Quality discussion on NVIS antennas:
A great, very low cost DIY antenna for local comms on HF.
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Hey! What gmsr radio would you recommend for someone new to radios and is getting into preparedness?
Midland makes some good handhelds that come in a set for a decent price. Baofeng makes a uv-5r variant specifically for GMRS.
This video has some to consider too.
You could do much of what this video discusses with a uv5r. There is a seller on eBay called n9tax that sells a good roll up antenna like the one discussed in the video. He makes them for a variety of bands and with different connectors, so make sure double check those options.
You can get BNC adapters for a uv5r. Amazon has them, those would be SMA female to BNC female.
Radio for Disaster Preparedness:
Also, worth considering the tip about using BNC adapters to make your various radios and antennas quickly interchangeable.
A great reference for the ham radio frequency spectrum.
https://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Band%20Chart/Hambands%20vertical%20rev%20Feb-2023.pdf
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WPSD is a next-generation, digital voice software suite for amateur radio use. It is used for personal hotspots and repeaters alike. It supports M17, DMR, D-Star, Yaesu System Fusion (YSF/C4FM), P25, NXDN digital voice modes & POCSAG data/paging.
WPSD began as a derivative (“fork”) of, and has greatly-diverged from, the very popular Pi-Star software; and WPSD has evolved into its very own software suite and distribution. It is available as an installable disk image(s), and multiple platforms are supported. The WPSD Project is free and open-source software (FOSS).
Make your own antennas.
This is just one way this could be done without a high degree of technical sophistication.
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