alt Hacker NewsThose cheap baofeng's are illegal to use where I live on most of the spectrum they can operate on. Illegal to press the talk button anyway.
So maybe the 1w is also a regulatory issue.
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asdff • yesterday at 7:39 AM
How does the FCC enforce this sort of thing? Are they listening in to certain frequencies nationally with the ability to triangulate a handheld down to actually identifying someone?
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In the US all transmitting at 1W with these radios is contrary to regulations.
That said, no one is going to stop you from squatting on 146.580 MHz for example, a frequency commonly used by outdoors folks, rules notwithstanding.