You’ve seen my previous post about My Foray into Budget Ham Radio, in which I extoll the virtues of the awesome BaoFeng UV-5R Plus. I must be honest with our readers, there was a dual band, hand held, budget ham radio before the BaoFeng. It was the TYT TH-UVF1 and it’s a story worth telling.

When we look over our survival gear, it seems to be a ton of stuff. You need to have multiple use gear. This is why your handheld radio should be able to take the place of multiple radios. You need a multi-use radio, like the BaoFeng UV5R and we’ll show you how to add all the important channels fast.

Handheld HAM radios are great since they are small and portable, but you may find yourself needing to extend their range. A BaoFeng Antenna upgrade might be exactly what you need.

If you want to do more than simplex communications over short distances, then you’ll need to use a repeater. In this post we’ll show you some simple Keypad Programming the BaoFeng UV-5R.

There are so many unanswered questions for the new HAM licensee. in HAM Radio 101 - Intro To Repeaters: We’ll start to answer these questions to make HAM simple.