Seeing as there are quite a few amateur radio operators in this forum, I thought it might be nice to have a thread to share information and funny things related to amateur radio.
Recently bought a Baofeng UV-5R on amazon, only $22 and it actually appears to be a well made device. I was able to tune in to NOAA weather radio (No big deal, 162.400 megahertz) but find it lacking with many of the frequencies found in radioreference.com. Only periodically get a set of digital...
Anybody out there? I was looking through the archives and found some very old threads on radios and emergency preparedness, but doesn't seem like a lot of activity around here for the subject. I am growing more interested by the day. Thinking about taking my tech test at the Green Country...