#HamRadio
I'm thinking about purchasing this ham radio, any suggestions, thoughts or warnings?
BAOFENG Walkie Talkies UV-5R 8W Handheld Ham Radio with 3800mAh Battery,FM Radio https://a.co/d/cwdZPJQ
Discussion
It looks interesting, what particular Ham activities are you interested in?
It's a fine first radio for the price to learn.
The Anytone 878 is a really nice radio VHF/UHF FM and DMR, and it has a built-in GPS. The audio is good too, both on transmit and receive. It's not cheap but you'll won't be in a rush to upgrade ...
Is this what you are talking about
If you can spring for it, the plus version has memory for a larger contact list (500K vs 200K). The contact list is what's used to display a user's name, callsign and location on the display.
To use DMR, you'll need to register with https://www.radioid.net to get a DMR ID - a seven digit number. This is what the DMR network uses to identify you and route your call. If you don't have the remote user's ID in the contact list in your phone, then the conversation proceeds just fine, but the display just shows the ID number.
When I got my 878, 200K was way above the number of registered IDs so I could load the whole contact database. Now there are well above 200K so it's necessary to selectively omit certain regions when downloading the contact list database, which radioid.net makes it easy to do.
This is the enhanced version: https://www.bridgecomsystems.com/pages/anytone-878uvii-plus
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