What Happens If You Use A Baofeng UV-5R Without An FCC Ham License? Does A Baofeng Need A License?

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In this video I explain if you need an FCC ham radio license or amateur radio license to use a Baofeng UV-5R. The UV5R is a ham radio, and according to the FCC rules you need an amateur radio aka ham radio license to use a Baofeng, or any other ham radio.
But what will happen if you use a UV-5R or other ham radio with no FCC license? Watch the video for the exciting and controversial truth.
Minor note: I accidentally picked up my UV-5R GMRS version radio (it looks exactly like the UV5R ham radio) to use while filming this video, so because I have a GMRS license, I am fully authorized and permitted to transmit on this particular Baofeng "UV-5R GMRS" radio. So, no FCC laws, guidelines or regulations were violated to make this video.
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@kahilkitley9855 2 месяца назад

Stupid

@TheNotaRubicon 2 месяца назад

I'm sure that with all the details and data to back up your very convincing argument, nobody could possibly laugh at you.

@Toddstang68 2 месяца назад

Sad Ham is Sad

@sanction7627 Месяц назад

I guess you kindof are....

@jwm6314 Месяц назад

You played baseball and ran track in high school and it was the peak of your life.

@TheRealRenn Месяц назад

Sad Ham just figured out how to join the RU-vids two years ago (Joined Jul 19, 2022)

@TheSaint135 5 месяцев назад

I can finally sleep peacefully knowing that when my 6 year old daughter has a nightmare, and uses her radio to call me into her room, I will not go to prison nor have my child taken from me. Thank you RU-vid dude.

@kevinroberts781 5 месяцев назад

What?!?!?! You little....... We coming!

@alex-vj2wm 5 месяцев назад

I live in britain i hope i dont end up in prison the hundreds of times ive pressed that button

@BlackoutPatriot 5 месяцев назад

@@alex-vj2wmjust misgender someone or say something on social media that hurts someone feelings . Theyll kick your door in for that 😂

@randyduncan795 5 месяцев назад

At six years old a nightmare is a legit reason for her to declare an emergency and call you on the radio. But Big Brother might have to check your social media history to make a custody call. ThoughtCrime is punishable.

@maddrifter2921 2 месяца назад

FCC dimont monitor the hams anymore Only those dumd azz ham license ooerators act like agents .

@toddposton869 4 месяца назад

This guy is such a smartass. He has just won himself another subscriber.

@lawrencespicher1769 2 месяца назад

“Smartass” is usually an insult BTW

@sidthetech7623 9 дней назад

@@lawrencespicher1769 Thanks so much for that clarification. I'm glad you caught that and made that aware to us. I was just about to use it incorrectly.

@Wsmith247 5 месяцев назад

When I push the big button on the side of my UV-5R without a license, people talk to me in my jeep.

@HOTRODMONZA 5 месяцев назад

Thats a JEEP THING

@plaid13 5 месяцев назад

Sounds made up. I heard when you push that button without a license the men in black show up and put tracking units in your brain so they always know where you are and what you are saying.

@melissasmess2773 5 месяцев назад

😅

@Mr.Angrypants 3 месяца назад

What exactly is it?

@YouTubeCensorsFreeSpeech 2 месяца назад

That's because you are an official member of the EISFSeeSeas and are awaiting shipment of your EISFSeeSeasMSB (Member Security Badge)

@thetravi1348 5 месяцев назад

I just made my first contact on a GMRS repeater 25 miles from my home!! I’m new to GMRS and have only been into radios for the past 4.5 months. Randy, you taught me how to set tones and program on chirp. I’m a week into having my license so needless to say I’m pretty stoked about making my first contact. Thank god you make entertainment that revolves around knowledge!!

@eem3iii 5 месяцев назад

👍Just got my GMRS and started using radios again after watching his videos. Former CB user from 1970s. Father was radio operator in Korean War

@JayTX. 5 месяцев назад

@@eem3iii yep 4th generation truck driver, cb was awesome growing up but not the same crowd it used to be sadly out there , remember my dad and grandpa's home rigs growing up were insane

@GAJake 5 месяцев назад

Any advice? I just got my GMRS license but have not bought a radio yet. I'm considering the new GMRS baofeng (I think it's the UV-5G) but I'm still confused because I thought the UV-5R was a ham that had GMRS capability but that even if I only use it for GMRS I need a ham license? I wanted to have something that could do both in case of an emergency or incase I eventually get a ham liscence.

@KaL_Tero_RET 5 месяцев назад

@@GAJakeKG-805G is the best radio for a GMRS beginner

@matthewhopkins7042 5 месяцев назад

Make sure you have your roger beep activated, it'll extend your signal range significantly more fars.

@thomasmaughan4798 5 месяцев назад

"What Happens If You Use A Baofeng UV-5R Without An FCC Ham License?" The radio has no knowledge of your license status. It will work.

