Anyone have one of these they never use anymore? I would like to purchase one. My group of folks are looking to go 2m and that one was recommended to me for some reason above my pay grade and knowledge base.
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I don't know anything about the 8800 specifically. But here are some mobile rig reviews that might be helpful: eHam.net...that one was recommended to me for some reason above my pay grade and knowledge base.
When my Yaesu mobile crapped out a few years ago after MANY years, I bought one of these. I haven’t had any trouble with it, as you can see it’s a knock off of the Yaesu.
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About three years. I have it on all the time in the car running APRS, but I had to rig a special patch connection for it to work.How long have you had it?
The thing has to at least work though. I tested my Baofeng side-by-side with my Yaesu. Both batteries fully charged. I hooked the better antenna to the Baofeng - a copper tubing J-Pole. The Yaesu was equipped with a whip antenna. I tested on 2 meters to my clubs repeater about 18 miles away. The Yaesu received beautifully - max signal strength shown on its meter, full quieting, very loud and clear audio. The Baofeng - nothing. It couldn't pick up anything. I manually held its squelch open to see if there was any signal at all buried in there. Nothing. On to the transmit test. Both radios set to 5 watts, antennas as described before. The Yaesu easily triggered the repeater, and I got reports that my signal was perfect. The Baofeng wouldn't even trip the repeater. I thought, "Hey, is there something wrong with my J-Pole?" So I swapped antennas between the radios. It wasn't the antenna. The Yaesu still performed perfectly. The Baofeng was still useless. A few days later I tested the Baofeng with a friend who was very close. Indeed, the Baofeng could receive and transmit. And it worked well with my friend only a few hundred feet away. So the Baofeng wasn't totally broken, it just didn't have the performance to accomplish anything useful for me. I can accept some performance loss for monetary savings. However, the Baofeng took that to the extreme ... to the point of being basically non-functional.It’s all about the price.
Dang! I'm one of the few that should be listening to the chatter between real Americans instead of propaganda spewed by monsters.Be aware that a 2m\ 440 /75cm (440/75cm same freq. Just two popular ways to identify it) are line of sight comm freq. They do not bounce and anyone over the horizon (the distance to the horizon on flat is approximately 13 miles)cannot receive your transmission without a separate repeater located between. As far as I know privately owned separate repeaters do not "chain link" transmissions. In other words you can enter a 2m repeater tower area and enter the freq and offset and it will relay any transmission to anyone in its operating area only.
On occasion, some repeaters use "echo link" or other methods to chain repeaters together, but they are few and far between. Introducing EchoLink. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/tis/info/pdf/voip.pdfBe aware that a 2m\ 440 /75cm (440/75cm same freq. Just two popular ways to identify it) are line of sight comm freq. They do not bounce and anyone over the horizon (the distance to the horizon on flat is approximately 13 miles)cannot receive your transmission without a separate repeater located between. As far as I know privately owned separate repeaters do not "chain link" transmissions. In other words you can enter a 2m repeater tower area and enter the freq and offset and it will relay any transmission to anyone in its operating area only.
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