Seeking Basic but Decent Handheld Recs - Be specific

Dilldog said:
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The above is very important because talking about Baofeng and Rugged Radios, transmit at a 25kHz which may not sound like a lot, but is way outside the tolerance for GMRS
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To get around that you can switch to narrow band, which makes your band width 12.5mhz. You know just to throw some fuel on the fire, lol.
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If the radio is capable of being put into narrow bandwidth. A lot of those cheap radios can’t select between narrow and wide
 
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M Rose said:
If the radio is capable of being put into narrow bandwidth. A lot of those cheap radios can’t select between narrow and wide
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I thought the UV5R could go narrow, oh well my only experience with Boafeng was an older UV5R that TX/RX from 137-155 and 430-500 and was able to select narrow or wide band. Thing was illegal as all hell, and utterly unimpressive, lol.
 
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Dilldog said:
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If the radio is capable of being put into narrow bandwidth. A lot of those cheap radios can’t select between narrow and wide
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I thought the UV5R could go narrow, oh well my only experience with Boafeng was an older UV5R that TX/RX from 137-155 and 430-500 and was able to select narrow or wide band. Thing was illegal as all hell, and utterly unimpressive, lol.
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The UV5R can do both wide and narrow afaik.
 
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M Rose said:
If the radio is capable of being put into narrow bandwidth. A lot of those cheap radios can’t select between narrow and wide
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Yep, Midland and Rugged Radios...even if you can program using a computer, not very useful when you're offroad.
 
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Exactly… even if you carry both a laptop and programming cable it’s still not easy to do while driving.
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For GMRS the Wouxun KG-935G handheld and Wouxun KG-1000G mobile radio are as capable and flexible as they come. Weeks long waiting list, sooo worth it.
 
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