@RandellReeder 5 месяцев назад

I started off with GMRS and loved radio so much I memorized all the correct answers from a phone app to the ham tests and got my tech and general in one swipe back in May 2022. Memorized and the answers to the "EXTRA" portion and got that in Nov 2022. I have learned so much about the Baofeng UV-5R which springboard me into this wonderful radioactive hobby. Thanks Randy for the wonderful sessions, reviews, tutorials, products, t-shirts, pencil pointers, and EIS influence with the entire GMRS and amateur radio community.

@TheWatchMker 5 месяцев назад

What app?

@ke8mattj 5 месяцев назад

That's pretty much what 99% of hams do now-a-days. It's what I did for all three tickets also.

@ke8mattj 5 месяцев назад

@@TheWatchMker I used a series of android apps called HamRadioExam. It has an app for each test, e.g. for Technician, it's name is Technician - HamRadioExam. Memorize the questions for each section, then take practice tests until you feel comfortable, then go take the actual test.

@KaL_Tero_RET 5 месяцев назад

What's the phone app? I could use some help getting my Extra

@islandupcyclery3432 5 месяцев назад

Do you have the app name?

@TheDoug625 5 месяцев назад

I talk to NOAA weather all the time but they always ignore me and just keep repeating the same thing.

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

You can't stop the weather.

@fredhinck9685 5 месяцев назад

When I was a youngster we had the time lady on the phone, she never answered back. How rude!

@SpyroGyroplane 5 месяцев назад

And here I thought I was the only one NOAA was ignoring. I'M NOT ALONE!!!!

@javabeanz8549 5 месяцев назад

@@fredhinck9685was that when you called POP CORN? I was in an area with a small telco, we had to call CORN POP

@billy56081 5 месяцев назад

Make up the weather, you will probably be just as accurate.

@A-Negative 5 месяцев назад

I have tried to push it several times but all I hear is an air raid siren go off, I smell smoked pork and then shortly after see black helicopters circling.

@dirtydogvideo 5 месяцев назад

lol

@thatcarguydom266 3 месяца назад

😂😂😂

@brutallyhonest8854 2 месяца назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@sassed12many 5 месяцев назад

I've only been an unlicensed HAM operator for 16 years. Many learns have occurred

@pug2451 3 месяца назад

When you talk to people do you just talk or use a fake call sign or something?

@Texasmilitarydepartmentvid9654 2 месяца назад

My call sign is Roger Beep

@gator-freighterlpd-1334 5 месяцев назад

I have 4 of these radios, mainly for off road, around the property, & emergencies when traveling in case of cell problems. 1 has messed up buttons, so I use mainly as a portable scanner, the other I set up for GMRS. I set up the GMRS ones to use split frequency & DCS tones on a couple of channels to avoid interference & a little more privacy. Been messing around with radios since the 80's, never been in trouble yet, and my friends and I used to do some crazy Sh!t.

@javabeanz8549 5 месяцев назад

the tones don't block what you transmit, they only break squelch on the receiving radio. But if you just have a pair of radios you could program them for duplex and just set one opposite the other.

@DarkShadowCustoms 5 месяцев назад

I know people who have been using the Baofengs for 5 years or more while playing paintball or airsoft and they have never received anything kind of letter from the FCC asking them to stop. The only way the FCC can enforce their rules is to have someone on site because even if they get enough complaints the offenders will be gone by the time someone goes to investigate. Even if they talk to the field owner they won't be able to enforce anything since the field owner won't know what types of radios were being used and what frequencies were being used. I also know a little bit about the "some people" that you refer to in the video. At my old job there was a guy who recently got his ham license. He kept insisting that I get my license because he knew I was using the UV-5R for paintball and I would get a $250k fine and have my radios confiscated for using them without a license. I just blew him off every time and he eventually left me alone. I eventually did get my ham license, but not because of any threat of action by the FCC. I got it because I had been monitoring one of the local repeaters for about 6 months or so and one day they had a sever weather net when a nasty storm came through. Listening to the severe weather net made me make the decision to wait until the storm passed and go into work at the regular start time instead of going in early like I was thinking about doing that night.

@themoe6701 5 месяцев назад

Retired cop...in the 90s a guy with a super powerful base station (no radio license too) was jamming a trucker trying to warn he had lost his brakes coming out of the mountains. I identified the guy and called the fcc. They went to his house and told him to knock it off. I dont think anybody needs to worry

@drjones762 Месяц назад

Why TF would anyone do that?!? Like; he knew the truck had lost his brakes and was purposely trying to jam him so that he would crash / cause an accident, or did he not know what was happening with the truck?

@BrooklinFunkProject 9 дней назад

This never happened.

