On 5/17/2015 6:29 PM, Channel Jumper wrote:
gareth;839585 Wrote:
Obviously I'd heard of the Baofeng products, and this weekend
was my first opportunity to see one in the flesh, but not in amateur
service, for I was a jump judge at an equestrian event and some of
these
little beauties were the 2-way radios supplied to each fence.

Interesting to compare the march of time because a couple of years ago
I picked up a Pye Ranger, a valve PMR, dated 1969, and the microphone
alone
is bigger than those Baofeng jobbies.

And this event was licensed HOW?

These little beauties as you put it, are not compatible with GMRS or
LMRS rules - Part 90.
They have a detachable antenna and they put out more than one half of
one watt - so they are not legal for FRS.
I'm not sure of all the rules in MURS - but I would venture to say that
they are not suitable for it either.

It's the morons that wants cheap communications that ruins two way radio
for the rest of us!





And exactly what are the rules in the U.K. - where Gareth is?

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