I love how people who can't pass a basic license exam are telling on themselves in the comments LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 Watch out everyone... The fans of the William shatner GayMRS channel are here calling us "sad hams" LMAO
@@Dread_Pirate_Homesteader cool cool. So you admittedly don't have an operational knowledge of HF, any digital modes, or just about anything outside the realm of local uhf/vhf. You're totally prepared for... Not much. Congrats Mr pirate. You're the exact person I'm making fun of here.
People have a tendency to gather the stuff they think will help them, but not know how to use the stuff they're collecting. It's the same way with guns, medical gear, water filtration/purification, fire and shelter making gear... An ounce of training/working knowledge is worth more than 10lbs of gear you don't know how to use and concepts you don't understand.
I agree with most everything you said in the video but I don't agree with the premise that your baofeng wont save you. I have 12 baofeng uv9r radios. Those are basically a uv5r but have some water resistance. I guess it depends on your definition of SHTF and your communitys location. Im in a very mountainous rural community called west point CA. We went through a huge fire two julys ago called the electra fire. I had about 15 frs radios that I handed out to all my neighbors to stay in contact and help each other trailoring horses and assisting the elderly. I found out real quick that frs sucks in mountain forests. I could only talk to my two closest neighbors and couldn't hear anyone else. All my neighbors were leas than a mile away but through thick foliage. I ended up giving my farthest neighbor a uv5r and carried around two radios all week. The vhf at 5W was Crystal clear and the frs I think was 2W or less and uhf. I agree it wont go 100 miles and you definitely need to use them to know them but I just programmed a channel in it and locked the screen and my neighbor was able to contact me when she had an asthma attack and we got her an ambulance. Granted thats not a WW3 senario but it might have saved her life. Maybe she would have got help without it but who knows. Anyway I like the fengs because I can afford to buy 12 of them and have them ready to do local simplex in case of emergency. They aren't bad radios at all really. Theres definitely better ones out there but they definitely have a place in my emergency pace plans. Have a good one. Not really arguing here just adding my 2¢
Oh I don't hate Baofengs at all, I've got a few. The moral of the story is that simply buying them won't help you if you don't know how to use them. Sounds like you're dialed in, sir!
Agreed. So many have dual band handheld radios but don't practice using them, even within their "group." Then they fumble around on wrong channels and without proper protocol.
Has someone that has been on a shtf situation (chilean fires) ham radios where super useful, the only thing that could communicate you with emergency services on the zones that where getting burned was radio, celltowers where colapses. Also battery wise, radios rend to last way longer than cellphones. But yeah, you gotta know how to use them before hand
I am a licensed ham operator and have several of the uv5r and just recently got a uv5rm and on high it’s 8 watts I programmed the first channel as simplex and was surprised when I was able to talk to someone that was 7 miles away with no trouble at all and I am not on a mountain anyway there good if you want to be able to talk to someone out on your farm or in a car close to you.
I think the real issue is that most preppers haven't really thought about what their ultimate goal is (for using a HT). If simple (simplex) comms are what is needed, then the fengs are cheap and easy to use, but GMRS/FRS will do the same ( within most preppers scope of knowledge anyways). Repeaters will most likely be a lost cause as most won't understand the offset portion, or how to set it up. Now saying that.... preppers should have a feng or equivalent, in fact, they should have many of them, so they can hand them out to neighbours so a net can be set up locally. Maybe, if they are smart, they'll set up an amp and a proper antenna for C&C to local people. You are right, most preppers are daft on comms, but i would rather have a person be looking at a feng, than having them trying to source one should things go south.
Not sure how this video has been out but, now FRS is 2 watts no license required, Gmrs requires an FCC license. Amateur radio also requires an fcc license and to get that you have take a test basically to show you actually know what you are doing.
