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4 minutes ago, back4more70 said:

It looks the same as every other UV-5G variant, I doubt you missed anything.  Baofengs are like cockroaches 🤣

it is the exact same case as the UV-5R, so if you like that size / form factor, your good to go.

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2 hours ago, back4more70 said:

It looks the same as every other UV-5G variant, I doubt you missed anything.  Baofengs are like cockroaches 🤣

And we've all owned a few 'coakroaches'...   Damn things are so tough, the're hard to get rid of

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On 6/15/2024 at 11:29 AM, WRQC527 said:

Apparently "pros" need to receive air band, 1.25 Mhz and 1 Mhz to be considered pros.

Yeah, the 5G Pro supposedly does Air Band, but is it useful?  the 5Gs are all FM, while Air Band is all AM (or am I wrong about that?)

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4 minutes ago, WSDN891 said:

Yeah, the 5G Pro supposedly does Air Band, but is it useful?  the 5Gs are all FM, while Air Band is all AM (or am I wrong about that?)

FM for TX/RX, but depending on the way the SOC and other components are set up, no reason it cant receive AM.

My AR-5RM does Airband RX.

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1 hour ago, WSDN891 said:

Yeah, the 5G Pro supposedly does Air Band, but is it useful?  the 5Gs are all FM, while Air Band is all AM (or am I wrong about that?)

*Disclaimer: My view of air band is strictly my own and does not reflect the opinions of other contributors. 

I think air band receive on a GMRS or amateur radio is a gimmick with little or no real-world use. I'd be telling tall tales if I said air band is exclusively AM, because I don't know. I do use it occasionally to listen to air traffic, but only because the radios receive it. Air band would not influence my buying decision one way or another in the least.

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Air band is AM because the FM capture effect will prevent a weaker signal from being heard, when using AM two signals can be heard at the same time with

one causing a hetrodyne (remember all the noise on AM CB?) ATC can hear them

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