These people have been so helpful thought I’d pass it along

Can we listen to police scanners on this thing 👀

I appreciate it! This whole chat has been a solid resource

Not really because they are encrypted

Most don’t use ham

Same goes for fire

There are apps for that tho

For sure
I just thought since you can online, this may work

I'm getting the hang of this thing a little! Definitely need to plah with it way more
Thanks man!

Np my dude

Oh and some antenna ideas

GRA-SMA24 144-146/430-440 MHz 2M/70cm Super-Elastic Memory Steel Flexible Vertical Handheld Dual-Band Antenna, 15.75 inch, SMA Female https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VBRF58P/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gzJSEbRX2B3Z2

Authentic Genuine Nagoya NA-771 15.6-Inch Whip VHF/UHF (144/430Mhz) Antenna SMA-Female for BTECH and BaoFeng Radios https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KC4PWQQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_wzJSEbH4PZX6A

42.5-Inch Length ABBREE SMA-Female Dual Band 144/430Mhz Foldable CS Tactical Antenna for Baofeng UV-5R UV-82 BF-F8HP Ham Two Way Radio https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07STB8BD6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_aAJSEb7W5HKE7

The Nagoya antenna is the only one worth buying

And it's not that most police and fire are encrypted, they are digital trunked systems. While many police have gone encrypted, not all, and most fire and EMS is open still.

You can always check radioreference.com to see who's on what frequencies in your area.

Yeah the majority of police comms are not encrypted. Many are analog in the clear including the biggest city on the east coast and others are increasingly going digital but still in the clear and that includes some federal comms.

> Can we listen to police scanners on this thing 👀
@[CA] SoyBoi a scanner is a type of radio, used to listen to many frequencies that it scans between looking for activity. You can do this with a bing fang too but be sure not to allow transmit on those freqs. It’s illegal just to have them programmed into a radio without permission, let alone accidentally sit on your radio and transmit until the battery runs out or they track you down.

@[CA] SoyBoi - It is not illegal (with the FCC) to have Public Safety frequencies programmed into a radio. The illegal action is actually transmitting on those frequencies but receiving them is legal. The FCC has specific rules for transmission/transmitters and doesn't regulate reception/receivers. So to avoid Txing either leave that frequency field blank (if possible) or use a different, not in use frequency (if you have to enter something because the field can't be blank). Additionally, some programmable radios have the option to uncheck a radio's ability to Tx on a particular frequency. If that is the case you are specifically telling the radio that on a particular frequency the radio is Rx only, no Tx.

@[CA] SoyBoi - If you are ordering a BF radio/programming cable and plan to use Chirp, your first exercise should be to programming the NOAA Wx frequencies into the radio. These are Rx only frequencies that allow you to listen to a continuous, looped weather report. When you get your radio to Rx the weather you will have begun to understand how to program and grow from there. There are nine NOAA frequencies total, but the first seven are most commonly used across the US and Canada. The other two are specific to coastal/maritime use in some Canadian areas.

The signal stick and abbree both outperform the Nagoya. Even the sain sonic that came with my gt3tp is better.

Lmfao.... super wrong

Multiple people have tested them on YouTube the results are all the same go look

I have, and you dont have a clue...

Ypu said some shit yesterday that was super wrong too...

Ypu should probably just be quiet and learn instead of acting like you know anything

What can I do without a license?
And can radios be triangulated and tracked?

Not a ron on radio without a license... basically FRS, CB, and business band, but only if they are registered channels to you or a friend.

Can you be tracked, yes... but it's very rare

Most of the cases I can find are towns and businesses using FRS or just random channels

For sure, thanks! Gonna mess around with those and then see about a license

You can listen on ham frequencies without a license. Just can't transmit legally.

I aint got no panties on and i aint worried

Anyone know if its possible to lock out a channel on a uv5r? Id like to proram my local weather in and lock it out so i can still scan

Theres something called busy channel lockout

Neat ill check into it

I think its under BCL

In the menu

Any ear protection that has a mic for a radio (BF-F8HP)

Cant get bcl to work :(