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Jun 8, 2020 • 31 tweets • 10 min read
Let's talk about the Baofeng UV-5R which is a popular and cheap two way radio.
If the city/town/county you live in uses conventional (ie non digital) radios (UHF or VHF) then it can also be used as a scanner.
So you can be mobile and know what's going on. Say, at a protest.
Before I get into how to use it a couple of caveats.
1) Unless you are on the FRS band (ie commercial walkie talkies) never hit the PTT/transmit button. It is illegal to transmit on any frequency other than the FRS frequencies