Militia Radio Frequencies
Interesting read, but it almost paints anyone who owns a Baofeng as a terrorist. It does do a great job of showing how lame it is to think that those radios will help in a standoff like that. If the government was going to go in, you can bet the first thing they&#x27;d do is jam those cheap radios.<p>For anyone interested in ham radio, there isn&#x27;t a better place to start. Without these cheap, not-as-good-as-something-that-costs-10x-as much radios you can get into the hobby for under $50 including your license. I&#x27;d spend a tad bit more and go for the UV-82hp and a new antenna, but $75 to get going isn&#x27;t bad. Without these I don&#x27;t think there would be many younger people getting started. In my area there is a very active repeater of normal people (many of them software guys, so maybe not all that normal) chatting about all kinds of topics and there is always someone to answer a question.<p>Passing the test isn&#x27;t bad - checkout the mobile friendly <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hamstudy.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hamstudy.org</a> (no, affiliated, just a happy user).