The first thing to decide on is what you want from the radio. Once you've nailed down your goals, it's very easy to asses the available options and acquire something that meets your Commo needs/wants, as well as your budget.
I will say this, if you can manually program a Baofeng, you'll have developed the skill to manually program anything with buttons. Its menu is workable, but it's about the most unforgiving, user-unfriendly device with an antenna I've ever had to wrangle. Once you get it down, it's no longer a challenge, but compared to an Icom, Yaesu, Kenwood, or even a P25 Motorola, it definitely involves some finesse.
Roger that. HF is the ultimate grid-down communications tool; however, a good radio is going to be the price of a decent handgun. A lot of folks unfamiliar with the current crop of radios aren't aware of the capabilities. A friend and I regularly email each other using ham radios. It's a pretty broad area that goes beyond just voice communications.
If you don't have interest in the licensing, you can actually squeeze some decent performance out of CB radios.
Is this where the PRC-148 comes in?
What's a good Kenwood model?
Quick Shoutout/Congratulations to Eurodriver for getting his license.
Thanks homie.
That PRC 148 Is getting serious airtime, but now that I've got D Star it's not getting much use
This morning I talked to a guy in Germany from my front yard.
20 miles away from a repeater.
With a handheld.
Not going to be useful when the grid goes down but it's cool while it's up!
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