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First, congrats! You can make contacts with that Baofeng if you can reach a repeater. You may want to try building a ground plane antenna and putting it on the roof, which would extend your range quite a bit. The first time I tried to make a contact, I went to a few repeaters, gave my call sign and and said "listening", but no one wanted to respond! Finally in frustration and as a joke, I blurted out "Breaker breaker, any good buddies on this repeater gotta copy on me"? To my amazement, about four Hams came right out of the woodwork to scold me!!

[QUOTE="SpaceMann, post: 460065, member: 39621"] First, congrats! You can make contacts with that Baofeng if you can reach a repeater. You may want to try building a ground plane antenna and putting it on the roof, which would extend your range quite a bit. The first time I tried to make a contact, I went to a few repeaters, gave my call sign and and said "listening", but no one wanted to respond! Finally in frustration and as a joke, I blurted out "Breaker breaker, any good buddies on this repeater gotta copy on me"? To my amazement, about four Hams came right out of the woodwork to scold me!! :) [/QUOTE]

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