Fun fact the specialized equipment used to track transmitting radios was made by the Germans during ww2

@@lukevonkaenel7460 fun fact - fanta was also created in WWII era germany!

I mean, that's not a loophole. It's literally by design. That's like saying "there's a loophole to getting into R rated movies if you're underage. You can go with your parents."

In a time of emergency an unlicensed individual can broadcast on a ham radio. But the handbook, doesn't give a clear definition of what an emergency situation is.

Not true you could track someone pretty easily with Justin h t and a yagi antenna and an attenuator if they're not moving too much

Like they haven’t fined anyone or they haven’t tried to get someone criminally charged?

@@pws3rd170 theve never moved to prosecute

​@@tb7pets yep. It's one of those regulations that just shouldn't be in place anymore. Seems like a stupid tax if I'm honest.

@@bbbbbbb51 Them having the option to prosecute doesn’t hurt anyone and acts as a further deterrent against potential rule breakers. And the fact that they have chose, so far, to not use it means they aren’t abusing their power. You gain nothing by removing their power to prosecute.

​@pws3rd 1 the fact there's no case law does not help their case lol

Don't even need to drop it afterwards, waste of 30 bucks.

Fingerprint tracked😂

​@@azmisj80gloves 😎

you dont need to drop it, radios only can be tracked while they sending a message and you send a message by holding the button down to send a message

Track recent packages, show what mobiles what in the area at the time. Bam pinged you in the neighborhood

Someone gets it.

Lol

Big facts bro

But was anything he said incorrect? I don't understand the "power of authority" part when he didn't say he was going to be the one tracking people down lol.

@@IIMiikexDII Yeah. In the event of an emergency, HAm restrictions tend to be lifted. 1. Emergency situations, anybody is allowed to broadcast for help/explain what is going on, kinda like how you can still make a 911 phone call on any phone even if it isnt activated with a carrier. 2. There are MANY people who use a ham radio just for standard communication. It can still work even in areas where you cell phone has no service (such as camp sites in the middle of nowhere that the closest cell tower is 300 miles away). Most people who are actually interested in having an amateur radio very much so use it for more than just emergency instances, and to be honest, in a lot of situations, a radio is just simply more reliable than a cell phone. Furthermore, you can just get a friggin license and not have to worry about all that. Finally: Imagine owning a Baofeng radio as your primary ham radio.

Hamature....🙄

Also, nowadays you'll probably do more time for ham radio

I def don't want to be in for Ham radio time. The big boys will steal my lunch when they find out.

Inmate 1: how tf Inmate 2: press button then weewoo

Don't you just get a large fine?

I came here to say this

Some sweaty old guy is gonna try tho

They only go after it when you do it intentionally do it either to the point it becomes impossible to ignore, or abuse it

People will find you and report you

That makes sense but I’m guessing they’re not as hard on you if you use it in emergencies, so if you’re bleeding out and it’s the only method of communication you have so you call out to anyone you can, you’re not gonna receive some outrageous fine on top of outrageous medical bills

Good one, made laugh then cry.😂

Here in eastern Afghanistan this is the only thing for local communication

Unless a licensed operator gives you his call sign, or if it's an emergency. During emergencies call comms can be used to get help. It's right there in the law.

Yeah, I have a radio scanner that picks up ham radio

CB is different

@@timokane-vu3ks is it more illegal to abuse the HAM radio frequencies than the citizens band ? I know you're not supposed to play around on CB either but maybe it's not that big of deal. My dad probably said that so I wouldn't mess around

@@col.cottonhill6655 cb is citizens band, it is unmoderated apart from maybe channel 9, and can be used by anyone, as the radios u can buy for cheap don’t broadcast hundreds of miles like high wattage units, which are debatably illegal, but if u buy one it’s perfectly legal to mess around with, which I do with my friends very often

Cb radios are completely legal to use and doesn't reach as far as ham radios

@@timothywhite8130 unless you get yourself one of those handy dandy 1000W ebay redneck amplifiers and scream autistic nonsense on channel 6, seems to be a common thing to pick up

I got 50 people that could find you dont take that risk

@@austinchaos8770 huh?

@@austinchaos8770 found the hall monitor

I mean, direction finding is super easy and only requires around $50 worth of equipment. Clubs have Easter egg hunts for children to teach them.

@@pb6839 and they do what? Report John Doe (like anyone is going to identify themselves to someone not local law enforcement) to who? Do you think the FCC is coming running for a handheld on ham bands? Or do you think local police with their encrypted Motorola trunk systems care about your ham band? No Identification, no enforcement

Nah this is an ad Hes selling a course

😮 an illegal pillow or matress! No tag means it probably has a gun too 😂

The buyer can remove the tags, it is only “illegal” to remove them beforehand.

