@[TX]YimYam what rsdio

i used to use xts5000's back in the uniformed days, but as you said, that shits impossible to get setup as a civ

@Yeetasaurus Rex getting them is easy, not cheap, but easy

@[TX]YimYam I've heard good things about those

Only $52 comes with 3800mah battery 2x chargers head set clip and retention strap

Oh and a really antenna out the box

Is there any common channels if SHTF to look out for to see if anyone's out there 🤔 let's say you need help or some shit

Not really

Kinda, but not really

Depends on the area and no guarantee someone is listening

https://www.radioddity.com/products/baofeng-gt-3tp-mark-iii-two-way-radio-3800mah-battery

> @redbeard I've been looking at the APX series, but I've always held off because I have 25 licensed UHF channels from the FCC and most of the people I work with use standard UHF channels.
@EDDSkitz nothing about an APX limits you from operating on an analog uhf channel if the radio is a uhf model or multiband model.

@redbeard really? I thought they were only 700/800/900

My channels are in the 500 business band

> Getting even business band channels licensed is expensive, and P25 digital even more so. If you're just talking with your crew, the FRS bands tend to be fine for most.
@EDDSkitz itinerant channel licensing is cheap and easy, and you can specify what emissions mode you want for no extra charge at all. We have all of our set up for all emissions modes just because.

@redbeard yeah, that's what I have

Cheap if you don't yourself, but I paid a company to do it so nothing got messed up... the government sucks

*do it yourself

Yeah the APX is available in vhf, uhf in two ranges, 700/800 in one radio, and 900. Then there are dual band models, and multi band models. Mine is an APX 4000 in vhf

Oh, okay... I'll have to look into that again...

What did the 4k run you?

APX 7000 with vhf and uhf range 1 and the FPP option is ideal. Or an APX 8000 with vhf/uhf full/and 7/800.

I traded an XPR 5550 vhf mobile for it, so I’d say about $500ish

I priced out a 6k a while back just for shits and it was like 2500 or something

Was just wondering if the uhf only stuff is cheaper

But that also was with the software

Our software for the CP200's was like 800 bucks 8 years ago

My 7000 xe was $2400, brand new sold out the back door of the federal depot haha

Lmfao

Software is all online so pirate copies are easily obtained

And I have depot level software so I can activate all required features without paying for them

Do you know if the encryption is on the non 700/800 models? I know you're not supposed to use it on 500, but ya know....🤷‍♂️

Oh, I guess that would be software locked huh?

You can use it on any freq the radio is capable of. We run aes 256 on FRS all the time lol

😂

Okay, maybe I'll have to look into a few of the lower end models again

There’s a lot of surplus XTS 5000 out there worth grabbing

Was just on ebay... lots of 4k 400-512's out there for 500-600

Would just need a programming cable and NATO wired PTT for my peltors