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Baofeng BaoFeng BF-F8HP: enter frequency below 100

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L0NGMAN said:
Okay, got it.
Then suggest me please best transceiver what I can purchase on the market without problems.
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If you are looking for wideband receive only, a fair number of ham radios support that. If you’re looking to transmit throughout that entire range, there are basically no options in a single platform except for the Harris listed above. The problem is that these radios are over $50K and you will have problems exporting one from the USA. I believe the model linked in the above post isn’t even able to be owned by civilians in the USA, let alone worldwide… amazing tech though!

You are gonna need a handful of radios working together to get the kind of TX bandwidth you are talking about, and likely a multitude of licenses go with them…

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Yes, got it. Now please forget about frequencies I've mentioned and just suggest good transceiver for talking with other radio enthusiasts
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We understand you are new here, and people will be happy to help you out. Your previous expectation suggests a lack of understanding. Nothing wrong with that, but it leads us to ask questions to help make suggestions that are correct for your needs….

You need to tell us what YOUR definition of "radio enthusiasts" is.
To us, that means a hundred different things, and most of them require licenses. Without knowing what you are licensed for, or what you can legally use in your country, it would be very hard for us to make a good suggestion.

Each country has different rules, and since most of us don't live in your country, it's difficult to know what would be legal/acceptable in your area.

Usually the best option is to get your amateur radio license. That opens up a number of pieces of radio spectrum for you to use to talk to other amateur radio operators. Amateur radio operators are restricted to using small slices of spectrum, and do not have access to the full "30MHz to 1000MHz" range for transmitting.


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and listen popular channels.
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Best option to listen is a scanner and/or a shortwave radio, depending on what part of the radio spectrum you are interested in. While some amateur radios may receive a lot of spectrum, they usually do not have the capabilities of a true monitoring receiver, scanner or good shortwave radio.


So, let us know what you are looking for with a bit more background and we'll be happy to assist.
 
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Okay, please suggest a good transceiver for under 1500$
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Ok. Disregarding your original requirements, if I had to recommend a single radio in your price range that will let you TX on as many bands as possible and give you enough RX bandwidth to listen in on lots more, I guess I’d have to go with an iCom IC-705… this is assuming you have the license to use such a radio in your country. You’ll need one or more antennas.

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