airplanemechanic
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How is it this shit comes up after every election? Somehow we always fumble our way through for 20 months or so and then we have an election and BAM! Suddenly we find a foreign culprit who is suddenly enemy number 1
Very suspicious
Bring it on. Home guard here standing by. I just picked up a Baofeng handheld UHF/VHF radio. I can now transmit and receive on any frequency in those bands, including ham, police, fire, and EMS if the shit completely hits the fan.
Not that I would even think of breaking into those frequencies right now but if shit happens, it's going to get some use.
Wolverines mother***ckers!
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Dude that's just a dual band radio. It can't transmit on fire or EMS. Its a dual band HAM radio that you can't even use unless you have a HAM license.
Absolutely it can, that's why the FFC ruled against those Baofeng radios. It won't do the digital trunked systems like they have in the cities, but everything out here in the country is still in the analog 100-400 mHz range.
I don't intend to do any transmitting but if we go all out war, it will be put to use because the FCC won't matter anymore.
The "FFC" never "ruled against" beaofung radios. They are common. That's just a HAM radio. It's a receiver on other frequencies but not a transmitter. I promise.
Here is your "banned" radio for 30 bucks on Amazon:
Amazon.com
Sure you can buy them, they're all over Ebay. I paid $5 for this one at Goodwill
But look at this:
"Bench testing has shown the actual transmit range of an expanded 150/450 MHz UV-82 to be:
VHF range 136-174 MHz expands to 128-176 MHz
UHF range 400-520 MHz expands to 384-524 MHz "
UV82 series Frequency Expansion - Miklor
All of the surrounding counties are using the 100 mHz range, 154.7400 for my local PD. Baofeng put the fix on the UV-82C, this is one of the older models thye FCC had a problem with. It does make for a nifty scanner.
Buy A Baofeng While You Still Can? FCC Scowls At Unauthorized Frequency Transmitters
Yea right. It doesn't work. The FCC doesn't like them because they can receive outside their parameters. Not because they can transmit. The transmit would sound awful and wouldn't stay on frequency. All local PD's are trunked systems and have been for decades. Even if you DID manage to make that work the only thing you'd hear are a few airplanes which you wouldn't know what to tell them anyway.
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