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12 January 2025 at 13:56
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after having a quick look around, to be honest i don’t think either of them are massively better than the UV-5R you currently have
a good external antenna would give you much better performance gain than either of the 2 options
i assume you have passed foundation or studying for it?
long term what are your goals for radio? local nets? HF? satellites? contesting?
the other options are digital voice (DMR / C4FM / DStar)? or even EchoLink which is worldwide over the internet
the biggest thing is whether you have the ability or area to put an external antenna up?
73
Peter
M0PWX (not Pete M0PSX who runs this site)