Well you can’t conformal coat any of the button pads or inside the volume pot and that stuff WILL corrode

‘Most people’ will say that then spend 2k on an AR

So they just have a poor idea of what radio is and how much proper radio comms cost and act accordingly because of everyone acting like a buttfang is the holy grail

Really the o ly reason I run the baofeng iver any of my cp200 or the kenwood I have is they are front panel programmable and literally everyone uses them so I never know what channel I need to be on.

True FPP is a nice asset but when you put it in the hands of the unwashed you end up with paint ballers all talking shit unknowing on the local sheriff frequency

Lmfao... except VERY few government agencies aren't on P25 at this point... they usually just end up pissing off the local HAM club

That’s a wide brush you’re painting with. My locals here are all vhf and uhf analog except for the state police

It’s different everywhere

I guess... I'm on the east coast, so everything is not only P25, but encrypted out here.

But from what I hear in my scanner groups, theres not much left on UHF/VHF

Case in point, i found some local band crew members using shitfangs and they were on the local vhf Sheriff’s freq since they have no idea what freq is what.

Lol

Luckily the sheriff just switched to 800 p25 and they weren’t running any PL tone so if there was any backup radios on they wouldn’t have heard them.

NYPD is all analog and non-encrypted fyi...

Yeah, I find people on my itinerant channels all the time

That’s just the nature of itinerants

But they give you a legal place to run encryption

Kinda, but it's always idiots with chinafangs

I thought you still couldn't run encryption on business band?

You can run encryption anywhere it’s not specifically excluded

Like ham, MURS, FRS all exclude it

Right

Like i mentioned, we licensed a bunch of itinerants across low band, vhf, and uhf. We specified analog narrowband emissions, p25 emissions, trbo, and NXDN. Once you go to digital modulation adding encryption is easy.

I wonder if I can change any of that, it'll be time to renew in the next 2 years

Encryption on analog used to be hard and sounded like dogshit so not many places used it, and only for special situations. Now with digital it’s all bits anyway so re-ordering them per an algorithm is peanuts

That’s why so much public safety is going enc, because nobody wants to be heard and it’s easy of not free these days with new gear.

Yeah, I don't really know shit about encryption, I always thought you had to be on the 700-900 bands etc.

Yeah you can do it now, file an amendment to the license to add the right designators

Sounds like I need to dig up all my paperwork

Just like with phones and apps, you never want to say something without using encryption. And that’s why the boojfengs aren’t going to cut it.

The business doesn't exist anymore, so hopefully that won't be an issue

Nah fcc don’t ask for business license or nothing

I could've swore I had to provide that, but it's been almost 10 years

Also, all this talk about what freqs to use, ham or FRS/MURS etc...that’s the last place you’d find me. When the shtf those will all be full of dipshits with walmart radios and hams trying to hold nets and dumb shit. For real ops, you need to get away from the public areas that can be easily jammed. Those are good places to practice and learn radio, but are the first place I’d look for fuckers if i was a fed.

Anyone here have a CB?

We need you for a minute.

I prefer to hide in plain sight. Slip between a couple of normal police channels, or modify the radio for out of band and slip just outside the accepted band limits.

I am a long time cb’er

Alright so: we’re looking for connections with truckers.

Channel 19

Channel 19 on CB?