@yeabutwecouldbefreer 5 месяцев назад

❤I use my UV5-R with the roger beep and an unauthorized aftermarket belt clip too. No wardriving FCCs or Sadhams have ever caught me rodger beeping the sound of freedom in the comfort of my own home.

@1alien2 5 месяцев назад

*clutches pearls*

@tommyj1811 5 месяцев назад

An aftermarket belt clip too? Simply out of control, lol

@stevenwilkinson8373 5 месяцев назад

YOU REBELLIOUS FAR SEEKER!! (Roger beep)

@yeabutwecouldbefreer 5 месяцев назад

@@dirtydogvideo I pretended to be sad just in case the resident narcissist self important hero radiomen caught me.

@cb2000a 5 месяцев назад

The belt clip will get you prison.

@Sophistry0001 5 месяцев назад

I've only been an unlicensed ham operator for around 5 years. I tried to look for myself about what it takes to get the FCC on your back, and you'd have to be pretty belligerent. Run a signal jammer that prevent EMS from communicating or a pirate radio station that gets people to complain. Even then, they're gonna ask you nicely to stop a few times before anything escalates.

@SilverSpoon_ 5 месяцев назад

yes, it's still good to have the VHF/UHF emergency and SOS frequencies saved in case you have no mobile to contact anyone while hiking and being in an accident or need someone. but never interfere with them. In fact there's a few available here in europe, only for emergencies. but never transmit over the airband or interfere with others, that's the same rules here with the ARCOM/ANFR, they do care about regulation, not interference, however i should write in a complaint about a FM transmitter that vomits harmonics everywhere right on top of my hill, it's an horror, i can't DX.

@billy56081 5 месяцев назад

What are those frequencies?@@SilverSpoon_

@NickFrom1228 5 месяцев назад

Why not just take the tests? They are really easy and it would keep people off your back.

@fastfed 5 месяцев назад

@@NickFrom1228 Because government thats why, make it free and sure. F&*(&* them and their overreach on silly stuff

@user-ir1xk8yp4r 5 месяцев назад

@NickFrom1228 I don't need a permission slip from the government.

@michaelandreas2177 5 месяцев назад

1934 was over 150 years ago? How time flies.

@craigdavidson2977 5 месяцев назад

Yes it does go by fast. Seems like only 89 years.

@seosaidh 5 месяцев назад

lol… I was wondering if my maths were really that bad…

@engrishsheep 3 месяца назад

Well, the EIS wrote the script I guess...

@davidlacziko1516 2 месяца назад

I was just thinking the same...

@PhillyPyroKev Месяц назад

Hahaha I scratched my head after that one and wondered if this dude is even to be listened or accepted as good info after that one. 😂

@mwolrich 5 месяцев назад

love how you’ve redecorated the studio 😂 The banana taped to the U.S. flag is especially timely, depicting our new “ Banana Republic” status

@SolarContainers 3 месяца назад

I was sure i was the only one that made that connection, so glad im not the only one 😂

@TheParawakening 3 месяца назад

LOL! I was going to say the same thing! Love it!

@jr.6199 2 месяца назад

You really dont know what a banana republic is, do you...

@AmericanConstellation 5 месяцев назад

I really think that when you get your license, the government now knows where to go when they want to shut us up as a ham radio operator.

@RKDriver 4 месяца назад

Kind'a like a firearm registration?

@mboettcher16 3 месяца назад

It’s all about control

@pug2451 3 месяца назад

Maybe I shouldn’t have got that license then…

@thetravi1348 3 месяца назад

Or your driver’s license, cell phone, firearm, job, school, social media,………

@jr.6199 2 месяца назад

Yeah, its almost like we're in a society, a community... we want schools, hospitals, bridges, gas stations, roads, food and water distribution but without collaboration and taxation. "I'm" most important, not "us". We dont want to register anything but we complain of others being here unregistered... think about the narcissism and cognitive dissonance that makes this thinking sound rational to us. Control or Overlords my a$$, it is us we hate. Try to build this infrastructure yourself, see what you get... Heck try to build anything without any of the above, what do you get, nothing. These divisive statements are misplaced. If you want to make a beef, look into the uber wealthy who hord most of the wealth for themselves by buying legislators and controlling wealth, more tax breaks for the rich, anybody? Dont get distracted by fake strong men shouting divisive quips, they are wrong.

@bendeleted9155 5 месяцев назад

Suffering the wrath of having your roger beep turned on seems more sure and swift than any government consequences.

@MsRandiCook 5 месяцев назад

Love your shirt! Merry Christmas my Radio King!

@chrisjohnston1989 5 месяцев назад

I don’t care if you get your ham ticket or not. Keep producing these videos! You are good at this

@briggsy3155 3 месяца назад

Agreed 👍

@user-tv9ds9sg6p Месяц назад

Don't worry, he never will. This guy literally hates everything about the government.

