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Most amateur radio clubs can steer you to classes and testing. Many offer either or both as part of their club programs. My club up here in Fulton County has a testing session every month prior to our regular meeting.
Most clubs have a web presence so you should be able to easily find one or more near you with a simple google or yahoo search.
Anyone know of any ham clubs in alaska or where to get tech License
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today ordered baofeng uv-82hp camo color cannot wait to get this radio anyone else have this uv82hp ?
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Today just ordered nagoya na-771 antenna , programing cable for my baofeng uv-5r+ be glad when I get it, radio on its way from china I purchased from amazon and the other stuff from eBay I hoping all the stuff I ordered shows up around the same time , been looking at all youtube videos about programing the radio
Canceled order for baofeng uv-5r plus ,ordered baofeng uv82hp from baofengtech here in united states already have a nagoya na 771 antenna had to order FTDI Programming Cable PC03 USB Cable , radio
and cable shipped today
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Yes, but quite honestly CHIRP is better suited for programming.
Thank you
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Software question will baofeng uv5r programing software work with baofeng uv-5r plus
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I liked the first one well enough to order a second one. That should say it all.
I use them mostly to monitor four specific frequencies of interest that I might otherwise miss when my scanners are scanning.Today just ordered nagoya na-771 antenna , programing cable for my baofeng uv-5r+ be glad when I get it, radio on its way from china I purchased from amazon and the other stuff from eBay I hoping all the stuff I ordered shows up around the same time , been looking at all youtube videos about programing the radio
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Corey, I have two of the UV-5RV2+ radios with Nagoya 771 antennas. They seem to be working fine for the few GMRS repeaters in my area. Oddly enough, even my MD-380 works quite well in analog mode.
how do you like the baofeng radio i just ordered the beofeng uv-5r+ from amazon
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was looking at the nagoya na-771 antenna for the baofeng uv-5r+ but the sad part is half the places will not ship to alaska
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The only thing i would recommend on that setup is to get an antenna that covers the GMRS band, the Nagoya you listed above is a HAM band antenna.
What antenna would you recommend
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I would guess most of the users here are using more advanced equipment that offers repeater operation. I am not sure if the Midland GXT5000 Radio is repeater capable or not. I noticed the Midland GXT5000 radio was marketed as a 36 mile 22 channel radio. The 36 miles is not practical in the real world unless you had 2 people in direct line of sight, some smaller repeaters running 40 watts dont offer 36 miles of coverage. From experience you will only see 1 maybe 2 miles and your contacts may be limited as you can not talk to anybody using a repeater and any simplex contacts would need to be on the same PL or DPL privacy tones. Unless you have a lot of simplex users in your community you may not hear anything other then kids playing hide and go seek. If this is a service you are interested in for hobby and daily use I would recommend getting a portable that can do repeaters or set up a small base station. Equipment can be found used on ebay rather cheep, whatever you purchase be sure you can program it. I know a lot of people new to the hobby start with the baofang UHF or DUAL band radios. You can purchase a simple handheld on Amazon with a better antenna and programming cable for under 50 bucks. Theses radios can be programmed with a free software package called CHIRP that can be googled and downloaded for free. Understand theses radios are more of a HAM radio and are not certified for use on GMRS but nobody has ever been cited for it as long as you abide by the rules. This type of radio is how i learned to program and the reason i decided to expand on the hobby, like i said not part 95 c-Fertified but none the less good learning equipment, easy to program and easy on the wallet.
Hello just purchased a Baofeng UV-5R+ with extra battery and Nagoya NA-701 SMA-F144/430Mhhz dual band antenna
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I just got my gmrs license the only repeater that I know of is in deltal jct alaska which is south of fairbanks I have four radios two midland gxt1000 and two midland gxt5000 they are quiet , I live in wasilla alaska which
is 47 miles north of anchorage
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Anyone in Alaska use gmrs radios any clubs or websites
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Anyone have Midland GXT5000 Radios ?
Baofeng UV-82HP
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I just received my Baofeng UV-82HP from baofengtech here in the usa love the radio was fairly easy to program with the purchase of FTDI Programing Cable , had no issues programing was straight forward , however had to do RMA on the battery that came with radio, was bad from factory , baofeng tech is replacing battery hopefully I'll get it back next week. radio sounds great I also have the nagoya N771A Antenna works great , fm radio works great and sounds good from little speaker on the radio ,over all I like the uv-82hp was supprised how small the radio was, looks bigger online than it actually is.
Eugene