I can smell it

ofc youd be most likely using repeaters. soo if you happen to have smartly place repeaters then sure 8w could come in use

luckily I have good line of sight from where I'd be using the radio

@Semi Truck mc Clusterfuck don't most Emergency services encrypt their traffic these days?

@Matthew who knows? I hope not, I live in a drug infested city, so all the arrests tend to be crackheads running around naked and shit like that, so I want to listen in on that

Literally just install an app on your phone

that's no fun

I like the autism shopping

kinda like tim, just less extreme

for now

most police comms are encrypted

at least the dispatch part

the normal chatter can be still over plain waves/car to car radio

so the extra 3 watts aren't really worth cancelling and reordering for would you say?

@onoderaSecurity depends 100% of your usage

i live in a somewhat urban area, i've been just thinking about it
europe doesn't use 220 like america does im pretty sure

https://alt.radio.scanner.uk.narkive.com/dSQxS0Bg/freqs-in-west-yorkshire

Just booted up mine, apparently there's a shooting in Texas right now. 10k people listening.

i mean 8W up does jack shit if you are only gonna listen in

I can still smell the weed outside

these kids are worse than the ones who go past my house on skateboards every day

@onoderaSecurity so yes unless you plan on broadcasting your heavy breathing experiences far and wide the 8w vs 4w is irrelevant

but if you plan broadcasting it out youd get that extra 4ish miles maybe

but for listening you need to start looking into the hell what is radio antennas ...

Please don't clog up the airwaves, btw. People treating ham radio like a chatroom is pretty cancerous.

ham radio is chatroom tho emerency waves are for different thing

"Duhhh....how's Every one doing??" Is sure to elicit a bunch of "shut up, faggot"

I plan on only listening for the main frequencies, and the unused ones are for airsoft comms with my team

<:rolf:589102490696548371>

ham radio seems like a chatroom for 50 something year old white men

what's your ham radio callsign though

no personal details nerds

H4NDL3T

Shut up, gay ex mod.

>ham radio callsign
>personal details
<:rolf:589102490696548371>

registered callsigns can easily be searched back to real name

Tervy types long diatribes, That's the same thing as knowing what you're talking about, right?

Tervy, more like Unnervy <:wholesomethonk:373550351082848267>

that's because all the people with callsigns are boomers who know nothing about privacy

Name: Mike Jones
Callsign: Big Mike

Nothing revealing here