@MrStracker 5 месяцев назад

Still - very little can compare to that first time you "get the radio to listen only" and, you know, act real sneaky and push that little button. I've been on the run from the law since. So worth it.

@pluto9000 5 месяцев назад

I have had mine for a month now and still haven't pushed the button. 😂

@RustyZipper 5 месяцев назад

I just make up random call signs 🤫 73’s - EVRT3T it is However, extremely important to read them out in military phonetics to “fit in”

@joshua511 5 месяцев назад

@@RustyZipper This is a great idea. We should pick 1 call sign and have EVERYONE use it.

@paherbst524 5 месяцев назад

Always appreciate your tv backgrounds

@icurip 4 месяца назад

Hahahaha, ok you got my subscription on this one. I've had my UV-5R for a few years and use it mostly as a scanner but do have one FRS frequency programmed in it to keep in touch with another friend up here in the mountains. I use CHIRP to block the transmitting on the police frequencies (the kids love the little radio) but wont pay anything to the FCC just to talk to a friend. I'm still new to ham radios and still learning about this one. Thanks for your informative videos, I've learned a lot about this UV-5R watching them. I might even hold it up and pet it some day.

@gogeorge7 5 месяцев назад

He is not a ham BUT I got my Extra Class License just by watching all his videos. No other study was required. 👍 KK3R Houston

@GunzOrDie 5 месяцев назад

Fun fact, the FCC callsign database is available online. Pretty easy to find a callsign to use there 😂

@scroopynooperz9051 5 месяцев назад

Or just make one up on the spot to confuse everyone?

@brassmanbart5076 5 месяцев назад

Probably more common than we imagine!

@Sophistry0001 5 месяцев назад

@@scroopynooperz9051 How many people are hearing a callsign used and running off to search it on the database to make sure it's legit, as long as you follow the correct format? You can just make it up.

@chrissewell1608 5 месяцев назад

Thank you... Mr. Pappagorgio!

@javabeanz8549 5 месяцев назад

@@scroopynooperz9051do you think I could get away with ABC123? Or did the Jacksons already take that many years ago?

@kiachris76712 5 месяцев назад

If the ATF can not make law by imposing rules(SupremeCourtRuling), neither can the FCC.

@43wagonwheel 5 месяцев назад

Hmmm, you can get arrested for breaking an ATF rule. If they cannot make law, then why can you be arrested for a rule break?

@Dreddip 5 месяцев назад

@@43wagonwheel what does getting arrested have anything to do with anything? Last I head, an arrest isn't a conviction.

@craigdavidson2977 5 месяцев назад

The FCC was indeed empowered to make rules by Congress in the Communications Act of 1934. Don't know what Congress has empowered the ATF to do. Don't really care.

@jeffjames1746 5 месяцев назад

@craigdavidson2977 those rules can not Constitutionally have the power of law. The Constitution only gives Congress the authority to make law, and it does not grant them the power to delegate that authority. That is why some rules of the ATF and EPA have been overturned by the Supreme Court lately. It's just a matter of time before someone with enough money to pursue a case against the FCC brings about similar results. The Constitution trumps US Code all day, every day. Period.

@beerdedwanderer 5 месяцев назад

@jeffjames1746 does it matter if they have the power of law when they can come kill you, imprison you, and/or drag you through court bankrupting you?

@ronjones1414 5 месяцев назад

I'm just saying, the humor value of you getting a recommendation for this is almost worth it.

@folsomtransport 5 месяцев назад

What a great informative , educational video ! I must now search for one of these bandit radios😊

@raymondj8768 5 месяцев назад

200,000 people just keyed their mikes with the Rodger beep !

@cb2000a 5 месяцев назад

That's a big ten four!

@Anon-Joe 5 месяцев назад

I am a federal employee who can not get a radio license because i have a felony conviction. (That makes sense, right?). My felony was more than 20 years ago, and my license approval has been pending for quite some time. I finally got my wife a call sign, and I spray spurious RF electricitys over many frequency bands with my baofeng uv-5r and btech 40w amp. GMRS, MURS, FRS, and I plan on even more. Oh, and I take longer breaks and lunches than I'm supposed to, but it's good enough for government work.

@NomadGringo 5 месяцев назад

😂

@spresc2180 5 месяцев назад

Atta boy! 😂

@area5097 5 месяцев назад

I got the same issue. I'm more interested in the experiment end of the radios than the actually talking to those I don't know part, but I'm not moral enough to legally press to talk. Hauling 45k lb of flammable liquid in tractor trailers is fine, talking to strangers is verboten. Figure that one......

@skullcollectorSKIN 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely love your vids man. Thank you !!!

@Sinful_Breeze 4 месяца назад

That is some satisfying sound coming from that noise hole. Great job.

@brassmanbart5076 5 месяцев назад

I think it might be ok to push the button as long as the Roger beep is turned on.

