Comms: Need to Know what you Know

[hatidua]

Good Luck!

That's precisely what will need to be involved!

[bogie]

Not sure on how these work with the frequencies reserved for business use or how to apply. Never looked into it, but I am now.

You can consider MURS - FCC LINK and WIKIPEDIA LINK. These are limited to 2 Watts of power but you can increase range with an external antenna. Motorola makes a MURS Business Class Radio, the RDU2080. MURS are VHF frequencies in the 151 and 154 MHz area.

Given this is the S&P forum I am assuming this is the purpose you are looking to use these for? You can also consider the Baofeng UV-5R+ for this type of purpose. They are not Part 95 Certified by the FCC and you are not supposed to use them on FRS/GMRS/MURS frequencies, but pretty much everyone does. These are dual band VHF/UHF radios that are dirt cheap and work pretty well. Very easy to program. You still will not get the range you want, but that type of range in the city is pretty tough with low power radios with no access to a repeater.

I've seen three UV5R on amazon ranging in price from $33 to $47. The model linked above was $47. I'm wondering what the difference is? Sorry for the newb question.

Edit: All I could find was that the case seems to be a little beefed up on the plus model, but the internals are the same as the cheaper model.

[Singlestack]

The ft60 is a good handheld, though I suggest a longer antenna to go with it too. The AA battery conversion is also a good investment. Singlestack, have you looked into aprs, or have I bugged you about that already? I'm lacking the gps but still can send and receive messages with it.

Street - pretty sure I need a TNC to do APRS?? AFAIK, the UV-5R doesn't support APRS on its own...

[streetglideok]

Street - pretty sure I need a TNC to do APRS?? AFAIK, the UV-5R doesn't support APRS on its own...

Yeah with that one you would. If you go kenwood, handheld or mobile, they have a couple of models with it built in. I'll have to remember who it was that installed the D710 in their dodge pickup on here.

[tactical_2012]

Thanks rbeau they will just be put away in in case shtf

[Irving]

Street - pretty sure I need a TNC to do APRS?? AFAIK, the UV-5R doesn't support APRS on its own...

One sentence, five acronyms.

[SuperiorDG]

One sentence, five acronyms.

Yeah, WTF?

[ChadAmberg]

There's a Yaesu handheld, the VX-8DR, that now has APRS built in to it.

[streetglideok]

Yep, forgot about the vx-8 models.
As for acronyms, look up ham tnc and aprs. The rest will be clear.

[DFBrews]

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