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It's the first result I get when I search "BF888s". His post is like 2 years old.
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I did a search in the forum on this radio before making my post, and I saw a post of some guy's picture of the insides of an 888 all wired up to what looked like a raspberry Pi . It was his only post and nobody responded to it. Not sure if I can link it to this thread.
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My buddy had one of these. He found on-line a code plug hack to get the radio to run on VHF. That did work EXCEPT the harmonics was through the roof on VHF! I heard him fine at work here from our other building. Then for grins I tuned to the third harmonic on the 70cm band. He sounded even louder! Oops. Likely a result of the deviation being 3 times what it was on VHF. He quit using the radio, at least not with the code plug hack for VHF.
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While I don't have a Woxoun, the one Mildland I do have does kinda suck. I got it for free so not too big a deal. It just sits on a shelf with the rest of my collection. It could be that it's just old and has been abused. Not sure. Most of my radios are Motorola. But my Baofengs are my go to's. BF-888s for GMRS, and AR-5rm for everything. LOL
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HHD1 reacted to a post in a topic:
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If it had been about a midland or a woxoun things would be very different. Plus it was more neutral than nice.
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He actually left a nice comment this time.
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WRUE951 reacted to a post in a topic:
GMRS security risk.
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Radio and channel organization
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Never post those vacation details on FB until after the the fact!
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TrikeRadio reacted to a post in a topic:
Spotted on the 210 Fwy
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never say why you're selling and meet in a public place
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OffRoaderX reacted to a post in a topic:
Baofeng BF-888s for GMRS
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I am not aware of any freeways with sidewalks and traffic signals. But it has us all talking about it so mission accomplished!
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OffRoaderX reacted to a post in a topic:
Spotted on the 210 Fwy
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Somebody really missed the drop zone. Did they land on the freeway?
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TrikeRadio reacted to an answer to a question:
Squelch Won't Break Consistently Using DTCS Tone
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RIPPER238 reacted to a post in a topic:
GMRS security risk.
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Facebook Marketplace a danger zone.. A guy selling items from his home, giving one of his buyers his home address found out the hard way.. Apparently he friended a buyer one day, telling the friendly buyer all about him and his wife's upcoming two week cruise. The guy came home to a ransacked empty home. The buyers breadcrumbs on Facebook were fake.. Never caught
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Agreed. One of the ranch’s we work with run them. Super easy to use, super cheap. They have like 50of them. They do the job and work with the ranch repeater. The only issue is only one channel to monitor so I can’t use simplex and monitor the repeater. But I always bring my own dual watch radio anyway. .
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I know how to, most crooks will not worry about traveling too far and most done know what ham or gmrs is. let alone if they hear callsign very few know how to look up a call sign
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This is my opinion. The BF-888s by Baofeng makes for a handy GMRS HT. Paired with a Nagoya NA-701G antenna, I have found RX and TX to be quite clear. It's 16 channels can be programmed via CHIRP. It has 5 watts of power, so I set up 15 of its channels to GMRS 1-7 and 15-22. The 16th channel can be set up to whatever you like or left blank. When scanning is enabled through CHIRP, channel 16 becomes your scanner. The radio is super lightweight, which I find ideal for carrying on my belt. It's very inexpensive. The last 2 pack with charging docks that I purchased was $19.99. So, accidents are not very heartbreaking. In fact, the Nagoya 701g antenna is only a dollar cheaper than the 2 pack of these radios. Are there better radios out there? Absolutely. Is this radio part 95? Absolutely not. But with the proper programming, one can stay within all the other "rules". There are no fancy screens and buttons. Just a knob for volume, and a knob to select channel. The voice prompt lets you know what channel you're on. This is an ideal option for helping family members that are not tech savvy get into GMRS with very little to confuse them. I just wanted to give my personal review of what I think is a great little budget HT. It has become my everyday carry for home and work. May the haters now commence their hate speeches.
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I think you’re asking how to lookup a licensee’s address. Is that correct?
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Back in the 90s, and individual spent 3 years in a federal prision and had to pay a $10,000 fine and write an I'm sorry letter for transmitting obscenities on police freqs. The investigation to his dirty deeds started after a series of him transmitting with obscenities and when he was admonished on the air and he replied "Go "F" yourself. After he was identified as the possible suspect and while he was under surveillance, and he was caught in the act while on a transit bus. Subsequently, he was arrested and was prosecuted in a Federal Court with State charges also pending. Also, a search warrant was obtained to search his residence.
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Ok since I work in a prison, I'll ask the experts lol Most said what's ham, and gmrs how would I get there address from letters and numbers. One said if there over two hours away it's not worth the time to try it because what if someone is home or what if there poorer than me it would be a waste of time. No, I didn't ask them but after 18 years I've talked to a few about crime shows so serval ideas have come up.
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Talk about spoon feeding. Some one went to the trouble of posting the manual and you still couldn’t be bothered to read it? What is wrong with people.
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Ok but that’s not a picture of the 210freeway I know every single inch of the 210. So what is it and why is this a post?
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Well, according to the manual that @WRUE951 posted a couple comments above, it’s #28.
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I haven't heard of hacking a digital system but like anything else, it's possible. But i think much more difficult for the average person with Digital when you consider hacking ' eavesdropping
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