Comms thread bois What can newbies get into that isn't Baofeng. Anyone use Yaesus?
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How do you get that bunny ear look? I'm guessing those are An/PRC 148s with the 48" goose necks. Are the military thatles HAM radios by the way? or is it satellite?
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My wife got me a memefeng for a gift.
She got me the tri-band model. Did she fuck up?
I don't know anything about comms but if your wife cares that much about your interests to gift you something like that it means she's doing good enough and you're a lucky man for it.
Buy a TRI PRC-152.
They dont give you the programs to program it yourself though. I like the aesthetic though. It's hard finding an FM blade 48"
Software programming is a crutch anyway, unless you’re preloading a fuckload of repeaters because you’re traveling up the entire coast or driving cross-country. The TRI PRC-148 and 152 radios are literally miles ahead of all the commercial radios available in terms of durability.
This, count your blessings memefeng user
>miles ahead of comercial radios...
Well no. I mean they look badass and have aluminum housings, but honestly it's just a baofeng in a fancy housing and a 250 dollar markup.
Triband model is good. Spend some time on google finding real info instead of asking the A(utistic)-Team on Jow Forums.
Yeah in the last thread they said to just get a yaesu over baofeng and the tri/trc
Their spurious rejection, and overall signal quality is significantly better than the bulk Chinesium radios. Beyond that, unlike most commercial LMR radios, they’re rated for submersion. My XTS5000 shit the bed after my last adventure involving water. The batteries are fucking massive (~5k mah) and there’s AA/CR123 adapter packs readily available. The aluminum 152s are too new for a solid verdict, but a buddt of mine has absolutely beat the fucking piss out of his 148 and it refuses to die.
Lately I've been on the fence between getting a new off-the-shelf BaoFeng (BF-F9 V2+ HP) versus a used/refurbished Moto XTS off eBay. In the past I had good experiences with XTS series radios in EMS since those things are built like bricks and can take quite a bit of of abuse. The only thing I'm not sure about is programming the XTS, since I know Motorola has its own proprietary software.
I have a rudimentary knowledge of radio tech in terms of being limited to FRS/GMRS frequencies since I don't have a ham/amateur radio license.
Fuck off with your LARP shit. For that price you could get a used Motorola Saber or other HT and the gear to program it and have a real piece of rugged gear that was actually used by military and police, or you could get an HT from Kenwood/Icom/Yaesu that will blow it out of the water functionality wise but won't be as durable or have as good of filtering as the Motorola.
>Software programming is a crutch anyway
Except on shitty Chinese radios like that one where it's necessary to actually adjust the squelch beyond 0-10 or name the channels.
>The TRI PRC-148 and 152 radios are literally miles ahead of all the commercial radios available in terms of durability.
In your fucking dreams. You could literally break bricks with a Motorola Saber and it will still work.
>My XTS5000 shit the bed after my last adventure involving water.
So you skimped and bought the non rugged model for lower budget customers, then complain that it doesn't perform the same way as the separate rugged model that specifically adds those features? The rugged model meets both IPX-7 and MIL-STD-810 immersion testing requirements. Also, even the big 3 make amatuer radio gear that's IPX-7 rated.
>and there’s AA/CR123 adapter packs readily available
It's not like you can't get those for Motorola and amateur radio gear.
Why does CB never get any love in these threads? It's much more practical if you want a decent level of interoperability. Even amateur radio enthusiasts who travel will get CB radios in their cars because there's a much higher chance of getting a contact on that than there is with people you don't know on the amateur 2 meter and 70 cm bands, even when considering the wide coverage that repeaters on the amateur radio bands have.
Cool op here. I'm looking at a motorolasaber and an XTS5000 now. Do you think the thales 48" would fit on there?
If you can't even look up the connector type to see if they're compatible, then this stuff probably isn't for you.
>I have to work
Ugh fine its SMA to TNC, Motorola radio to antenna connector.
I've got a baofeng and a yaesu ft60r
The yaesu is better objectively and what i would take to war. I still use the baofeng 9/10 as if it breaks lol it's 20 bucks.
Just get a real AN/PRC-117G I mean lmao am I right
Are there any rugged handheld CB radios, or rugged handheld radios that could be used on CB frequencies with AM modulation?
Is anyone here interested in long range HF communication? I want to play around with it some, especially with the inexpensive sub $100 kits these days like the QCX that aren't limited to a single frequency like the old Pixie kits were.
My only problem is the privacy issues such as activity on all frequencies used by amateur radio operators already being recorded during amateur radio contests to enforce the contest rules, all morse code and digital mode traffic being automatically run through software that converts it to text for easy computer aided searching, and the crowd sourced radio direction finding that amateur radio enthusiasts are now messing around with and will inevitably find a way to automate. It's basically all the privacy issues you'd get from using Facebook or Google unless you spend a significant amount of money on equipment that will run high enough power to do voice modes effectively since no one has made software that automatically converts all voice traffic to text yet, but even then I've heard some amateur radio enthusiasts are already working on making that a reality as well.
A VE7 here
My baofeng's stock antenna is so shit REEEEE