/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1248604
Basically what >>1248655 said.
But I wouldn't even call them "good" radios. You get a lot of radio for the money, sure, but they're still pretty shitty radios.
Legal issues aside...
>get your damn ham license, it's cheap/easy.
My 5-watt baomeme meters a little over 3.5 on a calibrated power meter.
The receivers are pretty terrible. A better antenna helps, but the receiver still isn't very selective.

But for $30, yeah, it's decent if radio's a hobby you're interested in.
If you just want to talk with friends when you're innawoods, go with a sporting-goods store frs/gmrs radio. Those will work better, and they're a hell of a lot easier to use.

>using Baofeng as a unit of currency
>The cheap Motorola speaker-mic is about B1.5
>the nicer speaker-mic is about B2.5
>those radios are about B35/ea