New Product Announcement - 2 way radios

I have 5 Boafengs for my family now.

We use them camping, hiking, biking, and on the road between vehicles.

I keep a print out of frequencies used by the Highway Crews to listen in during road construction on highways like wash outs.

Biggest bang for the buck, the long whip antennas help with the range but even the stock rubber ones wourk way better than any CB or FRS radio.

I have extra batteries, car charger, holster, the data programming cable and software.

Buy one, you will gt lots of use of out it.
 
What kind of batteries do they use? And how long do you get out of each battery with the radio set on it's highest power setting?

randyhub said:
I have 5 Boafengs for my family now.

We use them camping, hiking, biking, and on the road between vehicles.

I keep a print out of frequencies used by the Highway Crews to listen in during road construction on highways like wash outs.

Biggest bang for the buck, the long whip antennas help with the range but even the stock rubber ones wourk way better than any CB or FRS radio.

I have extra batteries, car charger, holster, the data programming cable and software.

Buy one, you will gt lots of use of out it.
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bobdbldr said:
Thanks good info, what do you think of these,, good price, moderate Quality?
Canam, let us know when all the extras come in, I only wAnt to order once on these rigs!
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There is no harm is purchasing these radios to see if you are actually going to use a two-way radio, as you can always upgrade later.
 
VanMan said:
What kind of batteries do they use? And how long do you get out of each battery with the radio set on it's highest power setting?
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I have a GT series radio, which the sames as these, plus 3 - UV3s (smaller radios), and 2 - 888s.

They all have different batteries, but I bought spares, they were cheap like 7.00 each, plus battery eliminators that plug into my 12v outlet.

I have never run the batteries all the way down they last quite awhile, but you can also buy larger higher cap batteries if required.

The thing to remember, is these Baofengs beat out most radios on performance and value and are pretty solid.

Accessories are easy to get and cheap.

All in all, these radios cannot be beat for value, Canada Ammo made a great choice here. :)
 
imark93 said:
Okay if I buy 2 can I easily talk with my buddy while hiking/camping? Just turn it on, select channel and go?
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nope, these have no channels.
when you study to pass the exam for the licence you learn how to select the communication frequencies.
 
I just programmed mine all with the same frequency.

These are nothing like CBs or FRS radios, you need to be careful how and where you use them, they are not toys.

Problem is if you do not respect the frequency usage it messes it up for those who do.

Getting a HAM license is best or at very least spending time with those who do, will help a person understand how important UHF and VHF are for communicating.
 
BabySeal said:
Can am, when you get the cables, please ask for and share the latest drivers for them. I had a helluva time finding the right driver last time I programmed my radio and with a new computer, I am going to have to go through the process all over again.

Once that is sorted chirp works great.
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I had similar problems with driver issues. Rather than wrestle with driver issues on my primary computer and risking all sorts of headaches, instead I took an old laptop and installed Ubuntu on it. Chirp works great on that old workhorse and in my experience, Ubuntu has less headaches than Windows and OSX when it comes to the USB driver needed for the inexpensive Baofeng programming cables. (Tried Centos and other linux distros too, but they were a lot more work to get sorted with CHIRP and the cheap USB to serial chipset used in those Baofeng cables)
 
randyhub said:
All in all, these radios cannot be beat for value, Canada Ammo made a great choice here. :)
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Totally agree. Hard to go wrong with a Baofeng given the price/value. I particularly like the UV-82HP (called UV-82HX when ordering direct from China) and if Canada Ammo starts stocking that model I know of 2 people who are looking to buy some.
 
Brocolt said:
So if my employer has a license for the frequency channel which we use for work & we do, can I run this radio on our frequency channel?
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I recall looking into this and if my memory is correct, the rules state that you can only use radios approved by Industry Canada for use on the commercial frequency licensed to your employer. ie. You are not supposed to use your personal ham radio to tune into your employers commercial frequency and transmit. That being said, I don't know how anyone would ever know that you were doing this unless your handset was shoddy (sending out "spurious emissions", etc) and IC was called in to investigate.
 
I see the HAM band getting tossed around but these don't stop there. They range through pretty much the whole commercial, government, HAM, private license and Marine VHF and UHF frequencies. If caught transmitting(causing interference) on a regulated frequency, you could find yourself with some hefty fines.
 
grox6 said:
Watch out for the knock-off Nagoya antenna's: I've ordered a bunch of Nagoya's and some of them are worse than the stock antenna's that came with my UV82's.
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how do you like your UV82 radio as I'm thinking of this model or the UV-5R
 
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