Message from @redbeard
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@[CA] SoyBoi you are configuring what frequency your channels are on and other settings like power output and channel names.
Ohhh, okay, how do you decide how to program it? Is there a guideline or something to go off of?
You just have to research and figure out what frequencies you can or want to operate on.
For instance the most used is those FRS and GMRS frequencies, there are lists online for them, and you just plug in the numbers
CHIRP is the software to use for the baofeng radios
Yeah knowledge and experience. It’s not a beginners task, and why a lot of people start with ham radio to learn how things work.
That guys channel is a good source of info across the board
For sure thanks guys! Need to start digging
Yeah, it's a pretty in depth hobby
IMO it's worth having the basic knowledge even if you only want them for emergencies
I need a couple of those Harris xl200 to fall off a truck near me lol
Lmfao... right
But the software isn’t as cooperative as the Motorolas I guess
I looked them up after he posted earlier.... made me feel poor
On the fcc stuff, I don’t have a step by step but I can tell you what you are doing is filing an update to the license. Just like would have happened for everyone in 2012 for narrowbanding. You want to add p25 emissions so you need to add 8K10F1E.
Okay... yeah, we got our allocation right after the narrowbanding happened
Yeah so you probably only have 11k2F1E emissions on each frequency right now.
So I would have to add emissions to every channel I wanna use it looks like
Yes. Now if these are true itinerant use channels and not exclusively licensed only to you in that area, you can pretty much just do what you want and not bother to update the license.
Business radio users never ID by callsign
Itinerant is one step above MURS and FRS and is similarly ignored it seems
Yeah, definitely itinerant, they were setup for a radio rental business based out of Philadelphia, but meant to be rented to production companies up and down the east coast.
Hardly ever used actually in Philadelphia... that's why we had a company do all the paperwork for us so we didn't fuck it up.
Yeah for legit use it’s best to have all the details in order
I figure at this point for what we're doing we dont need to update anything because we will only ever have a few units at this point. In 2014 we had over 200 CP200's being used at many festivals, some at the same time between Florida and Vermont
But if it's easy enough, or doesn't cost a ton, why not. Probably dont need to do it to all 25 channels either
If you go through the effort to do it at all, just do them all so you aren’t limited later. That’s why I mention adding Trbo as well.
A local radio shop went around doing updates for narrowbanding and they added narrow, trbo, NXDN, and maybe one other to everyone’s license so they had the option to upsell them on whatever they could.
That same shop had a sales cunt there that tried to give me a hard time because I set up our dept radios and they didn’t make a penny off us. So after I left they took some radios to them and she tried to say I was illegally using a freq so they could charge them to remove it. I pulled up the license and showed them it was legit and pointed out it was them who did the license updates to allow it. Fucking sales people...
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I know what NXDN is... I'm not familiar with trbo, gotta look that up
Are Baofengs still legal to buy?
Without a license that is
I don't want a dead pup
Yes
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