@patthesoundguy 5 месяцев назад

I've pushed the button on my UV5R a ton... I use it on the repeater on the university campus I work for, it's a business license frequency, so it's perfectly legal where I live in Canada to use it for that purpose. 😎

@Slotty_Botfast 5 месяцев назад

Yet I cannot use GMRS channel 16 in my area in Washington. Thanks Canada, LOL.

@josephhacker6508 5 месяцев назад

buTt itS nOT tYpE certIFiEd ☹️☹️☹️

@N2YTA 5 месяцев назад

@@Slotty_Botfast are you saying that you're not willing to violate the rule about Line A but you’re ok with disregarding other FCC regulations?

@joshua511 5 месяцев назад

It may be legal, but I still reported you to AARL.

@JohnCNewJr 5 месяцев назад

Love your sarcasm. And good info. Thanks.

@johnnyringo765 5 месяцев назад

I love your videos. great content. Have a great new year🎉👍

@ryangassxx 5 месяцев назад

Hams cling to “licensure” so that they can posture as something. Just anything, aside from a social defective.. So when you diminish the prestige of being a “Licensed Ham Radio Operator”, you’re sort of chipping away at the only thing that they hang their hat on as “something interesting about them as a person”. A ham ticket is a fishing license. I could pass a tech exam on any given afternoon.. And so could most people with 25 minutes warning an a pamphlet to read. But I don’t, mainly because I’m not interested in volunteering myself for another government registry, of which anyone can query and gain my personal information 🤷🏻‍♂️. The radio hobby is available to me either way.

@mikevandebunt811 5 месяцев назад

Am I the only one who reads the comments on a NOTARUBICON video before watching the video? I mean, the videos are great, but the comments are the best part! 😊😊

@NeedleBender785 5 месяцев назад

Love your videos man!. As some that puts the fire into a wire on a regular basis.😎

@TimmyMoza 5 месяцев назад

Im no expert but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night… I think this channel is top shelf.

@herrent 5 месяцев назад

Interestingly enough after following a hunch, I went to MacArthur Park downtown Los Angeles. There for over two decades illegal aliens have been able to get Social Security cards and drivers license, etc. And sure enough wouldnt you know it, you can also get a ham license. Cheaper, and no test.

@josebonilla5800 5 месяцев назад

Nice!

@stevenw4334 5 месяцев назад

No such thing have be listed in the database so um no there is no faking it

@HOTRODMONZA 5 месяцев назад

Can you send me one?

@hazcat640 5 месяцев назад

But, did you get cake?

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

I wonder why all the call signs are BR549.

@craigdavidson2977 5 месяцев назад

It would have been a hoot if Josh had poked his head in at the last moment and said because he is a ham and was in the room that the transmissions were actually legal under FCC ham radio third party rules which allow non hams to push the button.

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure some buttons were pushed.

@chrissewell1608 5 месяцев назад

Randy, does love pushing some buttons! 😅

@kimberlybarton2588 5 месяцев назад

🤭 I am subscribing because crack me up as much as fo for your informative videos. Thank you!

@aidanbrennan7389 5 месяцев назад

I have learned from this channel. However its easy for the host to stir things up, and the RU-vid algorithm loves noice. Great formula for the provocateur. Great work greetings from Dublin.

@brassmanbart5076 5 месяцев назад

These radios are so darned convenient, it would be a shame not to use them, and I do like the Roger beep. Thanks for another great video; keep 'em coming!

@Electro489 5 месяцев назад

You Sir are wonderful! Nuff said.👍

@TheNotaRubicon 5 месяцев назад

Thank you kindly sir!

@mgas1237 5 месяцев назад

Careful Randy. You don't want to get in trouble assuming that person/individual/poster/internet-user is OK identifying with the gender you used.

@dreamtobeapolyglot8444 4 месяца назад

Bro, I was having many sleepless nights and nightmares before seeing this video. Now I think I may be able to sleep peacefully. Thank you

@jaredyoung7514 Месяц назад

I love everything about you! I love your attitude.

@apryason 5 месяцев назад

I still have my 1967 ARRL handbook, full of beautiful photos of hand-built tube-type amateur gear. Back then one really had to know how this stuff worked. Nowadays the ham can buy gear with features not dreamed about in 1967. For less than $40 one can find a Nano-VNA, then find a video on RU-vid to learn how to operate it to tune an antenna. You don't need to join a club and take a multiple-guess test in order to operate a radio. I have been doing the 11 meter thing since the 1970s, and have worked as a broadcast engineer, but have never had the desire to join a club or take a test with somebody watching. Creepy.

@williammelear2906 3 месяца назад

Sorry, i already pushed it, and within minutes, i saw black helicopters flying over my house. FJB

@mariofilippi3539 5 месяцев назад

I like your sarcasm, hihi. Tnx OM and 73's.

