Best Budget Radios for Prepping & Survivalists

Radios are one of the most important items for any prepper, outdoor enthusiast, hiker or todays minuteman. It seems there's a heightened likelihood of civil war, civil unrest or political unrest and radios could save your life!
The baofeng is by far the most popular radio on the market. Here I'll show you my setup, how I have these radios programmed and you'll even see the amazing ranges I get.
I use radios daily, for hiking, fishing, camping and off-roading. I always use a push to talk while driving, and while training at the range or with other range enthusiasts. I also own a boat shop so having radios programmed with VHF allow my customers to contact me while they are out on the water.
Radios can be a lifesaving tool so there for you need to get familiar with what your radios can do. And that my friends comes from practice. Also downloading CHIRP is not a bad idea. Its free! There are other great KZbin channels out there like ‪@TheNotaRubicon‬ you can watch to se how to get these radios up and running. This video is more of your introduction, and a tool to find the gear I use. Links below! Please Subscribe!
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UV5R- www.amazon.com...
ABBREE SMA-Female Ham Radio Antenna VHF/UHF
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Baofeng AR-15210W High Power Ham Radio Portable Tactical Two Way Radio Long Range Walkie Talkie 12000mAh Battery Full Kits (Green)
Programming Cable
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PTT and Y connector for Sordin Supreme
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HOWARD LIGHT MIC AND PTT
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[@GraveyardJack]

Good stuff.

[@UniversitySecurity]

GRMS is a license that costs $35 dollars. Tech license for HAMs isn’t much, $25, lasts ten years I believe. People are adults. They can decide what risks they want to take on. Use extreme caution with emergency services frequencies, they do prosecute. They are also one of last to go down in a grid down scenario. They have hot hook ups for diesel and stand by ready reserve tanks to keep the public safety repeaters online / powered. It’s local high priority assets…I will note a HAM license does not give access to use it either.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

They do prosecute if you’re using those frequencies for anything other than emergency uses. Ham licenses are completely stupid and they are only for ham operators to feel better about themselves.

[@UniversitySecurity]

@@The_Outdoorsman Yes and no. You can cause a lot of havoc / interference with the same equipment that Extra Class privileges have…Knowing how to use it, forcing them to learn or self regulating the debate will always be there and you of course are entitled to your opinion. Licensing isn’t going anywhere and we have see what happens when people go crazy. I know what unregulated illegal supped up CB rigs do… Operating on Simplex is common, unlikely to get complaints although possible, it’s done on pretty much every milsim / paintball field with the AR152 and UV5R. It’s done all the time with Ukrainian and Russian forces as well in real world tactical situations. Hard to suppress although easily intercepted. It’s likely Broad spectrum jammers are utilized by both sides.

[@larrygibson9273]

​@The_Outdoorsman I treat the HAM license as a admission slip to learn radios. I have met with my local HAM club, and learned a lot from them, have done POTA, and from Texas with their big base radios they are able to reach Greece. Make friends with your HAM clubs, some of them are like minded, and have great radio equipment

[@LiveFree-pk8ej]

You had me right up until the Rodger beep comment.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

😂😂. I mean why not take the opportunity to mess with newbies. I really appreciate you watching the video

[@LiveFree-pk8ej]

@@The_Outdoorsman I must confess I am a ham. I enjoyed your video.

[@nkstrucking]

First, if nobody stained you for your efforts yet, thanks for caring. Personally I'm just getting into things, I've been a viewer of content like this for a while now, but ive just started to do my own research. I don't have any questions for you yet, see you in the next video.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

I truly appreciate you watching the video! I’m sure I’ll be posting lots of videos that you’ll like. Also feel free to ask for a specific video, on my other pages I often make videos for subscribers who have specific questions not covered in my videos.

[@markjarrett90]

I also have the AR152 which is the military version of the Harris PRC152 Falcon III that the military uses. I can do digital over analog radios just like the military. The best thing is it at less than 1/4 of the cost of the Falcon III. Great job!

[@The_Outdoorsman]

I also own two falcon 3’s. And they are amazing. I really appreciate you watching the video!! And thank you for the nice words!

[@user-sq8xt9gk7u]

When this radio was released most people (hams) did not like it, but I think the battery life alone makes it worth, even if it is a simple "UV 5R" hardware. Getting a radio with spare batteries probably cost more.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Agreed

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

I disliked the first one I acquired so much that I purchased a second one...

