GMRSJohn

I really appreciate the Wouxun recommendation. I feel drawn to the uv-5 plus. Seems a fair radio. Beofeng kind of gets the win unless I see something else.

Amen

I’m studying for the ham test right now. I wouldn’t try anything to get in trouble. They probably wouldn’t let me be on the team until they knew I was proficient and licensed.

I’m coming to understand that pretty well! In my infancy of radio, I’m just looking for something stable to cut my teeth on. The beofeng uv-5 plus seems to be the way for me to go. Though I have looked at that Wouxun! Which piques my interest as well. I don’t know how far I’ll delve into this. A ham club in my area has a disaster emergency response team that seems great. It’d be awesome to help people and I feel like I’d have to up my game and be proficient rather than feel like it’s a hobby.

Strats are nice, don’t get me wrong. I’m a LP guy myself.

Opinions are many for sure. But it’s interesting to hear them. I think Baofeng is the “Fender Stratocaster” of radios.. seems everyone has one and they’re neither good nor bad. And I find their prices vs performance acceptable for the most part. I’m thinking the uv-5 plus is going to be my radio of choice. Compact enough for carry and seems like the durability and wow factor that keeps me coming back. Slightly more advanced than my novice knowledge is right now but not so much that I can’t figure it out and be proficient with.

I’m just listening for suggestions and why people like certain radios. It’s funny how certain radios get rave reviews on Amazon and when I research them other places they are spoken of like garbage. But that’s kind of how I learn things by listening to every aspect of the item. Thanks for sharing your input!

Yeah.. “good” is a broad term. I need something that’s entry level but will grow with me. Has acceptable range and is easily programmable. I think chirp support would be helpful. and basically a radio that isn’t a piece of junk. Durable and reliable.

Hello y’all. I’m John. An absolute and utter new guy to the radio world. Having recently received my GMRS license, (because it’s the easiest to obtain and I’m studying for the technician ham license) I’m in the search for a good radio for each. Now for GMRS, because I’m legal to use them now, I was looking at the Tidradios, which seem mostly ok and yet, just didn’t have the factors to pull me into buying. I’ve kind of ruled them out. But not totally.. depending on what other radios I find. So, I’m looking at the Baofeng uv-5 plus and the Talkpod A36Plus GMRS Handheld Radio. I’m kind of curious what y’all’s thoughts are? monitoring…

I’ve looked at the H3’s too. I find myself bouncing between the H3’s, H8’s or the Beofeng uv-5 plus. what worries me about the H8 is the reports of sticky PTT and they’re not as easy to program as they claim.

I was thinking about buying these radios but I feel kind of discouraged after reading this. I know that there’s no perfect radio but I don’t want to get something and turn around and return them..