You'll get a lot of flack for your question, but we've had to defend
our privileges a lot lately and unlicensed operators have given hams
a bad name in a lot of areas. Operating without a license could get
you in a lot of trouble. If you operate on the ham radio bands, hams
have been known to track down unlicensed operators and give all of
the details to the FCC for prosecution. Fines range up to $10,000
and five years in federal prison (those extremes are unlikely, but
do happen) for illegal operation. Getting your Technician license
(the one that will allow you to operate the UV-5R on ham frequencies
is fairly easy. You can study and take practice exams at this
website. http://aa9pw.com/ Once you get your scores up, you can take
the real test at just about any ham club. You can find one close to
you here. http://arrl.com/find-a-club As for adding police and fire
frequencies, the radio you have won't do that in most areas. It's
limited to the 2 meter and 70 centimeter ham bands. Those are the
136-174MHz VHF frequencies and 400-520MHz UHF frequencies. Most
police and fire departments now operate in the 800Mhz to 900Mhz
range. Many of those are encrypted. If you're in an area that still
uses the 150Mhz radios, you might be able to listen in (never
transmit there, the FCC takes that very seriously), but those are
more and more rare. It might be best to get a couple of FRS (Family
Radio Service) radios and use those instead. They don't require a
license and should work nicely between you and your neighbor.
They're also available at most big box stores. Keep in touch, get
your license, and enter the wide world of Amateur Radio. Depending
on your location, you'll find a lot more people to talk to than your
neighbor. Don't let the grumps here scare you off, we're really a
nice bunch.
Randy (KE5EOT)
ARRL, QCWA, ARES, RACES, ROWH
http://ke5eot.webs.com
On 4/20/22 12:41 PM, anthony farley
wrote:
Hello, so me and my neighbor just
got the 2 way baofeng-uv5F radios and we got it to where we
can call eachother on a specified channel he preset but i
would like to add police frequencies as well. I got the
cord, disc program for chirp and have the gist of it down 'i
think' lol. Is there anyway i can make a csv file from the
frquencies channels i find on the website? Or should i
import or query from data source of repeaterbook and is
politcial or proximity search better for finding all the
channels?
Also what settings do i need to set my
radio to for picking up frequencies? Theres just so many
options for each channel/ frequency i pick im just not
sure what to do or if theres an easier way to import a
csv file of all the frequencies/channels from that site
to something like excel and transferring it to chirp?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in
advance!
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