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I've got the UV5R V2+
I take my dogs on long walks at night because I work during the day, someone back home has the other one and we chat pretty much the whole way, on high power. Nobody's bothered us yet.
We only transmit on the frequency that's the equivalent to "Ch9" on camper walkies, but the dual channel feature lets us listen to the police, EMTs, NOAA, and others while we still transmit over the "Ch9" frequency.
We use code names for us and the dogs and have our route marked and divided into sections - just in case someone's listening - so we've got code names for our locations, too.