Amazon has a BAOFENG UV-5RA (New Generation) Long Rang Walkie Talkie or handheld HAM radio starting at $16.23 each with free shipping and returns on orders $35.00+.
Be ready, times are only going to get crazier and more dangerous. These are great backup and family radios to complement your primary survival HAM radio base.
This deal is cheap enough to make sure every family member has one in their bugout bags. HAM radios are great during emergencies, so you can pull in the police, fire, and some military broadcasts, as well as FM radio.
Note, to broadcast or for 2-way communication with this unit, you will need an amateur radio license(or do you? SHTF). You can get the CHIRP software here: chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home. Antennas and extra batteries are found here on Amazon.
Baofeng UV 5RA Ham Two Way Radio ~ $16.23 EA
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The Baofeng UV 5RA are well-reviewed:
A great deal of bad info here. I am a ham (Extra class) and own this radio. 1: It is not illegal to own this radio. It is illegal for the radio to be advertised and sold commercially until it has been made compliant. The radio Amazon is currently selling has been made compliant. BTW, you can program this radio manually (yes, I have done it), using a commercial program (sometimes included with the radio and/or programming cable) or a free program called CHIRP. I use CHIRP. It runs on Windows, Linux and (I believe) Mac. I’m using it on… Read more »
“We need to close the Radio Show loophole that allows unlicensed people to get HAM radios.”
“We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Licenses” For Anything!!! From My Cold Dead Radios!!!
I plan to buy one of these for emergency use only because, not interested in having a talk show. When TSHTF all rules and regulations will be out the window. I doubt the Feds will be enforcing anything. They will be trying to take care of themselves. You see it now with the riots going on.
What, are the Feds really driving around in monitoring vans similar to the old Gestapo movie monitoring trucks with the circular antenna on top, looking for “illegal transmissions” by ‘Merican partisans?
Best Uncle Sucker rewatch some of those old films and see what eventually happens to the “Goose Steppers” operating the monitoring equipment within. “Green Tips” not required for penetrating those “Military Grade Aluminum” van bodies with “thru & thru’s” that do Swiss cheese proud.
Snoopers get “sun lighted”…
BTW when I say 2 miles it’s with the family walkie channels. Stay off the HAM and stay below the radar.
The license is nothing to get but even then we don’t use it cause of all the government snitch ears on here. They tell on each other so much it’s not even funny. The reason they are so mad on here is cause they can’t monitor us.
Most of us just want comms to hunt, emergency or safety.
Also available straight from Chiner via Fleabay for $10. How is it even possible at either price?
NO! In fact, you would likely be thought a hero for getting them help the quickest way possible, that way!
So, If my buddy and I are hunting an hour from any main road and 2 hours from arena small town what are the realistic chances of getting busted for using these without a license?
I’d like to add to the discussion that if you were to get this radio you might check out the Imminent Threat Solutions 10-4 Radio Pouch. I haven’t actually used one yet but it appears to have some functions that no one else does. I buying 2 on payday.