FCC after your BaoFeng!

**gun-bunny** · October 6th, 2018, 09:36 PM

FCC DA 18-980
Give up your BoaFengs! Your too stupid to use them without interfering with us. Think of the children!
Notice the similarity between the fight between a three letter agency and a group of hobbyists?
The slow drip of regulations that are baseless that preside over a legally purchased item.

You know what's really funny? He's got a petition going on, of all places, Change.org! Now that's just funny, the use of an organization like that to actually do some good: https://www.change.org/p/laura-smith...2-318a236cc861

**streaker69** · October 6th, 2018, 09:39 PM

They can have my Baofeng when they pry it from my cold dead hands, and I only ever use it in the FRS bands.

**ExFlyinguy** · October 6th, 2018, 10:03 PM

I got one of those as a Christmas gift. I can confirm that I AM too stupid to use it. I have no fucking idea how it works.

Maybe what I got just looks like the one in the pic ....whatever I still can't use it

**streaker69** · October 6th, 2018, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by ExFlyinguy

I got one of those as a Christmas gift. I can confirm that I AM too stupid to use it. I have no fucking idea how it works.

Maybe what I got just looks like the one in the pick ///whatever I still can't use it

Step one, Switch it out of the Chinese language.

**Bug44** · October 6th, 2018, 10:12 PM

Chirp software is your friend

**ExFlyinguy** · October 6th, 2018, 10:12 PM

Yep it says baofeng

dont remember seeing any Chinese Language. Are they worth anything? Maybe I could sell it. I was going to throw it in the trash but wife wouldn't let me

**streaker69** · October 6th, 2018, 10:13 PM

If you're throwing it anywhere throw it my way.

Bug44 is right, Chirp is your friend. You need it to program it properly.

**markshere2** · October 8th, 2018, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by ExFlyinguy

I got one of those as a Christmas gift. I can confirm that I AM too stupid to use it. I have no fucking idea how it works.

Maybe what I got just looks like the one in the pic ....whatever I still can't use it

Ditto

**Parrisk** · October 10th, 2018, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by ExFlyinguy

I got one of those as a Christmas gift. I can confirm that I AM too stupid to use it. I have no fucking idea how it works.

Maybe what I got just looks like the one in the pic ....whatever I still can't use it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnnXa-nV-jc

**Gripsafety** · October 7th, 2018, 10:23 AM

Originally Posted by streaker69

They can have my Baofeng when they pry it from my cold dead hands, and I only ever use it in the FRS bands.

The high power setting is too much for all of the FRS channels, and the low power setting is still too much for channels 8-14. If you pay The King $90 for a GMRS license and get entered into his database, you get to use full (5W) power on channels 1-7 of The King's airwaves. It is one of the FCC's silliest rules.

For amateur frequencies, nobody is asking to see a license when you buy a radio or power amplifier. You can buy a marine radio or a radio that operates on just about any useful frequency without showing a license. The only problem with the Baofeng is that it's cheap and other radio manufacturers are feeling the heat.

I can make a radio transmit on any frequency I want (including commercial broadcast) and at any power level I want. The only obstacles are money and desire to do so (and the fact that use of such radio would be illegal).