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Okay, I've renewed my FCC license and upgraded to General (testing for Extra in January) and bought a BTech UV-50X2, second generation, which I have installed in my truck, and set up as moveable to a home base station as well. I've also got my GMRS license. My big question next is what 2M and 70CM frequencies should I program into the radio and what repeaters?
I've installed Chirp to make programming easy.
So, what do you recommend for 2M and 70CM? I figure the national calling frequencies are obvious, but what else? I've looked at the local 2M frequency plan but that is 20+ and I don't see one for 70CM. Anyway, well, that's a lot.
And for Repeaters, I'm not even sure where to begin. I live in Reno, travel locally of course, but where I anticipate the radio being needed for off-roading is pretty much all of northern Nevada and nearby California. The problem is that using the RepeaterBook, filtering for my location and out a couple hundred miles, I get 100+ repeaters. Again, that's a lot.
What's a practical starting point?
THANKS!!!
I've installed Chirp to make programming easy.
So, what do you recommend for 2M and 70CM? I figure the national calling frequencies are obvious, but what else? I've looked at the local 2M frequency plan but that is 20+ and I don't see one for 70CM. Anyway, well, that's a lot.
And for Repeaters, I'm not even sure where to begin. I live in Reno, travel locally of course, but where I anticipate the radio being needed for off-roading is pretty much all of northern Nevada and nearby California. The problem is that using the RepeaterBook, filtering for my location and out a couple hundred miles, I get 100+ repeaters. Again, that's a lot.
What's a practical starting point?
THANKS!!!