Looking at getting first pair of radios for me and the boy. Doing it on a budget and have looked into the Boafeng UVR5 on eBay etc. Cheap and cheerful? Or Cheap and nasty?! Would appreciate your thoughts on these specifically and alternatives, but not sets at over £50.
Thanks a million!!
Please note that for radios there are two legal types:
PMR446 operates on the UK legal frequency range. You don’t need any licence etc. They work perfectly well at the normal distances played in airsoft
Baofengs should be operated on a licenced frequency, so you need to buy a licence. They are commonly programmed to illegally operate in the PMR446 range - they are overpowered and can be programmed out of the range so are not legal to operate unless you purchase your own licence or programme them to operate on someone else’s licenced frequency with their permission
The description for other linked handset does not identify its frequencies, but its maximum power exceeds PMR446 levels. So it also needs a licence, and needs to be able to be set to the frequencies provided to the licensee
The simple answer is PMR446. Any make, any model. You just need to try to stick to a similar generation as throughout the years the frequencies have been slightly expanded upon.
Buy a pair of a current model and you can talk to each other plus the majority of PMR users if you wish
(There are plenty of primary and sub ‘channels’ available if you just want to communicate between the pair of you and avoid others)
When choosing a model check the battery options. Supplied rechargeable battery packs will last the day or a weekend for most people
But if you’re very vocal, when they start to get old, or if you forget to charge them then it’s very useful to have ones that you can pop out the battery pack and put in some AAAs etc
