>>881679Now that you have a decent radio, you can experience how awful the baofengs are.
They're great radios for the $30 it'll cost you, but they're not great radios.
My Vertex/Yaesu gear was decent. FT60 got dropped from towers a couple times, frozen in the snow, baked in the sun, and it lasted about 8 years. Kenwood makes good gear too.
I'm really spoiled with my Motorola gear now. If "Mother M" hadn't bought out Vertex's commercial line I'd probably still be running their equipment.
I'd like to get my hands on some Harris gear.
Ham test is easy. Entire question pool is available online, plenty of sites for practice exams (I suggest
aa9pw.com).
>In the flatlands they put tall towers on little hills>here we put little towers on tall mountains 