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Ham radio! It's relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.
What do you think about the baofeng radios with ham? Pretty good to start out with?
They are fine for starting out with, but you'll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.
What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?
Most activity, I've seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there's a lemmy bug that's not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.
These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573
Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.
They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.
yup
There's also !amateur_radio@lemmy.radio which is reasonably active.