[bars] I wish get in contact with Jim Evans

[Steven Schultz]

Thanks Ed.

Will be doing some more checking into this.
I seemed to have been bewildered by all the choices I saw.

My immediate desire is to get into Billerica Repeater.

I have a fine mobile radio that can do that but it has been moved and I
will be retrieving it soon.

Thanks Again,

Steve
AC1EX

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:43 PM Edward Lipchus <trilsys at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't have Jim Evans's info, but for what it's worth, I have a Baofeng
> UV-5R HT. I am quite pleased with it. It's only about $35 on eBay or
> Amazon. The sound from the speaker is loud and fairly clear. It works with
> a headset. You can program it with Chirp. The included software I am told
> is, charitably, murky, and it runs only on Windows. I use Ubuntu. Chirp is
> fine. The stub antenna is pretty poor, but I changed to a Nagoya whip
> antenna and noticed a big difference. In my car, I use an MJS-1729 magnetic
> mount dual band antenna and I can stay connected to the Waltham repeater
> almost all the way home to Reading. Billerica repeater is clear from my
> house if I'm on the second floor with the Nagoya. The user manual is pretty
> bad.
>
> The UV-5R is nominally 5 watts output. They have recently come out with a
> model that looks to be identical except with 8 watts and a bigger battery
> for around $65. I don't know how much better it is IRL. For any HT uses, my
> guess is the 5R is just fine.
>
> Ed Lipchus
> KC1DBG
>
> On Thursday, April 30, 2020, 8:51:47 PM EDT, Steven Schultz <
> steven.schultz.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I misplaced my record of Jim Evans call and email.
>
> Want to discuss with him the inexpensive 2M/70CM handheld radios.
>
> Did some checking but offerings are vast.
>
> Steve
> AC1EX
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