Hello satan

Right hahaha

😂😂😂😂😂

?? Where do you live that they tell you how many tomato plants you can have?

Where do you live?

@@maverickricardo4478It’s probably some BS city ordinance.

Be careful they might show up with a butcher at your door

@@tychodancer Oh, just like how I can't own a fucking hedgehog as a pet in the state of Georgia? Just because they're "unsure about them" (last time I checked their reasoning for the law, 15 years ago). My favorite animal too! Cute little SOBs 😢

To my knowlige in a life or death situation you can transmit on whatever frequancy you want so you get help

1. Emergency situations, anybody is allowed to broadcast for help/explain what is going on, kinda like how you can still make a 911 phone call on any phone even if it isnt activated with a carrier. 2. There are MANY people who use a ham radio just for standard communication. It can still work even in areas where you cell phone has no service (such as camp sites in the middle of nowhere that the closest cell tower is 300 miles away). Most people who are actually interested in having an amateur radio very much so use it for more than just emergency instances, and to be honest, in a lot of situations, a radio is just simply more reliable than a cell phone. Oh, and BTW, just to bring it up, in a lot of the states where it's illegal to use a wireless communications device while driving, there exists a specific exception to amateur radio... obviously check your state laws before taking that for granted, but a lot of states, this is a thing. Just in case you truly thought these weren't commonly used devices for standard situations. Edit: oh, also, requiring a license isn't that stupid. The bands are single direction transmission/receive, meaning if one person on a very high powered device is needlessly sending massive sound over a band nonstop, that band essentially becomes useless. One of the things the license ensures is literally a signed agreement, legally enforceable, to be respectful on the bands. This is also only one if many reasons it makes sense to require a license to operate it, which you would probably know if you did even the tiniest bit of research before hating on the hobby, and yes, we call it a hobby, because it's far more than emergency contact, in case you needed more.

​@nikolaideianov5092 yes, you are absolutely right. Emergency circumstances, anybody may use a HAM radio for help. Licensed operator here to confirm such.

@@zacharyplacker6271 If this document you sign is legally enforceable, why not cut out the middle man and just make improper use of a radio against the law? How often do people just get on and misuse/overuse frequencies, anyway? I’m a pilot and a line guy at my local airport, I know how easy it is to grab a radio and start talking, one behind a counter in the public terminal. And the airport frequency is available to find in a dozen places, yet I’ve not seen it happen. Is there any anything else to getting the license that make it worth being licensed?

Exactly

Dubious at best. It wasn't one of these radios. They don't tune ATC frequencies. I know because I was a controller for 13 years and I own one. More likely, they were hot miced in an aircraft on the ramp.

@@mcalsip couldve been a CTAF on an uncontrolled field

@@TooManyBoats1 almost definitely, but those frequencies are on the ATC bands and the Baofeng won't tune those.

That sounds terrible, . . . bet your arms are tired!

It’s annoying when people hot mic, but when they hot mic while roasting someone, well that’s just annoyingly funny!

Be respectful on it and they will never have a reason to track you down or question your use of it

It’s usually not the FCC. If you’re being a douche on the channel, it’ll be a HAM that tracks you down. They have events called fox hunts for fun in which they basically practice the skill.

It's never the FCC that catches you, it's the fudds that snitch in you

@@davidbrunner4413 Usually, if you don’t act stupid, you don’t have a problem. Unfortunately, that’s why all this regulation and BS exist in the first place. The world probably overall be a better place if half the people in it knew how to act like adults, or at least figure out there’s a time and place for everything.

*COULDN'T care less. Why do you guys say "they could care less?" That literally doesn't make sense. Saying "they COULD care less" means that they do care.

Enforcement Bureau proposes $24K fine to Beaudet for willful interference with amateur radio in Burney, CA, violating section 333 of the Act, and for failing to transmit his call sign, violating sections 97.101(d) & 97.119(a) of the Commission's rules.May 30, 2023

@@terrygunderson5681except there are allowances for power of the unit. These handheld models are generally built to be under that limit so that any person can use them for recreational use. The company rugged radios sells literally the exact same thing for race and off-road use and it’s completely legal because of that rule. If you’re on a hard mounted model then yes the rules change but handheld models are a different ball game

On our aviation radio licence course( in the EU), there are countless mentions that in case of emergency, you can basically do whatever it takes to solve the situation, so I don't think you'd have any problems doing it in an emergency.