[@VidJunkie63]

Thanks for sharing. Happy to become subscriber 280. ;)

[@The_Outdoorsman]

That means a lot to me!! Thank you.

[@thorkinsey4793]

Where I live all the agencies went to 800mhz encrypted trunk radios. I don't believe I can get even a scanner that would pick up their frequency. Wish I could would love to have one.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

There’s lots of scanners out there that will pick up digital and trunked. They are a little pricy. Check out @notarubicon he’s got great videos on radios.

[@thorkinsey4793]

@@The_Outdoorsman I will watch that video. Thank you. The last time I looked at one that would pick up the frequencies it was like $800 .

[@willacewallace5905]

Check out the Baofeng UV25. Bees knees of Baofeng.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Just bought one! Thank you! Bud, if you haven’t already would you subscribe to the channel?

[@willacewallace5905]

@@The_Outdoorsman Done!

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Thank you brother!!

[@imtall31]

Rutland? KZbin must know i was just visiting family in Burlington😂

[@The_Outdoorsman]

I did. In fact I made the video just for you!!! Ps, love your profile pic!

[@imtall31]

@@The_Outdoorsman knew it

[@steveburg5273]

Like and subscribe for the intro comments alone. The actual logical content was just icing on the cake.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Thank you Steve!!

[@ohenekojo2561]

All the gear. No idea.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Care to elaborate?

[@robthom3837]

Comment

[@echo1er]

Gear: Btech pro GMRS . Has GPS, texting, and dtmf. Hunting application. GPS is good to see wherever team members are at in the party. Texting is awesome. When you really want to be silent and have no service, you can send text msg ( no pictures ). I do pair it sometimes with sr112 to have a simplex repeater (message storage device) for longer reaech or rely message.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Agreed. We use lora so always have comms.

[@echo1er]

@@The_Outdoorsman Lora with a drone "send it" LOS extended

[@asian1038]

So i am coming from an army background. I just dont know where to start. Like you I want to start getting my guys into a comms network. BUT I just dont know how. Like Programming, radio freq, or "encryption"

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Well I’m certainly not an expert. I will say radios that will handle encrypted comms are about 25,000 each with a network. So stick with the radios I have here and just tinker around with stuff. That’s all I did, mucked with it till I figured it out.

[@TheCaselots]

You ever try using AndFLmsg and transmit digital with your AR152? I'm also in Maine and I have been playing around with mine alot lately so me and my buddy can have a good off grid comms plan

[@The_Outdoorsman]

I have all apple devices, so I use Rattlegram and although the app looks stupid I think it works a lot better than andflmsg! Also thanks for watching the video!!

[@manuelquelle9915]

Is a UV-5R good for SHTF in a place like NYC?

[@The_Outdoorsman]

For quick transmissions yes. But you need to learn how to program the radio to lessen the chance of someone hearing you or jamming/hot mic’ing you

[@manuelquelle9915]

@@The_Outdoorsman Would you say getting the technician license would help with learning that? Or is there somewhere online I can find a guide that would show me step by step how to do all of it from home?

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Ham licenses are in my opinion very stupid. You just need to learn. It’s not hard, I didn’t know anything about programming radios, I learned by trial and error. That’s what I’ll suggest to to you. You’ll be better off!!

[@manuelquelle9915]

@@The_Outdoorsman Any guides? Online resources or study guides you can point me to? Like pretend I don’t know shit about a HAM radio 😂

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Brother, when I first got into this I didn’t know shit either 😂. I wish there was a guide i could show you, but I didn’t use one, I literally just figured it out. You can too. I will say that CHIRP is the program you want to get. It’s free. And it will allow you to program the radio from your computer.

[@brendanmassey9356]

"I have this radio programmed to transmit and receive on all my local police and fire frequencies" (at 1:30) . No, you don't. You can't transmit on police frequencies.

[@The_Outdoorsman]

Actually I can. And have on several occasions.

[@BoneTime]

Coms for tactical cosplay gamer boys --- just call it AR something or other

[@The_Outdoorsman]

How many falcons do you own? I have three. Maybe I should do a video about a 5,000$ radio which I’m sure you could afford. Again thanks for both your comments, and helping the channel.