In your opinion, what do you thing would be the best frequencies to use for the week? UHF in general penetrates the city well, so I'd stick to the UHF channels I listed. If you were to pick up "enhanced" antennas for your radios that improve VHF performance, then it's worth trying out VHF. My vote,...

So now that all of us have read this post and have made our orders on Amazon, are the 3 MURS frequencies going to be jammed? (At least for those of us who want to stay legal) HAHAHA... Most likely! But remember, I did post a bunch of other VHF channels and UHF channels outside of MURS and FRS to us...

Thanks to your post, I have ordered 2 of the UV82 radios. Cannot thank you enough. happy to be of assistance and glad it was enough to spur you purchasing the UV82's. I'm debating having programming sessions on-playa during the event should anyone be having trouble with their new toys. If I think I...

This should be stickied someplace on the forum. Outstanding information! The BM site should include it there. There are reasons they won't put it on the website, and they're understandable. There's potential liability in providing _all_ the information I do in my posting. If it was trimmed down sig...

I don't use a radio out there but I have to commend you on taking the time to write such a great post. Thank you. Thanks! It's something that I felt has been sorely missing. And most burners I've known over the years, even if it's not in their area of expertise, will nearly always read a primer if ...

ARock: yes. The Baofeng/Pofung 888s are programmed by a PC. They come with software (really poor quality software that rarely works properly) or you can use what the hams use: CHIRP. Its free, stable and very nice. Google "CHIRP RADIO SOFTWARE" for the free download sites. the 888's are great... an...

I just gave away a box full of Mobile CB radios. Some good, some bad, one two channel rig. Pile of antennas. All peaked and tweaked, ready to go. A Jeep/Rock crawler group grabbed them. Kept my base station, test equipment & meters, one mobile, a half wave and quarter wave antenna and a couple of k...

trilobyte wrote:Great write-up, and welcome to the site!

Thanks. Actually been around and used the site under another pseudonym for a very long time, but not very active. Didn't remember my old login so it was just easier to create a new one.

Great information, but I want to be very clear about one thing: There is no such thing as a reserved freq in MURS. In particular, Burningman has absolutely no priority whatsoever on MURS 4 or 5, and as long as an emergency is not in progress. According to the FCC rules, any person may use these fre...

Radios at Burning Man: A Guide for the Confused Overview Maybe you've been to Burning Man before or maybe you're a virgin. Either way, you may have been considering buying some two-way radios to take out to the playa. In this write-up I made about 6 years ago (I’ve made some edits as it was more a ...