Long Range Two Way Radio
I will be caravanning across the US to remote national parks with friends and venturing into areas with low/no cell coverage. Does anyone here have experience with good long range two way radios with...
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philh wrote:
Friend set me up with Baefong radios and programed them for me. I applied for and received GMRS license. I was going to wait for the lower license, cost to finally be approved, but decided to pay the current fee.
Friend did make one mistake in programming, apparently it was set up to simultaneous broadcast on ALL programed memory channels. He feigned change in how the program worked between Win 7 and Win 10.
Radios work very well. I need to add a short cheat sheet to the radio for the different channels. I have about 26 channels programed.
when programming this type of radio it is very easy to assign a name for each channel. usually around 12 characters available. Eliminates the need for a cheat sheet. you can toggle between what you name the channel and the channel frequency
Chirp is a common program for programming these radios and is available on the web for free. Easy peasy. Just make sure you follow the FCC rules on channel power, bandwidth, etc. and even though the radio can program a given frequency or channel that doesn't mean it is legal for use on those channels. FCC has been cracking down on these imports, and they have started making units FCC compliant.
