cathmer
Member
Well I passed my Tech yesterday, and of course being brand new, never having been on air yet, I want to try it all. I'm going to be going for my general as well, but I really wanted to get on the air for a while before I do that.
I've already purchased a Baofeng UV-82HP with upgraded whip off of amazon, my intention was to monitor the local repeaters till my callsign get's assigned (at least that way I should have an idea of the local traffic). However, and nothing against them, but the radio arrived and the speaker doesn't work. If you plug in the head set the radio seems to work (I can hear), but I obviously cannot test TX right now (I don't have a dummy load, and without my callsign I can't xmit). So I have an RMA in to them, hopefully going to hear back soon (probably just got a bad one).
The local club has a big event coming up next month, and I really wanted to help out. The guys recommended that I look for a mobile unit with 50w xmit, and a 5/8's wave ant.
I've been on Powerwerx website after watching a lot of youtube, the "go box" style is very appealing to me, as I could use it as the base station in my house, and then pack it up and go to an event.
Features I'd like to have - I would like to have a mobile unit that would be capable of cross band repeat. If I go to help out at an event, it would probably come in handy to be able to setup my mobile unit to contact net control on 2m, and then be able to take the HT with me UHF, for example going inside a building. HT to Mobile to Net Control ? (I'm new, if this is a dumb idea please tell me).
I'd like to get something that's going to last me a while, I'd rather spend 600+ now, then spend 250 and then a year later spend 450.
One model I've found so far is the Kenwood TM-V71 . It would seem to have the features I'm looking for except for GPS (at least according to an amazon review). Powerwerx is selling what looks like a re-branded transceiver of their own, it does not look like it has repeater functionality, and reviews seem mixed on it.
I think that this feature set would give me great flexibility, and that's what I'm mainly looking for.
I've already purchased a Baofeng UV-82HP with upgraded whip off of amazon, my intention was to monitor the local repeaters till my callsign get's assigned (at least that way I should have an idea of the local traffic). However, and nothing against them, but the radio arrived and the speaker doesn't work. If you plug in the head set the radio seems to work (I can hear), but I obviously cannot test TX right now (I don't have a dummy load, and without my callsign I can't xmit). So I have an RMA in to them, hopefully going to hear back soon (probably just got a bad one).
The local club has a big event coming up next month, and I really wanted to help out. The guys recommended that I look for a mobile unit with 50w xmit, and a 5/8's wave ant.
I've been on Powerwerx website after watching a lot of youtube, the "go box" style is very appealing to me, as I could use it as the base station in my house, and then pack it up and go to an event.
Features I'd like to have - I would like to have a mobile unit that would be capable of cross band repeat. If I go to help out at an event, it would probably come in handy to be able to setup my mobile unit to contact net control on 2m, and then be able to take the HT with me UHF, for example going inside a building. HT to Mobile to Net Control ? (I'm new, if this is a dumb idea please tell me).
I'd like to get something that's going to last me a while, I'd rather spend 600+ now, then spend 250 and then a year later spend 450.
One model I've found so far is the Kenwood TM-V71 . It would seem to have the features I'm looking for except for GPS (at least according to an amazon review). Powerwerx is selling what looks like a re-branded transceiver of their own, it does not look like it has repeater functionality, and reviews seem mixed on it.
I think that this feature set would give me great flexibility, and that's what I'm mainly looking for.