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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by nocturne@slrpnk.net to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio

I believe they are all BaoFeng UV-5R+/UV5R.

They were recommended for us when off roading to communicate between vehicles, but never seemed to work great at that.

Somewhere I think I still have the usb programming cable for them.

Edit: apparently the intent of my post was lost in my poor wording of the title. It has been updated to better reflect that I would like to use them, but for what? And how?

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[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago

They will work well for communication between vehicles, but you need to connect them to mag mount antennas. A car is basically a faraday cage. Radios don't work well inside unless you're running 900 MHz or higher.

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