Keep walkie talkies in groups you do not need to talk 100 miles plus keep your limited talking distance anywhere from five to eight miles that way you won't be detected as much keep your guard up and keep your frequencies at a minimum always keep the group informed what frequencies going to use tack one tack 2 et cetera and always keep your group informed of the area that they should be only in that is a preppers inspective way we see it there are the halved and have nots and the have nots are grown becoming after the haves so keep your power dry and keep the beans hot
The UV-5R is now obsolete. The Quansheng UV-5K has replaced it, as its firmware is upgradable to 3rd party, and it's USB-C rechargeable. Similar price point to the UV-5R. It does still need special programming software, only available to Win10 or newer, as Chirp doesn't yet support it. I'll also say your wrong that there is no way an HT can hit 100 miles, but it would require a repeater at ~50miles, and both HT's(and the repeater) to be at a significantly higher altitude than surrounding terrain.
Ok, so repeat everything you said, only this time, try to remove the pretentious tone in your voice. You're one of those insufferable Radio operators that Notarubicon talks about.
LMAO 😂. You missed the point entirely. I don't have any problem with Baofeng radios or other cheap radios. I've got several. I'm simply annoyed by the never ending barrage of preppers who ask the same radio questions daily without doing any research, then don't use the radios they buy. Sorry that offends you.
There's just NO REPLACEMENT for training & *FAMILIARITY* !💯! i went to a festival with a techno clutz cousin , & gave him an FRS in case we got seperated or whatever. Since he's *_S0_* *_BAD_* with everything , i took precautions. •selected a channel •turned off CTCSS •set call + roger tones to get his attention vs ambient noise •LOCKED THE KEYPAD ( requiring a "3-finger salute" to UNLock ) •Caribiner clipped it to his beltloop so it couldn't get jostled in his pocket. Well , _SOMEHOW_ he managed to change the channel AND turn on a CTCSS code 🤦🤯. He swore he never touched any of the buttons except "the big one" on the side (ptt) , & the keypad was STILL ( or , once-again i guess ) Locked ! 🙈 ! To this day i've never been able to replicate that. i though i had an _idiot_ _proof_ easy-COMMs solution , but nope.
Hey man not everyone is loaded like you are, if you're going to buy me an expensive handheld with your own money then be my guest otherwise you have no right to complain, it's a cheap and a reliable device less fortunate people can afford and enjoy and you're getting all grumpy about it ?
While I totally agree with your first sentence, the premise of the video is your radios do you no good if you don't know how to use them, which is true.
Don't waste your time with radios. If an emp doesn't destroy your walkies, or k the repeaters arent down you ain't be able to use those repeaters as everyone else will also be trying. You're best bet is using line a garmin inreach product. Satellite takes all of those concerns out of the equation. Communicate via text. It works great
Hurricane Helene in Western NC has proven the need for radios as well as analog scanners. It’s the only thing that worked for nearly a week, and still to this day in some areas. Luckily, the Mount Mitchell tower was still up.
Legit ham operators support ham shops as well as brands like Kenwood, Icon, Yaesu, Alinco, etc. They know not to purchase $20 Chinese Fisher price toy radios like the embarrassing barfFeng garbage. You definitely make a valid point though. I also hate it when wannabe Preppers can't seem to handle spending money on a 1rst tech license book, study, and pass a simple test but rather figure that in an emergency they can just jump on the bands and transmit bookleg!
For sure. They're just going to automatically know how radios work during an emergency? Yeah, ok... Haha. While I do prefer nicer radios, I don't hate cheaper ones, people with cheap radios will inevitably upgrade if they're spending the time to learn and become licensed IMO. Cheap ones are the gateway drug lol
@@philweed1603 Agreed, absolutely. The idea is those you get what you pay for. A well designed radio that costs more will beat out the toy garbage everytime.
I love how people who can't pass a basic license exam are telling on themselves in the comments LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
Watch out everyone... The fans of the William shatner GayMRS channel are here calling us "sad hams" LMAO
Oh no the sad ham thinks the fcc cares
Sorry you're too dense to pass a license exam brosephine. You and the other 13 people on gmrs will save the world lmao
@whiskeysix lol hey buddy you know whats funny you can use the airwaves and nobody cares
@@Dread_Pirate_Homesteader cool cool. So you admittedly don't have an operational knowledge of HF, any digital modes, or just about anything outside the realm of local uhf/vhf. You're totally prepared for... Not much. Congrats Mr pirate. You're the exact person I'm making fun of here.
