inputs.text: potential ehemergency comm purposes antenna weak point - reviews seem coming hams experienced expensive hts cheaper ones dont experience expensive icom kenwood hts first ht baofeng said viewing potential upgrade 3050 baofeng involved community emergency response team cert using frsgmrs local communications ham frequencies longer range communications theres interest using murs local communications well cert program requires everything legally since arent many murs certified radios none available purchase amazon represents problem said radio presents opportunity fcc part 90 part 95 part 97 certified use commercial gmrs murs ham frequencies 150 question work well enough easy enough recommend people picking 60 frsgmrs radio bubble packs clear radio cannot frs legally due antenna replaceable power level also restricted frs frequencies 5 watt could theoretically restricted via software access shared frsgmrs channels dedicated gmrs channels motorola frs radio channels 17 1522 comparing radios channels 814 frs order legally use gmrs frequencies need gmrs fcc license 90 5 years good entire immediate family murs license free one note radio gmrs repeater channels built available higher end bubble pack radios switch ham gmrs murs need power radio hold key turn switch part 95 option normal gmrs murs also restricts monitoring one channel build quality seems good radio feels substantial hand seems fat compared baofeng uv82 like charging port built battery allow use car charger baofengs limited battery eliminator car programming stand point right youre limited hand programming using anytone provided free software anytonetechcom website chirp hopefully model added soon unfortunately said anytone software limited cannot copy paste no offset field actually need type receive transmit frequencies manually software manual operation quite frankly prefer baofeng menu system hit menu button navigate menu find want hit menu change setting hit menu accept anytone need hit func 8 use channel selector knob navigate either hit 1 edit menu use main vm buttons edit depending mode still havent figured set direction repeater offset also 2m offset defaulted 50mhz standard 70cm not 2m didnt seem option type offset wanted use channel selector knob dial way 06mhz bank system good idea switching bank mode requires diving menu system likely assigning channel bank switching bank mode learning curve aside manual quite decent well written 55 stars like read manuals prefer device intuitive need use manual advanced features 35 stars biggest problem stock antenna appears cut ham frequencies barely covers gmrs murs represents problem sidebyside bubble pack frs 30 radio perform radio gmrs testing could not hear base camp termn8r could hear motorola frsgmrs radio hand able hear transmitted anytone occurred testing murs default squelch 3 set unable hear transmissions reported transmissions weak barely breaking squelch using baofeng uv82 antenna seems improve little bit still not enough make radio one recommend cert communications currently looking finding better wider band antenna pair radio update review find one update sidebyside comparison using kenwood tmv71a mobile ham radio attached comet ca2x4sr search rescue antenna anytone termn8r baofeng uv82 monitoring radio check frsgmrs 2 people transmitting using bubble pack frs radios kenwood heard everything without issue baofeng heard 95 traffic issue noticed little slow receive sometimes might power save setting anytone not pick good chunk transmissions distant parties not picked transmissions picked termn8r noticeably noisier radios swap stock antennas baofeng anytone early swapped back not seem make difference rma anytone order another case happen one somehow defective hand next monday ill consider attaching anytone comet antenna see improves receive