I use a Nagoya NA-771 antenna on mine, whip antenna

nagoya

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/NAGOYA-NA-771-Dual-Band-Antenna-SMA-Female144-430MHZ-for-Handheld-Radio-Baofeng-UV-5R-UV/32656435903.html

"womans antenna"

fucking kek

nagasaki

yeah the connection is sma-f I think

on the UV-5Rs

some use a different connection

but it's easy to adapt to anything

whys the stock antenna bad though? bad signal?

it's nicknamed the rubber ducky in autist communities because it's useless

kek

definitely sounds better with an upgraded antenna

any sma-f gear on gearbest or ali will work

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/New-Retevis-RHD-771-SMA-F-Antenna-15-4-Dual-Band-144-430-MHz-U-V/32436830284.html

this is the exact one I have

retevis, it's just a rebrand

but I like it

I also have one of those radio dongles, the SDR-RTL things

really autistic though, only Tervy could understand it

I fucking love this community

yeah if you go on /k/ there's a /k/ommunications thread occasionally

they have good infographics and such

SDR-RTL <3

shit is nice specialy if half of the town uses shitty old zigbee and such communications on their "home automation"

:D

yeah the amount of plug ins and things you can do is pretty insane

>ability to control schools internal coms and lights and heating via laptop

yes please

noticed that once when i was sitting on some newer classrooms

and they had all kinds of stuff

control school comms

lmao this is what I should've known when I was in school, the pranks would be insne

its only the per-room audio as far as i know (Also the LAB phones to control room)

i bet there is hole for me to tunnel tru for schoolwide messaging system too

but thats something i dont dare to do

well dare* but wont do if its not important (lets say someone starts shooting up at school)

first thing i was teached about breaking into stuff is that only use it when its needed (or really damn fun)

fun is always needed

really damn fun = settings 200 person lecture hall to 15*C

and after that switching it to +28