@thatbeardedguy87 5 месяцев назад

I have a the same radio that sits on a charger as a weather radio. But out of curiosity.. do you spend much time talking to people on those radios? Or do you just collect them on shelves? Just wondering

@TheNotaRubicon 5 месяцев назад

I use my radios when I go off-roading with my friends and when I lead large groups of (100+) vehicles in off-road events.

@thatbeardedguy87 5 месяцев назад

@@TheNotaRubicon that’s awesome. I got mine in hopes to have more opportunity to use it… sounds like I may have to get into off-roading now too 😂

@TheNotaRubicon 5 месяцев назад

I got videos for that too!

@billy56081 5 месяцев назад

You can even talk on the NOAA frequencies, now you can be a weatherman!

@herrent 5 месяцев назад

@@TheNotaRubicon im looking to join your next outing. When is it?

@richardcorwin1828 5 месяцев назад

Thank you!!

@almostfriday 5 месяцев назад

The engineer can turn you off. I have a icom and 4 ham baofeng type hand held. When the sh.t hits the fan. That guy will take calls from anyone that will render aid. I've never keyed my mic. I do have a gmrs paper license. Please keep putting out good videos. I've learned a lot.

@223Nebraska 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for GMRS CONTENT. I hang out on Zello usa radio ptt

@the_mad_swimbaiter455 5 месяцев назад

You are most definitely wrong Randy, something happens...a demon grows his horns or an over weight dude chokes on his moms meatloaf, i forget which...

@Private290 5 месяцев назад

You made me choke. Too funny.

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

The answer is IBS from hell. Randy can confirm.

@michaellee6489 5 месяцев назад

Leave my mom out of this, and I'll leave THIS outta your mom...

@levinushaines3248 5 месяцев назад

I pushed the button without a license. I died.

@cb2000a 5 месяцев назад

Then who is posting?

@Juice8767 5 месяцев назад

I learned what I needed to know about gmrs several videos ago but this guys sarcasm game is too good lol I can’t get enough of this roasting

@no1be4me2 5 месяцев назад

Enjoy all your videos Merry Christmas and prosperous New year to you and thank you so much for saving me all that money and not needing to get a Ham license 😊🎉😅🎉😂...

@nikesh18 5 месяцев назад

Can i ask, why do people on HAM radios just chat shit. Its just announcing their call signs, asking about the quality of the transmission and then the next person does the same. Do you think HAM operators touch themselves whilst they use the radios?

@craigdavidson2977 5 месяцев назад

Its because most hams don't have any sort of interesting life so they have nothing else to talk about.

@markmarkofkane8167 5 месяцев назад

In the 80's to about 2000, a local repeater had users that discussed interesting stuff, and I learned a lot. I was sandbagging, I just had a receiver. I couldn't afford to become a ham.

@OShackHennessy 4 месяца назад

I listened a few years ago to 3 local hams that would talk most mornings. They were all old men and all they did was complain about how cold it was that morning. I would always listen very early but after monitoring the local airwaves I decided to never get my license.

@1776_Patriot 5 месяцев назад

NotaRubicon didn't hang himself.

@TrueSighted 4 месяца назад

Oh.. I like him! 🤣Keep doing your thing man.

@thrillbilly6147 Месяц назад

Thank you sir for putting all that out there. RIP WB5LIK never forgotten

@AndrewAbraham83 5 месяцев назад

You're right of course. The FCC will likely do nothing. Partly because many amateur radio operators are taught to ignore the trolls and partly because of FCC bureaucracy. I'm guessing their enforcement works about as well as the ULS. Not very well and only occasionally.

@Wastelandman7000 5 месяцев назад

Most of our government are do nothing pencil pushers. Ditto state governments. Let me put it this way, Michigan has a state EPA. The Federal government has an EPA. Neither of them prevented Flint Michigan's water from being toxic. And last I heard it was still not safe to drink. We could fire half the government and the only people who'd notice would be the unemployment offices.

@N2YTA 5 месяцев назад

Amateur radio is supposed to be self-regulating

@yogidemis8513 5 месяцев назад

I was listening to some sad hams on my boof-wang and they were both going off for a hour or so crying, complaining and bitching up a storm about unlicensed people talking on ham radio. It was the funniest stuff I ever heard, I couldn't stop laughing at these guy's.

@johnhays8708 5 месяцев назад

Was it on 435?😂

@Bryan-Hensley 5 месяцев назад

I'm a ham operator and I cannot stand to be on there. They are cranky bitching bastards. I keyed the repeater once and they bitched for an hour about people keying repeaters.

