boyle 🇵🇸Turned on my #GMRS radio and the first convo I hear is MAGA chuds talking (yelling) about how we need to bomb the sh*t out of Iran until they open the Strait of Hormuz.
Are there any normal people on GMRS in the LA area?
Bryan King (W8DBK)When the grid goes silent, your smartphone may fail. Master the airwaves with GMRS and the new FM CB to keep your family and neighborhood secure. 📡 Real men lead with preparedness. #GMRS #EmergencyComms #PrepperTech 📻
Solarbird 
Now with brush plates on both ends of the cable channel!
(This is going to go into a closet ceiling to get cables into the attic where the antennas live.)
I dunno if I'll keep plates on both ends, it may be too fiddly on the attic side. But it should help keep air in (and blown-in insulation out of the tube) so maybe I will.
designed/printed a conduit tunnel for the attic antenna cables
I'll probably keep a chunk of rock wool in the top for additional insulation and such, and the plate will live in a closet ceiling so heat loss shouldn't be too bad I think
Darrell Hilliker 👨🦯♾️📡The Simple PTT Lucid: A Push-to-Talk Radio Built with the Blind Community in Mind: https://blindaccessjournal.com/2026/04/the-simple-ptt-lucid-a-push-to-talk-radio-built-with-the-blind-community-in-mind/ #accessibility #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #GMRS #POC
Justin DerrickIt’s been a while since I last played with this, but I’m wondering if someone has a recommendation for a really good #SDR - receive only, a mix of #hamradio, #CB, #APRS…. Something with wide bandwidth so I could record say, all #FMRS or #GMRS channels at once, or listen to the whole #900Mhz #ISM band for #LoRA and #Meshtastic chatter.
I’d probably run it off a #RaspberryPi 500, so USB is preferred rather than PCI-E.
derekheldoh neat
this thing also has an FM radio which is nice enough - it doesn't sound amazing but it sounds better than you'd expect - but if you're on a GMRS channel in the background and it gets activity, it'll silence the FM and play what's coming in on GMRS.
i mean idk maybe that's normal on these little HTs but I hadn't encountered it yet, nice little feature baofeng
What this does is let me have basically the same labels on here as I set up on the Midland 40W unit, instead of frequency which is the default. Why frequency? I _do not know_. GMRS is _channelised_. This radio _does_ let you _receive_ on arbitrary frequencies and lets you store like 1000 presets, which is _great_, but the default on the bottom 30 should bloody well be the defined channel numbers.
But no, big string of digits showing the frequency that literally no one in GMRS needs to care about. Arf.
