I like the TD-H3. I love the design of the display, where you can see channel name, channel number and frequency all at once. And it's a clean signal, no strong spurious signals, vs. the Baofeng which is really dirty.
I am completely new to radios but have seen the need/use case with the recent natural disasters. As most of my family lives in a small city or a few miles outside of a small city, do I go GMRS for the simplicity or should I delve into HAM even though I would probably be the only one to get licensed and will be possibly further away from said family?
Go ahead and get the GMRS license since it's easy and cheap. Get used to using it and meet the local people in the repeaters if there's any in your area. Get the family in on some basic comms. Then go ahead with ham on your own so you get the knowledge and license to operate some more robust and farther reaching equipment. You'll probably be alone in that endeavor, but your skills would be beneficial for the entire group if you ever need to employ them.
@WesleyKennedy Stop what you are doing and buy two things. A baofeng UV5R on Amazon special for $20-30, and a book called "the guerillas guide to the baofeng radio" (make sure it's the one by "NC Scout". He was actively teaching guys in the field in WNC during the hurricane relief efforts. You will save yourself a lot of headaches and money later down the line when/if you decide to upgrade radios or decide on another path.
What I would like to see is some videos of the Motorola Astro saber that you got I have a few of them they're one of my favorite radios and the sound quality is amazing compared to the Chinese radius
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Do you have a link for that castle nut tool? I’ve been needing one of those for about 30 years, but I can’t seem to find one googling around.
I like the TD-H3. I love the design of the display, where you can see channel name, channel number and frequency all at once. And it's a clean signal, no strong spurious signals, vs. the Baofeng which is really dirty.
I am completely new to radios but have seen the need/use case with the recent natural disasters. As most of my family lives in a small city or a few miles outside of a small city, do I go GMRS for the simplicity or should I delve into HAM even though I would probably be the only one to get licensed and will be possibly further away from said family?
Go ahead and get the GMRS license since it's easy and cheap. Get used to using it and meet the local people in the repeaters if there's any in your area. Get the family in on some basic comms. Then go ahead with ham on your own so you get the knowledge and license to operate some more robust and farther reaching equipment. You'll probably be alone in that endeavor, but your skills would be beneficial for the entire group if you ever need to employ them.
You can use HAM in an emergency emergency without a license, but you can also use MURS frequencies with no license.
Infer from that what you can.
@@griftinggamer I don't quite follow you - I'm super new on this subject
@WesleyKennedy
Stop what you are doing and buy two things. A baofeng UV5R on Amazon special for $20-30, and a book called "the guerillas guide to the baofeng radio" (make sure it's the one by "NC Scout". He was actively teaching guys in the field in WNC during the hurricane relief efforts.
You will save yourself a lot of headaches and money later down the line when/if you decide to upgrade radios or decide on another path.
The H3 is way better than the uv5r in both features and function. It's a great little radio, especially for the price.
What I would like to see is some videos of the Motorola Astro saber that you got I have a few of them they're one of my favorite radios and the sound quality is amazing compared to the Chinese radius