I've got a cheap uv82 and a nagoya antenna. I'm not into radios, I just have it for emergencies and tactical larping

I’m definitely down to learn, but I feel like the intel server is gonna be more my speed. I can’t stand sitting around and I’m always out and about. Trying to give them all a decent run

> Thanks man we can talk on them without issue from the law?
@[TX]YimYam Keep you piwer low on MURS/FRS/GMRS and don't be a dick (no foul language, be respectful) and you'll you unnoticed.

Don't need to worry about power on the FRS/GMRS channels either... theres no "radio pokice" really... the FCC doesn't have time to mess with that shit, nor do they care.

You can also buy channels from the FCC for "itinerant" business use.. I own 25 of them myself.

That's doesn't mean nobody else will ever be on them, but they are in the UHF or VHF business bands and don't require a license

Really just stay off of the HAM channels and don't pisss off the boomer hams and you won't have issues.

I've read that the boomer hams are like fudds on steroids

@[TX]YimYam ordered. Hyped to learn comms not gonna lie

@Artemis they are turbo autists

The emilitia podcast had an episode about ham radio, and they talked a bit about the fudd hams

Reality is they are mostly pretty cool, just spurgy

It is pretty cool to be able to talk to people around the world depending on what frequencies you use

And the HF guys are nuts, some of those antennas take up a whole yard and signal depends on space weather and shit

It was pretty cool learning about the history of it though. Basically a bunch of nerds slapping shit together in their sheds and seeing what worked. Supposedly ham was a slur used by professional radio and telegraph operators

Yep, the original tech rebels

ironic considering they're all about rules now

Kinda....

It's really only more about keeping the idiots away

Honestly you could make up a callsign and nobody would really know if you pretended right

My friend told me a story about when his friend was piss drunk fucking with a ham radio getting on the police frequencies yelling whiskey jack!! Officer down!! And some volunteer firefighters beat his ass lmao

Yeah, that was a lie

Good story though you should have heard it

Ham frequencies and police frequencies aren't the same and especially these days the police don't use standard UHF

It’s fun being a volunteer firefighter til you gotta get up like 18 times cause some meth head wants to call and then refuse treatment when you get there

I mean he's old as dirt it could have been 30 years ago for all i know

Police started moving to trunked systems in the 90's, and by 2001 were mostly all moved over.

@TheClassyRandom oof, right

Our chief basically said fuck em no point in going if they’re gonna keep refusing treatment

We have mostly dope heads around here, give them narc an and they just wanna act like they are fine

So far we haven’t had to use narcan

I'm on the east coast in the hotbed of it

In rural America dopeheads everywhere.

Louisiana here

These commie idiots give them places to shoot up around here

Yeah I saw that. I was like the hell is going on over there.

They get to have fun. I'm jealous I respect myself too much to join in

Commiefornia is the first place we’re gonna have to take back honestly

Break legs and shit just to get morphine and oxys prescribed here

It’s ridiculous

Just load the fault lines with tactical nukes and send them on their way