Message from @[CA] SoyBoi
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Yeah, kinda...
Any and all resources would be much appreciated
Say you had your HAM license.... you could most likely find repeaters in your area that you can absolutely jump on and talk to people, if you're friends have the license you can talk pretty good distances.
Even with a baofeng
If you're all in the woods doing innawoods stuff, you can just use those FRS channels, as most likely there won't be others within the few miles range that they work anyway.
Privacy and civilian radios isn't really a thing
Best advice study for the license you’ll learn a lot of good shit along the way
Yeah
So is the signal grid based? Or for example in the middle of nowhere can the radios be used stand alone to communicate to one another?
And if you're already into electronics and electrical stuff it's a breeze
I'm into it, just have no idea about this area lol
Stand alone, or "simplex" is radio to radio
Repeaters are what you would call grid based.
You talk to a repeater in your range, and it rebroadcasts the signal much stronger out to others... but they still have to be in range of that repeater as well
Then there's DMR, but that uses the internet, so if that's down it's useless anyway
Okay, and in simplex, would you just match frequencies or is it a different functionality on the radio?
Yeah, just match frequencies
Theres MUCH more to all this
But I'm trying to keep it super simple, YouTube really is your friend here.
Yeah I'm gonna have to do some digging for sure
Look for “Ham Radio Crash Course” on YT lots of good advice
Basically it's like this.... if you want an expensive hobby, get into hams.
If you just want emergency comms if things break down, just learn the basic FRS/GMRS/weather band programming and keep your batteries charged.
Also our little radios can reach out a little farther with a bigger antenna he reviews a 42 1/2 inch and antenna on there that’s pretty cheap
Yeah, but a few miles over flat ground is it
And that's pushing it
In an emergency I’m sure you give your left nut for a little bit of extra distance if it’s what you need
With 10 watts and the best antennas money can buy and the most I've gotten out in the desert was 8 miles
Where I live in open farm land with houses you're lucky to get 3 miles
Now that's with hand helds... a 40 watt mobile or base will obviously get you a little more
But 10-15 miles is really it with simplex.
I eventually wanna get one in the car but idk how to wire it
Most plug into the lighter
In what respect? I deal with adaptive equipment in vehicles, may be able to help
so im seeing a ton of mixed answers here. Are UV-5R's trash or what?
They are cheap Chinese radios
let me rephrase that. Are they worth getting if you have nothing?
Yes
The answer is hardly no to that question lol
They can just break easily... in operating conditions they all work the same at the same power levels.
If you have nothing else, they work for emergency comms and talking on the fly. For single channel plain text.