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.

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.

Are you ready to communicate if phones stop working? Do you have HAM radio gear? Is that gear adaptable for use in base operations and mobile ops?