2-way radios

No such animal available in Canada unless you have a radio operators licence. And don't drink the koolaid on the packaging of the FRS radios. One mile at best in flat terrain, no trees, in perfect conditions. A 5watt VHF would likely do it but (don't quote me) think you require a land based radio operators licence. More educated people than I may chime in?
 
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No such animal available in Canada unless you have a radio operators licence. And don't drink the koolaid on the packaging of the FRS radios. One mile at best in flat terrain, no trees, in perfect conditions. A 5watt VHF would likely do it but (don't quote me) think you require a land based radio operators licence. More educated people than I may chime in?
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You can buy a VHF radio, but you may not use it unless you have a radio licence. Well, you can use it...but it's technically illegal.
 
You can use a CB or FRS radio, this requires no licenses.

VHF and UHF you need an amateur radio license, which i do have :) VE3MVE. There is no yearly fee and all you need is to review then pass an exam. You can buy the radio's at radioworld or chinese branded on ebay.

Strongly suggest not to transmit on the amateur frequencies without a license. Stiff penalties as listed below.


--Radiocommunications Act --

Superfluous Communications and Interference:
A person found guilty of transmitting a false or fraudulent distress signal, or
interfering with, or obstructing any radio communication, without lawful cause,
may be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of: a fine, not exceeding
$25 000, or a prison term of one year, or both
 
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See Frank at North Trail Sports, he is a CGN sponsor and he sells Puxing and Baofeng radios. Our group bought Puxing dual band VHF / UHF radios from him and they work great. The range depends on terrain but 5 km in the open and about 2 km in the bush for ours. It puts out 5 watts on VHF and 4.5 on UHF. We usually use VHF but if there is someone in our group with a mickey mouse GMRS radio we will use a UHF freq to match theirs.

As these are more powerful, a radio licence is required and you should ensure your not operating on someone else's frequency.
 
bush1 said:
See Frank at North Trail Sports, he is a CGN sponsor and he sells Puxing and Baofeng radios. Our group bought Puxing dual band VHF / UHF radios from him and they work great. The range depends on terrain but 5 km in the open and about 2 km in the bush for ours. It puts out 5 watts on VHF and 4.5 on UHF. We usually use VHF but if there is someone in our group with a mickey mouse GMRS radio we will use a UHF freq to match theirs.

As these are more powerful, a radio licence is required and you should ensure your not operating on someone else's frequency.
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Hi bush, I'm guessing your group is using these for coyote hunting have you had any issues with the law when using these radios? I'd like to get our group switched over to this type of radio. The stupid FRS just don't cut it but nervous about the legalities. We want a better way to communicate but not if we have to pay fines or go to jail to do it. Have you had any issues with interrupting someone else's frequency?
 
cdn1canhunt said:
Hi bush, I'm guessing your group is using these for coyote hunting have you had any issues with the law when using these radios? I'd like to get our group switched over to this type of radio. The stupid FRS just don't cut it but nervous about the legalities. We want a better way to communicate but not if we have to pay fines or go to jail to do it. Have you had any issues with interrupting someone else's frequency?
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We use them for Moose hunting and it works great for us. There are logging trucks in our Moose area and they transmit on a certain VHF frequency and we keep an ear out for them as they regularly transmit their position. As for interference, just look up public frequencies and use them. Also look up emerg and reserved freqs and avoid them. Myself and a few others in our group are licensed and a couple of guys are not. As was mentioned in this thread getting a licence it easy so no excuse to not have one.
 
ironsighter said:
Yep. Amazon or ebay some Baofeng UV-5R radios. Amazing for the price. Absolutely kills the toy-like FRS/GMRS crap, but the user needs to be willing to invest some time to learn how to program and use it (AND HOW NOT TO USE IT).

This is an excellent resource! http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/
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Another vote for Baofeng UV 5R+ you can program them with free software; FRS, GMRS, and VHF UHF...yes only use with proper licence. Listening to the amateur "nets" have gotten me interested in getting my licence.
Lots of accessories, extended batteries, cases, ear pieces etc. $50 each on ebay.
 
mikoyv said:
You can use a CB or FRS radio, this requires no licenses.

VHF and UHF you need an amateur radio license, which i do have :) VE3MVE. There is no yearly fee and all you need is to review then pass an exam. You can buy the radio's at radioworld or chinese branded on ebay.

Strongly suggest not to transmit on the amateur frequencies without a license. Stiff penalties as listed below.


--Radiocommunications Act --

Superfluous Communications and Interference:
A person found guilty of transmitting a false or fraudulent distress signal, or
interfering with, or obstructing any radio communication, without lawful cause,
may be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of: a fine, not exceeding
$25 000, or a prison term of one year, or both
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What involved in getting a license now ? no code?
 
silverfoxdj said:
What involved in getting a license now ? no code?
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Take a course with a local radio club who has instructors on hand. I am currently taking mine, it is a 20 hour course (2hrs over 10 weeks) and then you complete an exam at the end. The course is simply to educate you and bring you up to speed on the exam. However the exam questions are publically available through the federal government. There is a bank of 1000 questions they will pull from. However some of them get very technical, and the material is primarily designed to help users build there own kit radios or repair existing equipment as well as educate on the laws. If you simply intend to pickup a small handheld to do some bush work the course is overkill however you will have the appropriate qualification to use the 5W bands within the law.

So technically you can study the questions/answers or just go and take a stab at it if you have an examiner in your area and be ready to go.
 
guido said:
I've learned this. how far are the old hand held cb radios good for?
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We just upgraded to VHF but before that we used CB mobiles and also CB portables. These units had A B C D E F band with 40 channels on each band. C was your regular CB band. The portable would go a couple of miles but only needed to get to our mobiles which were all boosted and on a good day we would get 15 mile and better on high ground. The only reason we switched was the SKIP on the clear days. The vhf portables give us a bit more distance but no SKIP noise and we paided for no noise.
We still have our old units for sale..
 
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