Help Choosing a HAM Radio

Many of the Chinese radios don't need a "mod" at all, they'll do GMRS frequencies right out of the box - or right out of the box after a magic key press. Technically illegal, but there ya go!
 
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Zorba said:
Many of the Chinese radios don't need a "mod" at all, they'll do GMRS frequencies right out of the box - or right out of the box after a magic key press. Technically illegal, but there ya go!
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SWIM thinks this is a risk worth taking. (The legal part not the crapy radios)
 
Midnight LJR said:
I got the TM-D710GA, Alex helped me get it setup for GMRS channels since I am slacker and didn’t finish my ham license yet. I really need to get that done….
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I was able to take it at a local Red Cross for $5. A ham club gave the test once a month.
 
Midnight LJR said:
I got the TM-D710GA, Alex helped me get it setup for GMRS channels since I am slacker and didn’t finish my ham license yet. I really need to get that done….
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Come on slacker! Get that ticket! That's the Kenwood unit? That is a nice radio.
 
Midnight LJR said:
I got the TM-D710GA, Alex helped me get it setup for GMRS channels since I am slacker and didn’t finish my ham license yet. I really need to get that done….
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Excellent radio, hard to get your hands on but highly sought after, this is currently my VHF/UHF shack rig. use it for AX.25 Packet radio (win-link and APRS) and it sounds absolutely excellent on FM. its signal rejection is superb and it seems to reach just a little bit further on transmit and it hands down pulls in more distant stations on receive.

you can do a mod for a bluetoth TNC connection and a couple of other neat things. You can probably pick up a DTMF decoder board to splice in for cross-band repeater duty (once you are licensed) as they stopped equiping them somewhere into the "G" sub-model. That radio is waaaaaaay overkill for GMRS (and not technically legal), but it will serve you well and has plenty of overhead to grow into.
 
KingCarGuyZ said:
Excellent radio, hard to get your hands on but highly sought after, this is currently my VHF/UHF shack rig. use it for AX.25 Packet radio (win-link and APRS) and it sounds absolutely excellent on FM. its signal rejection is superb and it seems to reach just a little bit further on transmit and it hands down pulls in more distant stations on receive.

you can do a mod for a bluetoth TNC connection and a couple of other neat things. You can probably pick up a DTMF decoder board to splice in for cross-band repeater duty (once you are licensed) as they stopped equiping them somewhere into the "G" sub-model. That radio is waaaaaaay overkill for GMRS (and not technically legal), but it will serve you well and has plenty of overhead to grow into.
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That’s ok, pretty sure everything is illegal these days. I will be getting my license though in the near future now that we are all settled in at the new house.
 
Midnight LJR said:
That’s ok, pretty sure everything is illegal these days. I will be getting my license though in the near future now that we are all settled in at the new house.
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I'm going to tell you honestly... I definitely don't ever run my 5100 on GMRS when we do trail rides, and the enforcement on that rule is defiantly stringent ;)

Edit: I was going to fix the Typo.... and then it was just too funny.
 
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