Programming the very affordable Baofeng UV-5R (also available as Pofung UV-5R) dual band mobile radio can be quite complicated. Luckily, there is a program called CHIRP. This free
PMR446 (“Personal Mobile Radio”) is a European standard for licence free wireless communications. Radios (usually “Walkie Talkies”) following this standard are usually very affordable and easy to find.
P2000 is the Dutch paging network for emergency services like police, ambulance and fire brigade. There are many websites on which you can view the pager messages in real
Last year (2013) I read a message on my Facebook timeline saying that a (radio) balloon fox hunt was about to begin. Shortly before that, I got my radio