@@whiskeysixLOL that's fkn funny! Goteeem
People have a tendency to gather the stuff they think will help them, but not know how to use the stuff they're collecting. It's the same way with guns, medical gear, water filtration/purification, fire and shelter making gear... An ounce of training/working knowledge is worth more than 10lbs of gear you don't know how to use and concepts you don't understand.
This is exactly what I'm getting at. Lazy preppers think they're going to buy their way to survival, when in reality, skills will matter way more.
@@whiskeysix So many peppers are just gear geeks.
Its a solid vhf and uhf radio for handhelds
Agreed.
I agree with most everything you said in the video but I don't agree with the premise that your baofeng wont save you. I have 12 baofeng uv9r radios. Those are basically a uv5r but have some water resistance. I guess it depends on your definition of SHTF and your communitys location. Im in a very mountainous rural community called west point CA. We went through a huge fire two julys ago called the electra fire. I had about 15 frs radios that I handed out to all my neighbors to stay in contact and help each other trailoring horses and assisting the elderly. I found out real quick that frs sucks in mountain forests. I could only talk to my two closest neighbors and couldn't hear anyone else. All my neighbors were leas than a mile away but through thick foliage. I ended up giving my farthest neighbor a uv5r and carried around two radios all week. The vhf at 5W was Crystal clear and the frs I think was 2W or less and uhf. I agree it wont go 100 miles and you definitely need to use them to know them but I just programmed a channel in it and locked the screen and my neighbor was able to contact me when she had an asthma attack and we got her an ambulance. Granted thats not a WW3 senario but it might have saved her life. Maybe she would have got help without it but who knows. Anyway I like the fengs because I can afford to buy 12 of them and have them ready to do local simplex in case of emergency. They aren't bad radios at all really. Theres definitely better ones out there but they definitely have a place in my emergency pace plans. Have a good one. Not really arguing here just adding my 2¢
Oh I don't hate Baofengs at all, I've got a few. The moral of the story is that simply buying them won't help you if you don't know how to use them. Sounds like you're dialed in, sir!
Agreed. So many have dual band handheld radios but don't practice using them, even within their "group." Then they fumble around on wrong channels and without proper protocol.
I almost didn’t watch. Good short vid
Has someone that has been on a shtf situation (chilean fires) ham radios where super useful, the only thing that could communicate you with emergency services on the zones that where getting burned was radio, celltowers where colapses. Also battery wise, radios rend to last way longer than cellphones. But yeah, you gotta know how to use them before hand
Same in Western NC with Hurricane Helene.
I am a licensed ham operator and have several of the uv5r and just recently got a uv5rm and on high it’s 8 watts I programmed the first channel as simplex and was surprised when I was able to talk to someone that was 7 miles away with no trouble at all and I am not on a mountain anyway there good if you want to be able to talk to someone out on your farm or in a car close to you.
I think the real issue is that most preppers haven't really thought about what their ultimate goal is (for using a HT). If simple (simplex) comms are what is needed, then the fengs are cheap and easy to use, but GMRS/FRS will do the same ( within most preppers scope of knowledge anyways). Repeaters will most likely be a lost cause as most won't understand the offset portion, or how to set it up.
Now saying that.... preppers should have a feng or equivalent, in fact, they should have many of them, so they can hand them out to neighbours so a net can be set up locally. Maybe, if they are smart, they'll set up an amp and a proper antenna for C&C to local people.
You are right, most preppers are daft on comms, but i would rather have a person be looking at a feng, than having them trying to source one should things go south.
Well said
Not sure how this video has been out but, now FRS is 2 watts no license required, Gmrs requires an FCC license.
Amateur radio also requires an fcc license and to get that you have take a test basically to show you actually know what you are doing.
Keep walkie talkies in groups you do not need to talk 100 miles plus keep your limited talking distance anywhere from five to eight miles that way you won't be detected as much keep your guard up and keep your frequencies at a minimum always keep the group informed what frequencies going to use tack one tack 2 et cetera and always keep your group informed of the area that they should be only in that is a preppers inspective way we see it there are the halved and have nots and the have nots are grown becoming after the haves so keep your power dry and keep the beans hot
I bought a Baofeng and never opened the box. I'm good for SHTF, right? 😂
LOL
You’re screwed.
