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.

Whats your opinion of BF-F8HP

But for a few hundred you can get some really good ones that are made in Japan instead and are waterproof and tough

What is something i wont destroy in "elk season"

@Yeetasaurus Rex do you get wet often?

always moist my dude

This is getting sexy

@[CA] SoyBoi I own a few BF8's honestly I love them because if they break it's no sweat

in colo, so mostly dry, but damn when it rains it rains

I've destroyed Motorola's

@Yeetasaurus Rex look into yeasu, find a waterproof one and call it a day

Mines drop dust and water resistant

@[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