I was on them before

they're quite powerful little things

make sure you replace the antenna though, the one in the box is shit

https://www.gearbest.com/walkie-talkie/pp_194295.html kek could use this for your car

NICE

thanks @Deleted User

what about a differend handheld antenna? any recommendation for that?

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)