Dang it where have you been
Working a lot. Also... My wife gave birth to our sixth kid a couple months ago. Yeah... Not too much free time lately haha
The UV-5R is now obsolete. The Quansheng UV-5K has replaced it, as its firmware is upgradable to 3rd party, and it's USB-C rechargeable. Similar price point to the UV-5R. It does still need special programming software, only available to Win10 or newer, as Chirp doesn't yet support it. I'll also say your wrong that there is no way an HT can hit 100 miles, but it would require a repeater at ~50miles, and both HT's(and the repeater) to be at a significantly higher altitude than surrounding terrain.
Which walk ee talk ee can go 100 miles?
Ok, I watched your video. Can I buy some walkie talkies now?
😂
Preppers learn HF and build a portable pack out and go make some POTA activations!!!!
Put a Super-elastic Signal Stick on your ht.
Ok, so repeat everything you said, only this time, try to remove the pretentious tone in your voice. You're one of those insufferable Radio operators that Notarubicon talks about.
LMAO 😂. You missed the point entirely. I don't have any problem with Baofeng radios or other cheap radios. I've got several. I'm simply annoyed by the never ending barrage of preppers who ask the same radio questions daily without doing any research, then don't use the radios they buy. Sorry that offends you.
There's just NO REPLACEMENT
for training & *FAMILIARITY* !💯!
i went to a festival with a techno
clutz cousin , & gave him an FRS
in case we got seperated or
whatever. Since he's *_S0_* *_BAD_*
with everything , i took precautions.
•selected a channel
•turned off CTCSS
•set call + roger tones to get his
attention vs ambient noise
•LOCKED THE KEYPAD ( requiring
a "3-finger salute" to UNLock )
•Caribiner clipped it to his beltloop
so it couldn't get jostled in his
pocket.
Well , _SOMEHOW_ he managed
to change the channel AND turn
on a CTCSS code 🤦🤯. He swore
he never touched any of the
buttons except "the big one" on
the side (ptt) , & the keypad was
STILL ( or , once-again i guess )
Locked ! 🙈 ! To this day i've
never been able to replicate that.
i though i had an _idiot_ _proof_
easy-COMMs solution , but nope.
oops ! meant to POST on the MAIN comments , not here as a reply 🙁
Then with ham there are satellites you can talk on.
Hey man not everyone is loaded like you are, if you're going to buy me an expensive handheld with your own money then be my guest otherwise you have no right to complain, it's a cheap and a reliable device less fortunate people can afford and enjoy and you're getting all grumpy about it ?
Comms are highly situation dependent. The premise of this video is completely false.
While I totally agree with your first sentence, the premise of the video is your radios do you no good if you don't know how to use them, which is true.
Don't waste your time with radios. If an emp doesn't destroy your walkies, or k the repeaters arent down you ain't be able to use those repeaters as everyone else will also be trying. You're best bet is using line a garmin inreach product. Satellite takes all of those concerns out of the equation. Communicate via text. It works great
Hurricane Helene in Western NC has proven the need for radios as well as analog scanners. It’s the only thing that worked for nearly a week, and still to this day in some areas. Luckily, the Mount Mitchell tower was still up.
Legit ham operators support ham shops as well as brands like Kenwood, Icon, Yaesu, Alinco, etc.
They know not to purchase $20 Chinese Fisher price toy radios like the embarrassing barfFeng garbage.
You definitely make a valid point though. I also hate it when wannabe Preppers can't seem to handle spending money on a 1rst tech license book, study, and pass a simple test but rather figure that in an emergency they can just jump on the bands and transmit bookleg!
For sure. They're just going to automatically know how radios work during an emergency? Yeah, ok... Haha. While I do prefer nicer radios, I don't hate cheaper ones, people with cheap radios will inevitably upgrade if they're spending the time to learn and become licensed IMO. Cheap ones are the gateway drug lol
All your radios are Chinese or have Chinese components.
How about your Chinese cellphone? Gimme a break.
@@philweed1603 Agreed, absolutely. The idea is those you get what you pay for. A well designed radio that costs more will beat out the toy garbage everytime.
@@adventureseeker9800 Beat it out how? Durability? Features?