[quote="Tbolt"]Thank you for your comprehensive posting on the topic. One question: Would it make sense to get GMRS radios and allocate on channel to the Black Rock repeater ( 440.175)?[/quote] A GMRS radio won’t be able to access the BRD repeater, but the 888 can. Since the last post, the FCC has o...

[quote="swerve_tha_unicorn"] Heyooo, I just got some BF-888s and have gotten all familiar with drivers and how to use CHIRP, I'm wondering if you can send me the .CSV for the programming you did on these....[/quote] TLDR; I couldn't tell you what frequencies you can program in, and even if I gave yo...

I have often wished that there was one BMIR for music, interviews, etc. and a second frequency for PSA's, theme camp event announcements, gate and infrastructure announcements, etc. Burn your radio. Or sign up for a BMIR shift and play what you like, or just do PSAs and interviews during your shift.

For the record, in an emergency, it is legal to use any frequency necessary, licensed or not. It better be a really darned good emergency, where someone's life is at risk. People have been criminally charged (in other jurisdictions) for keying up on police bands when they determined is wasn't a lif...

duckdive wrote:And I'm guess that the bugs also have an effect on the radio transmission. I hope they aren't as bad as last year.

UHF should punch right through bugs. Better yet, jack up the frequency and power and cook the little shits right out of the sky.

[quote="Just_Joe"][quote="A-RockLeFrench"] Does this mean I have to plug them into a computer to program grew/channel presets into them?[/quote] Probably not. Programming these (Beofung) radios manually is a PITA, but the learning curve of the software and requirement of a special USB to Serial cabl...