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Is my channel setup missing anything important?


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Brand new to radios of any kind except cheap blister pack radios for the kids. I got a cheapo baofeng to mainly use to listen too in emergencies, or God forbid maybe call for help one day. But it's basically just for the hurricane kit. I won't bore you with a whole program file but what I did was make one side of the channels 1-50 national "universal" frequencies. I have all 22 GMRS/FRS channels, I have the important civilian marine VHF channels since I live on the river (9,13,16,22,68,68,71,72), I have the 5 M.U.R.S channels even though I really dunno what those are, I have the national simplex calling frequencies for 146, 446, and 223, the international space station because why not, the airband emergency channels such as vhf guard, the 2 air to air ones, the helicopter to helicopter one, the air search and rescue one, the military uhf gaurd, and finally something called VSAR16 which I believe was ground search and rescue.....

Does this sound like a good comprehensive list? Anything I'm missing as far as universal nationwide frequencies? I have the local stuff on the other side of the channels (999 and down) to make them more organized. I won't go into that list, I'm just focused on the national stuff first. 

 

Thanks in advance!

Bill - WSJQ725

 

 

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5 minutes ago, HamsterDancer said:

a cheapo baofeng ............ the airband .........

Those are generally mutually exclusive. It can listen on those frequencies, but depending on model, can't receive AM transmissions. And the cheapo ones generally can't.

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It's an AR-5RM, it has the airband. 🤷 I've been listening to the local airport chatter... And it was only $35 so I still consider that cheapo. It won't transmit on those channels but I don't have any need to transmit on those channels anyway as gravity, biology and poverty have rendered me flightless. 

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