed with! And then there's the joy of programming with Motorola CPS!
(two Puxing GT-1s, 4 Baofeng 888s, 1 AnyTone 878, 3 Motorola XTS5000s, 1 Motorola XTS2500, 1 Motorola APX7000, 1 Motorola XPR7550e, 6 Motorola DTR650s)
| LOL! I have 2 Baofengs - the official radio of the Donbass War. I'm also the Ayatollah of Mototola. 10 STXs (800Mhz) 8 Mitreks (VHF) 5 System Sabers (all UHF} 4 MTS2000s (all 900MHz) 3 Astro Spectras (2 VHF, 1 UHF) 3 Maxtracs (VHF low, VHF high and 800MHz) 3 HT1000s (1 VHF, 2 UHF) 2 Astro Sabers (VHF and UHF) 2 Syntor X9000 (one is low band) 2 Spectras (VHF and UHF) 1 Railroad Spectra 1 Saber (VHF) 1 MCS2000 (900MHz) 1 MSF 5000 (UHF) 1 Quantar (UHF) 1 PAC-RT (UHF) Posted by /-/ooligan And then there's the joy of programming with Motorola CPS!
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| GARR1S0N
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| | | Re: The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? < Reply # 31 on 8/27/2019 8:16 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by /-/ooligan
Sure, what kind of idiot would buy a pack of two Baofeng (Puxing) GT-1s, complete with the usual accessories & programming cable, for $25 and then download free software like Chirp, when they could buy two 15-year old, used UHF R1 XTS5000 M1s for about $400, two NOS batteries for about $150, track-down a programming cable for about $25, and then be sure to get Astro-Portable CPS that's the same or never version than either radio was last programmed with! And then there's the joy of programming with Motorola CPS!
Yep, if you just wanted walkie-talkies for around 1 mile line of site max and that wouldn't be a big-deal if one got lost/ditched/damaged, go with Motorola & not Baofeng/Wounun/Puxing et al... /-/oolie (two Puxing GT-1s, 4 Baofeng 888s, 1 AnyTone 878, 3 Motorola XTS5000s, 1 Motorola XTS2500, 1 Motorola APX7000, 1 Motorola XPR7550e, 6 Motorola DTR650s)
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| inloc
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| | | Re: The End of the Line for Baofeng Radios? < Reply # 35 on 8/28/2019 2:15 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by /-/ooligan And then there's the joy of programming with Motorola CPS!
| As big of a pain as the CPS is, I've found Motorola's FPP to be incredibly easy to use. Shame it isn't more widely available. 2x XTS5000s (VHF & UHF) 2x XTS3000s (VHF & UHF) 1x BF-F8HP A few assorted SDRs
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