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[–] the_football_maestro@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?

[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Most activity, I've seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there's a lemmy bug that's not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.

These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573

[–] RoadieRich@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

There's also !amateur_radio@lemmy.radio which is reasonably active.

[–] TheThinker@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.

[–] minorsecond@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.