@Terrastomper 5 месяцев назад

@@Bryan-Hensley kerchunk....... kerchunk.......... ker.....chunk........ "STOP KEYING THE REPEATER AND GIVE ME YOUR CALLSIGN.... NOW!" Heard this happen last night,

@thomasmaughan4798 5 месяцев назад

"both going off for a hour or so crying" And you followed them so you could report on how long they engaged in this behavior. Creepy!

@joshuastokes3142 4 месяца назад

Just found this channel. I like it.

@bucknakedbullfrog 3 месяца назад

I truly apologize for any negative comment I may have made over a year ago. I have come to see the light. You are awesome and I for lack of a better term am a horse's ass. Yep I know when I have done wrong and I admit it. Keep up the great job.

@barnetts9812 5 месяцев назад

Violations 😂. As per my work HR office, I'm now a walking violation again and again.

@vineyardsaker6195 5 месяцев назад

when you transmit on a HAM frequency, you do not, for obvious reasons, announce your (non-existing) call sign. Does that trigger sad HAMs to report you to the FCC or some other kind of authority? Or do the sad HAMS tell you to get off "their" frequencies?

@klausb1758 5 месяцев назад

They do in my small town... All boomers.

@RisingTidesAC 5 месяцев назад

Ask this question on radioreference. Ever single "some people" are there to answer your question.

@BrianNC81 5 месяцев назад

Unless you get on a repeater, most likely nobody will know. Most ham simplex frequencies on VHF and UHF are dead quiet.

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

I think after your 4th drunken keying up weekend over Bob's long transmission, telling the story of his families trip to Texas, the fox hunt guys will come and poop on your car hood for sure. Then they will make sure the car is upside down. Even Hoffa feared the hams. I'm sure the FBI will call them the next terror group needing to be investigated for ... well.. being boring.

@Bryan-Hensley 5 месяцев назад

They tell you to get off and some will change the tone frequency to stop you. Using a repeater that is.

@furball5553 4 месяца назад

Noway love the entier E.I.S. staff great job one and all 😊

@Desertjoe789 5 месяцев назад

I just want to thank you Randy. The ham people with there test and bullshit stories about enforcement really turned me off to radio a few years ago. And thanks to you and your truth telling I am now back into radio.

@RoamFree1866 5 месяцев назад

I am a proud "boof-wang" owner and unlicensed student of the EIS Institute! 😊

@DougPoulton 5 месяцев назад

I just wish CB operators using 500 watt linear amps and reverberated echo chambers while trying to imitate Jerry Reed would just cease and desist.

@javabeanz8549 5 месяцев назад

A big 10-4! Channel 6 anyone???

@dingdongdaddy589 5 месяцев назад

Cummon, where’s your spunk - skipland….

@SilverSpoon_ 5 месяцев назад

I get that, even here loud and clear on the ch06 I can hear their contest just to spread the wisdom message that is «HABABA BABA BAH BAH BAH!» to the world. ( I'm in France BTW) Or do something about the chinese propaganda AM stations or something!

@DougPoulton 5 месяцев назад

@@javabeanz8549 Ch 6 is very active right now here in AZ. Either there's a bunch of liars or the skip from TX, CA, NM, CO and even FL is bouncing all over the place.

@josephhacker6508 5 месяцев назад

More like 500,000w! Got down!!!

@RH03111BFOUR 5 месяцев назад

Great information thank you sir! Although Im inclined to purchase you a bottle of Visine because i didn't see you blink in entirety of the 9:14 second video. All kidding aside that was great information thank you.

@TheNotaRubicon 5 месяцев назад

Only the weak-minded blink.

@ford4life069 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the sense of humor, "if you do this..." lol. That's a load off!! Before our pd went digital, I used to listen to them while my kids were at school. I put it in my cups holder once and pushed the button by accident. I turned it off with rocks in my stomach over getting in trouble since I was listening to the pd channels. 😬 now they're digital and I can't hear them anymore so I'm hoping to find out what channel our school district uses bec hopefully they haven't gone digital yet due to expense. We'll see if I can find them. I set it to scan so hopefully while I'm sitting in the pickup line everyday, I'll pick something up. And now I won't be afraid of going to prison if I accidentally push the dang button!

@twoalpha09 5 месяцев назад

Nothing will happen and you know it. A very happy ham operator 🎉 Love your channel

@TheNotaRubicon 5 месяцев назад

Please tell that to all the sad-hams that keep telling us we'll go to jail and get a $250k fine.

@440-6Pack 5 месяцев назад

“Some People” say the FCC will take away your gravity for using a HAM without a license.

@tnewdad 5 месяцев назад

I, for one, could certainly use a few less gravities...

@josephhacker6508 5 месяцев назад

No more gravitons or graviolies for you!

@N2YTA 5 месяцев назад

Why do you capitalize the word ham? It’s not an acronym, also when talking about radio it’s not a noun.

