The best thing to do is get your technician license. It is not hard and that way you can transmit as well as listen. If you are wanting to scan the Baofeng can do it but it is not the best.

I got my license years ago. I need to go back and get my General and Extra.


�Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to
the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep
and bear Arms shall not be infringed.�

-Justice Scalia, June 26, 2008

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