/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2790686
>baofengs are absolute dog shit for anything
Can confirm. It's the only bad radio I have. So bad I can't bring myself to sell it to some unsuspecting idiot. Low TX audio that makes comms difficult even when full quieting. RX signal on one frequency bleeds into another 2 MHz away (see pic) even though 7 km from transmitter site. Sporadic noise? breaks squelch constantly while my other radios attached to higher gain antennas don't react. Construction quality leaves a lot to be desired. I had low expectations when I bought it but, man, they're worse than I imagined. I generally avoid any topic about them as they have such a large fanboi following, none of whom are qualified radio guys.

>>2790651
>I think they should take like 3-5mhz away from the boomers in vhf and give it to CB, they dont even use it.
Eh, why bother? CB is pretty dead too and FRS channels hardly used.