My Yaesu FT250 pulling in the signals trackside...

[karldotcom]

Decided to take a short video of my FT250 in action trackside.

I really do think it is the best railfan radio....well, pre-NXDN at least.


My radio picking up BNSF Detector MP 144.45 - YouTube

 

[rwier]

Pretty slick! Half of the conversation really did sound like someone in a train. Just curious, I looked up that model number and saw

xmits 144-148Mhz & receives 136-174 Mhz.

Q1) License to operate?
Q2) You can receive 136-144 and 148-174 without any chance of messing up and interfering?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[icom1020]

No license to turn it on, license is needed to transmit for the type approved 144-148mhz

Receiving shouldn't interfere...getting a license is easy for talking on the ham bands

They're good little radios, you may encounter a spur from a paging txmitter with a hot front end and decent antenna

 

[jaymatt1978]

What frequency???

 

[karldotcom]

It won't transmit on the RR bands if that is what you are asking.....

 

[jaymatt1978]

No read my post I asked what frequency!!!! I d-i't say anything about transmitting

 

[N8IAA]

What frequency???

What frequency for what
Larry

 

[jaymatt1978]

I would like to know what frequency he's listening to on the video

 

[karldotcom]

160.650 BNSF Dispatcher 15 San Bernardino Subdivision