@GAJake 5 месяцев назад

Any advice? I just got my GMRS license but have not bought a radio yet. I'm considering the new GMRS baofeng (I think it's the UV-5G) but I'm still confused because I thought the UV-5R was a ham that had GMRS capability but that even if I only use it for GMRS I need a ham license because of too high power or something? I wanted to have something that could do both in case of an emergency or incase I eventually get a ham license.

@seancooney1310 5 месяцев назад

They are the same thing. Just legal import mumbojumbo. The "standard" needs to be "jail broken" to transmit. There's a video here for that... But that would make more Sad HAM so don't do it!!😂

@wyattbronx007 Месяц назад

I never saw a guy say so much without saying anything at all. Simply amazing!

@MattLitkeRacing 5 месяцев назад

Illinois passed a law saying you have to register your HAM radios. Anyone who doesn’t register is subject to confiscation

@waynehendrix4806 5 месяцев назад

False. You only have to register semi automatic assault radios. The ones of their choosing. All the homies are sad, but clearly ready to comply. 😆

@melissasmess2773 5 месяцев назад

@@waynehendrix4806only an estimated 3% have registered their fully semi automatic assault style rifles 😂😂😂😂

@Sophistry0001 5 месяцев назад

Need to make a "come and take it" flag with a bow fang radio instead of a cannon

@Francois_Dupont 5 месяцев назад

*FALSE* Anyone who does register is subject to confiscation

@kv-2heavytank52 5 месяцев назад

confiscate deez nuts

@johnnyz.fradley2306 5 месяцев назад

I pressed the button with no license. FCC showed up at my door and I told them "oh my...the license must have gotten lost in the mail" Then I slipped the agent a $20 bill for his troubles.

@josephhacker6508 5 месяцев назад

Last hamfest, I was told I "just lost my license" after a particularly sad ham took offense to my roger beep. Luckily, the event hall had my license in the lost and found section.

@usarmyfl1 5 месяцев назад

Is it possible to talk to the Mars and moon base with the Uv-5R? Or do you need something more expensive/better?

@maxx4944 5 месяцев назад

I truly enjoy your videos and just you as a person. Haha. I got amazing help here. Hoping you can help me again. I have a UV-5R+. My son calls me at night when he needs me via the call/alarm button. It is very loud on his end. Can I disable the siren and flashing led on the uv5r?

@highlyalloyed9296 5 месяцев назад

Wait, so a lightning bolt won’t be thrown from the sky if I push the button without receiving a blessing first?

@BrianNC81 5 месяцев назад

I have an amateur radio license and GMRS and could care less how you use the radio. I'll even talk to you on a ham frequency without you having a license. Just don't be a dick.

@Sparkfly88 5 месяцев назад

Where I live is rather rural, it's hunting season, and I personally enjoy hearing all of the activity on my radio. Tons of simplex chats going on all around me. None of which I'm sure are licensed. I don't really care either way. Glad to hear people enjoying themselves other than listening to dead vhf air.

@danjohsnon8909 5 месяцев назад

I love your Bu-fawang utube channel. And the GAS meter!

@shadowcastyt 5 месяцев назад

As has been confirmed by Randy… nothing, even gone as far as using GMRS frequencies on the Baofengs heaven forbid, we do have GMRS licenses but have the Baofengs… we haven’t even gotten a letter, don’t necessarily recommend doing what we do but as has been made clear the chances your gonna piss off the FCC is slim to none

@elwoodblues5767 5 месяцев назад

Then I guess I’m in deep shit. I’m sitting here pushing the button on my little Chinese radio now and looking out the window for the fcc police expecting them to come and take me away for being a very bad boy😢

@GL500RYDER 5 месяцев назад

Hey Randy, would you please do a review on the Baofeng (Aka Boofwang) 5RM? Thanks!

@qtmesmerize 2 месяца назад

Love the shirt i just ordered a uv 5r radio for my dad and me to talk

@DeplorableBitterClinger 5 месяцев назад

I haven't watch the video yet, but I can tell you what happens. You make a lot of sad hams even sadder.

@TheDiggemOfficial 5 месяцев назад

I heard next year they will start taking your birthday away, if you/we do that...

@craigjones9723 5 месяцев назад

Love the shirt sir!

@papote385 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the video. I was going to ask if the Baofeng UV-5R can be used at 1/2 watt for the (FRS) frequency, but then I found out that it is not part 95 certified.

@jbmbryant 5 месяцев назад

I remember back in the late 70's/early 80's (in SoCal) listening on my scanner to local ham radio users. Some guy that called himself 'Trailer Tony' was continually interfering with this one repeater. Numerous complaints were filed by the owners of the repeater but to no avail. It took the owners of the repeater to triangulate his position, turn this info over to the fcc, and all the fcc did was take the guy's equipment away. That's it. He bought more equipment a a local swap meet and was back in business in no time. What a sad joke.