A few hundred dollars secured you an FM walkie-talkie through which you could chat on your local repeater ... licencees will now own a Baofeng UV5 or similar radio. The FCC though are not entirely ...

Well, you’re in luck with the Baofeng UV ... Most ham radios offer some type of programmable memory function, where you program in a frequently used channel or repeater, and a single touch ...

Repeaters work well for range improvement ... The concept is to use a cheap Baofeng radio to feed into a gateway based around an ESP32 audio development kit. Mount this in a box with a LiPo ...