For what radio?

Discone antennas are wide spectrum and will do ham and scanners

Anytone 778

And yeasu ft65r

Also baofeng

Look into a "diamond" brand discone antenna

What do y'all use for Comms? I'm pretty well versed with my Garmin Rino and my GMRS stuff.

Nothing concrete yet @Acadian Adventurer

The Rinos are a favorite of mine. They'll even send text over FRS. It's sorta secure-ish in my mind because it's rare for someone to be monitoring FRS for data packets

What is the minimum y’all recommend for personal comms as well as the “comms specialists” setup

Neat concept for a portable base radio

I have a yaseu 3200dr in the car with a 57 in whip. Works fantastic. And a FTM400xdr at home

Here are some of my radios. Aside from the Baofeng UV-82HP, the rest can do analog, P25Conventional, and P25Trunked. Three of the portables and the mobile base station they are sitting on can do multi-band (136MHz through 861/870MHz). The portable off to the right is a single band, UHF-High only. AES and DES encryption is also possible with all except the Baofeng.

What kind of hearing protection can we use and still hear our radios?

Or anything that would integrate with a BF-F8HP

Without a crazy price tag

An earpiece under over-the-ear earpro could work.

I was thinking about that, wasn't sure about it tho!
I'll try it out

I found ear plugs that have a hole for low decibel noise that is compatible with some radios, gonna try that out

Well i went with the better than no Comms route, until i can budget out a better one.

I know i know, its baofeng

You'll never need more

I do feel i could use a better antenna though

The sainsonic antenna that comes with that one is pretty good, a lot better than the stock uv5r antenna.

well, shiiit, good to know.

It says sainsonic right?

yeah its a sainsonic

Nice

@Yeetasaurus Rex - Nothing wrong with starting with basic.

Ideas for a cheap mobile that has the same coverage of freq as a baofeng. Setting my second rig and need radio and antenna

Plan on tx only on 2m and murs

@LoudPills - http://www.miklor.com has a crapton of cheaper radios reviewed on his site. This is a great resource for insight and tutorials on basically anything cheap radio.

@[VA] JediComms that base station has a unity in it? I found a guy in Oregon with a cheap unity mobile but he’s a dumb cb’r and won’t ship it. Got it from an ex-railroad police car he bought at salvage for the hemi engine.

@redbeard - Yes, it is an XG100M Unity. Great radio.

Yeah I want one. I might try calling the closest UPS store to that guy and arrange a drop off. See if I can send them a payment to hand him when he drops off the radio. Only wants like $250 for it with the good control head

@redbeard - You mean the touch screen like mine here?

Yeah pretty sure it has the same head

Even if it didn’t idgaf I just want a unity

@redbeard - There are two control heads - CH721, which is a "dumb" CH and limits the MRU to hold one personality. The touch screen, CH100, is a "smart" CH and allows the MRU to hold 10 personalities. The CH100 is pretty cool but It can be fickle. I had one on the base station but it wouldn't play nicely so I finally swapped it for a 721.