I got all excited and ordered this...

I guess you can say it's my Christmas gift to myself.
Gotta start somewhere and these will be handy in certain situations...
UV-5RM $69.99







Fits very nice in my paw!

I'll be poking around in the software tomorrow. I still have a lot of reading to do, but it doesn't seem too intimidating.

I'm enjoy the radios a lot, and the chirp software is pretty good stuff.
So this was my next purchase.
These are the AR-5RM radios... the unlocked version with different style of antennas.



Then I bought these...



Although these radios have a nice size battery to start with (2500 mAh) I thought a couple larger batteries couldn't hurt. Right?

Yes, I've been talking on these quite a bit. Undertaker has a set of these and he is just over a half mile from me (as measured via Google Earth) and we talk at least once a day. Me in my house and him in his recliner. Perfectly clear audio. They're also both turned down to 5 watts. We have also talked when I'm in my office which is 1 1/2 miles from him. And if you're wondering... yes, we both have our gmrs license. It takes all of about 24 hours to get your call sign.

I recently hit a local repeater that's 7 miles away. Not too bad!! They're definitely fun radios to operate.

Copycat32 said:

I'm looking to put up a base antenna.. Already have 5 antennas up.. Lol have to find a place for it.. Might move my horizontal to the back of my house and put the gmrs antenna just above it.,
.

Click to expand...

Did you manage to get a base gmrs antenna up?
I've got a gmrs mobile radio, base antenna, and 50 ft of coax in a shopping cart. I just haven't pulled the trigger yet. Same issue you have, where to put another antenna.

Copycat32 said:

Hi no not yet I have the antena the radio took everything down to upgrade and had an operation so I'm down till spring just got hit wit a foot of snow and 0 temps updating cb hame gmrs fm stereo antennas and cables hope to be back on the air b4 summer

Click to expand...

I'm sorry to hear about your surgery. I hope it was successful. Yeah, this is definitely not the time of year to be outside screwing with antennas.
Stay safe, stay warm and heal fast!
73