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How to best use a box of Baofengs? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio
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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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[–] [S] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Well yes, but can they be used as police scanners? Weather update radios? Or are they strictly to communicate with another hand held?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    They have a recieve range of 134-176 I think and 420-480, as long as it's standard analog you should be able program in some fun things to listen to.

    I have one setup for railroad frequencies and I hear some unique conversations.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    My radio dummy tip (I’d definitely not an expert) is definitely go outside when scanning for interesting stuff to listen to. It took me a few afternoons of scanning to find anything, let alone anything interesting. Hopefully you’ll have better luck :-)

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