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Howdy all, First time post, wanted to get you radio gurus opinion :) Looking to replace a old aviation yassu radio I had in my bag, I used it for soloing the occasional student, but mostly for picking up clearances without powering the plane up when the FBOs didn’t have a radio I could use...

First off, I'm completely new to radios. I have a Baofeng uv-9g GMRS radio. I have tested it via NOAA to confirm its work. I want to use it to monitor my local municipality radio frequencies near me. I'm trying to program my radio through CHIRP. the freq. in question uses DPL 026 for tone...

I'm brand new and just bought a budget radio to get my feet wet. I have the Baofeng BF-F8HP with the proper FTDI Programming Cable and the latest version of CHIRP on Windows 10 Pro. I setup all of my channels via CHIRP and I drove around a bit and in and out of the home I'm only picking up NOAA...

I am traveling across the country from CA to FL next week using the southern route. I am looking for a Chirp file for my BTECH UV-5XR that will have many of the proper emergency, local & repeater channels programmed already. I understand some will overlap from one state to the next, but I was...

So i want to get a new HT. my old Yeasu VX270 is so awesome and has the best receive ever, but the case is cracked and the battery is weak. I thought about fixing it but also want something new. I hadn't had a new HT since that one came out and i think that was 2005 or 2006. is the new low...

Shingletown residents create radio communication for a fire blackout When it comes to hot and dry days in the Northstate, Shingletown residents are particularly on edge. The town was classified as Cal Fire's top priority this fire season. The layout is similar to Paradise, where the Camp Fire...

Ok where do I start, as a starter of this dmr world, let me say it is a bit of a learning process, how to enter slots, uid, color codes, and tg aka and listening to a digital voice, and not analog, and the quality of this radio is a lot better then I expected. The look and feel: Well it is like...

I can only hear noaa broadcasts on my baofang handheld. I have attempted to enter in manually multiple frequencies that are local to my area. Is there something basic that I am missing? HotSavannahs in Texas