Davichko5650

I think the difference here is you have a friend, if not more than one, using the Mesh that you need to check up on. (loved that "I'm calling the Cops" on the video) I can't think of anyone I know using it that I'd care to send or receive text messages from, even in a truly SHTF kind of event.

Perhaps, perhaps not, but definitley a couple step above it in cost.

"Moose, Rocco, help the Judge find his checkbook."

a small slice of 80 meters as well.

Excellent, congratulations! In your pursuit of a good rig, you may want to look around the used market for a decent priced Yaesu FT-991 or similar "shack in a box" type rig. Gives you the 10m and 6m bands you're licensed to operate on as well as 2m and 70cm all mode. As a Technician, you are licensed to operate digital modes on 10m as well, and there is activity, especially on FT8 mode quite often when the band is open. And it may, or may not, whet your appetite to upgrading to General and/or Extra if you find HF operating to be a thing you want to pursue down that rabbit hole. AS to where to look, if you're in the market, I would avoid FaceBook Marketplace, too much scamming there. Local buy/sell/trade nets on 2m usually have something to offer as well as local HamFests. Local Clubs are also a good source if you can find a good one. Enjoy your trip down the RF Rabbit Hole that is two-way radio!

But it is vitally important, if not imperative that they first discuss their recent Bunionectomy and the status of Myrna Mae's Hernia prior to getting into the nuts an bolts of antennae...

MURS Multi User Radio Surfer

https://midwestgmrs.org/ I would look there for info.

Most of my work in HF/VHF in the ASA was making sure no one could hear your radio or you couldn't hear anyone else's. That and DF'ing you to call in that airstrike or listening to find out what you were up to and countering it with force. Swearing at Bird Colonels in Russian to get them to blow up on the radio is just a fun way to spend a few minutes!

A guy on one of the FB Groups for GMRS/FRS/MURS/CB posted: "I'm thinking off throwing out a call on my MURS Radio to see if anyone is around to talk, what do y'all think?" Besides the obvious reply about it being pretty much used for businesses for short distance comms. etc., my question back was, "what will you do for a callsign, given there are none for MURS; 'This is Cleanup on Aisle 9 monitoring, anyone around?' "

Streaming the YooToob on it. I can thumbs up/down things subscribe or save for later. All these things except comment. I'd have to add a keyboard but I use one at work most days so that's a non-starter. I rarely watch YT on either my phone (smarter than the TV) or on my home Laptop (it's normally trying to contact those random men out there)

I noted that on your last video on a Wouxun HT! I was on my smart TV and couldn't comment on the precise nature of your verbiage! Although, I'm betting that "Certain Individuals" did leave some good ones worth reading?

Nothing brings out a pile up on the amateur bands like a YL calling CQ. At a local meet up last Saturday, of of the guys was bitching about Contesters using a YL to call the CQ Contest, and when he answered, "some dude replied, I wanted to talk to the girl!!!" Like it was false adverstising or sumtin... But back to the topic. I only need to know one callsign, mine. I can't think of the callsigns any of the friends I talk to on Simplex; I know a couple of their numbers, but it's so we can tell the 3 Joes apart. We ID on time and and when we complete a conversation, and that's it. And no phonetics. A couple of the guys, we still use their CB "handles" when calling them! I don't ever recall anyone on GMRS asking me my callsign.

Used these at my previous employer with our Kenwood Nexedge radios. Rock solid, as you'd expect from both brands!

Could be, cw, the original digital mode, can have a certain rhythmic cadence to it, as do many of the digital modes. The other thing I find interesting is the number of amateur operators I run into with a SIGINT background similar to mine.

The Queen is never wrong. Once we thought (s)he was, but she was mistaken!

I'm really that way also, just threw LZ out there as a joke. I can't think of a genre of music that doesn't have something I don't like in it. Mine is the a/c in the shack, seems to warble a nice mark/space after those RTTY Contests go silent.

Personally, I've always liked Led Zeppelin as my favorite band. 20 m CW and Phone were my go to's for FD this year. Very limited Op time as usual due to annual Family do's that weekend. But managed contacts on the bands from 40-6m working a 1E station

When the first brick sized Cellphones came out, a buddy got one for work. He'd call us when he was down at the lake and ask us to call back in 5 minutes. He would walk by the sunbathing girls on the beach and take that call trying to impress them. Didn't really work...

Absolutely - Here in St Paul, we hear sirens, we rush outside to look for them!. But the guys I know are researchers not tour guides, so they like to keep other ears from getting their info and clogging up their spots!

Others have posted VG info already, won't add to that. I do know a couple "professional" storm chasers, they both have LMR licenses for their pursuits. Mostly so they can encrypt their radio traffic, so as to not have other chasers, especially those who take groups out to show off storms, their info.

Just the gift of Time to work 6 meters for the VHF Contest.

Wanna see Randolpho do that ala Molly Shannon!

Well, CANG and USMC do have CEWI BN's, right??? (although the nomenclature may differ)

Cue the "that's not real radio" SadHam comments!