My wife got the radio for me for my birthday. Both the radio and Nagoya na701 antenna came from amazon.
My radio is the uv5r plus.
Zach
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On Aug 5, 2013, at 12:24 AM, RJ Sandefur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Zach, Where did you get your baofeng? Where did you get your angana? RJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zach Shifflett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 12:10 AM
> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held , 2m
> and 440 MHz
>
>
>> Hi RJ.
>> I have a Baofeng and love it.
>> I know a lot of people who have them, both on this list and off, who
>> have it as well.
>> It's really a great little radio, and I think you'll like it a lot
>> once you get it.
>> I was talking to a guy on my local repeater the other day who works at
>> a Wall-Mart store near here.
>> He had gotten a baofeng for ham use, and loved it so much that he got
>> another one to take to work and replace his store walky talky.
>> He said it was more reliable than his company provided Motorola.
>> I know it seems like it's cheap at only 40 bucks, but really it is a
>> sweet little radio with all the capability you need for a starter ht.
>> With the Nagoya Antenna I bought for it, I can sit on my back porch
>> and make it into a repeater that's 16 miles away with full quiet, so
>> it's not just a peace of junk.
>> It's a really neat radio, and the best deal you can get for the price.
>> As for accessibility, I've not played with many other ht's, but
>> according to the active elements reviews, it seems like just about the
>> most accessible handheld radio out there.
>> You might get something moderately accessible if you spring for a
>> really expensive Kenwood, but the Baofeng will do just fine.
>> You'll have to remember a couple menu options if you wanna program
>> repeaters on the fly, but it's just a matter of getting to know the
>> radio.
>> If you can operate a microwave oven, alarm clock, car stereo, etc.,
>> you can operate this little rig.
>> I heard this old guy today on a 2 meter repeater who had just come
>> back from a hamfest say that the baofeng was the most incredible radio
>> he'd seen for it's price.
>> He said it outshined a bunch of ht's he himself had bought for 3 times
>> its price.
>> Anyway, I'm not trying to sell it to you or anything, but I really do
>> love the radio.
>> Just recently having gotten my own license, I was really skeptical at
>> first.
>> Check out Buddy's eyes free guide at active elements. There's a lot
>> of good stuff on the site about radios of all makes and models.
>> 73,
>> Zach, KK4RUZ
>>
>> On 8/4/13, RJ Sandefur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> So what the baofeng be my best bet? RJ
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 11:02 PM
>>> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held ,
>>> 2m
>>>
>>> and 440 MHz
>>>
>>>
>>>> If you want to program it with a computer and just tune up and down
>>>> memory
>>>> channels and not make any changes, it's accessible. If you want to do
>>>> more
>>>> than that, and actually make changes, it's not. personally I'd prefer
>>>> commercial equipment if I can just tune through memory channels but I
>>>> know
>>>> several people who have the ft-60R, all sighted and they say it's
>>>> nothing
>>>> special and a pain to program when you're sighted. I have played with
>>>> one
>>>> helping a new ham and I could tune through memory channels once PC
>>>> programmed, go to VFO and enter frequencies but that was it. No setting
>>>> PL
>>>> tones, no changing settings, no clue where in the world I was in memory
>>>> unless there was a national weather channel in a memory channel to use
>>>> as
>>>>
>>>> a
>>>> reference. That's nice until you go out of range of that service, then
>>>> you're lost again. As a blind ham, you can do a lot better in
>>>> accessibility.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Curtis Delzer" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 6:56 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: question concerning the Yaesu FT-60R , dual band hand held
>>>> ,
>>>>
>>>> 2m
>>>> and 440 MHz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I want to know about this also since our local club seems to just love
>>>>> thatHT.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the Yaesu FT-60R , dual ban
>>>>> d hand held , 2m and 440 MHz radio =
>>>>> accessible to a blind person? RJ
>>>>>
>>>>> Curtis Delzer.
>>>>> HS.
>>>>>
>>>>> K 6 V F O
>>>>> San Bernardino, CA.
>>>>>
>>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> skype: curtis1014
>>>
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