"Have fun giving trying to give me a fine, I'm stuck in a ravine with a broken leg in the wilderness :3"

@@chillbro1010 Now you've got both the Mountain Rescue and the FCC looking for you. I'd take it as a win

I have two hams for that reason and I preemptively looked up all the local repeaters to know how to transmit to them in case I need to reach someone far away. I've got a path that will get me about 100 miles using repeaters. Kinda cool preparation as I live where hurricanes like to visit often. Last time one came through we lost cell phone uses for three weeks in a 30 mile radius

Ofc, you can only use it for operations relevant to the emergency, i.e you can't go jamming people just because there's an emergency.

He's selling a course that's why.

their was a fcc van or whatever came down my road one day asking questions, i dont know the exact reason but i guess some guy in the area was being a dick, rumors in the area he was messing around on the police freqs.

It's possible, but it's extremely rare.

As a member of the RAF, yeah. Most people don't care. But, at least in the UK, the government (and us) gets very pissy if you start broadcasting on military frequencies. Check where you're broadcasting!

These are very illegal in Egypt and other countries even having walkie talkies can get you arrested

Another

Lucky bastard

I always got called on not putting out my call sign letters first. Wow. That was late 70's and I still remember them.

Military channels are encrypted. Can’t just stumble upon them with a random radio. Half of what this dude said is correct. Amateur for sure

​@@kop4860 And has this always been true, or only in more recent times? I've picked up chatter from Ft. Stewart not too many years ago.

Tf

@@JOSWAY787 wooooshhhh

@@STUKABAKER36what a world we live in where if we don’t say lol or lmao, we are automatically wooooshed…

based

Oh, shiet

I’m thinking of getting one of these. can I listen in without any problems?

@@LGgamingatgamesyes, this thing work like a FM radio (but in a different frequency), and yes, listening is NOT prohibited

@@flhrhw thank you so much

​@@LGgamingatgames I'm pretty sure it's impossible to track down or even check if anyone is listening to a radio broadcast

​@@tailstechvideos2327I am sure you could create some sort of device that's capable of reacting to the presence of an antenna.. There are reflections involved but it would be a pretty useless invention

honestly as a licenced ham i never really cared if folks used the radios without a license. If your using a club repeater just try to be decent on there. But for simplex operation just find an empty channel in the simplex sub band and nobody will give a crap.

How do I get my license?

@@ChrisHirner how do people know if ur licenced

The FCC has literally never prosecuted anyone for unlicenced use of HAM freq's. Even if HAM's track you down the worst they can do is give you the stink eye.

@@ChrisHirner 'required' 🤣

As a ham I agree. I would rather someone get excited and involved, then we can get the license later.

In my experience i never ran into people raging over non licenced use but they exist 100%. Imho just dont interfere and you get my approval

@@alopandur Not ham police. I want more people using the service, not less. It's just that there are idiots out there who think it's fun to interfere with others using radio legally. There are also idiots who think they can use whatever they like who end up interfering with licensed operators. Rules, regs, and licensing are to make the bands generally usable for everyone. Fifty bucks or less($35 to the FCC and $0-$15 for the test) and you can get a Tech licence. You can buy a book or find free classes in-person or online.

In my humble opinion, I believe that you're taking this video out of context. Assuming that this was his only video, versus a KZfaq short, I would agree. However, taking into account that he has a good attitude and simply appears to be sharing some information, among other information about the subject, I am convinced that this is no more than a topic among topics.

They're scared of strangers talking to them

BC its only transmitting that requires a license. It's perfectly free and legal to own the device and listen through it without a license.

This is the case for a surprising amount of things on Amazon

It could quite possibly be CB radio

@@williamplymale7599it’s also completely legal depending on the wattage used for transmission. These operate on the same frequencies as regular handheld walkie talkies and those are completely legal. I don’t remember the specific numbers but these sort of radios are legal because they’re so low power. They’re extremely common in the off-road and racing communities since there are so many options for frequencies that it’s likely you’ll find a completely empty channel to use solely for your comms. I’ve ran them for racing and the only issue I ever had was another team having the same frequency but we talked it over and found a different one to keep separate comms

wow

What range do they have

​@@bigskyoutdoors423240 billion miles

In an emergency situation being licensed or not goes out the window and anyone is allowed to broadcast. Their range depends on the watts of your radio. The guy posting this video is using a BaoFeng 5VR 8 watt radio. He is probably going to get 8 to 10 miles range line of site. You go into mountains and canyons it’s drastically cut down. Unless you hook up to a local repeater which can transmit you across the coast if they are networked

​@ericspearo5731 imagine your trying to outrun a tornado or something see a car and are like... ohh nah man I can't drive that, my license is suspended 😂

💡😂🙏

there are rules against it.

Imagine speaking on ATC radio without licence

​@@loadingsolate oops, there goes the pentagon

you wouldnt get arrested, youd get fined. but they only care if its a constant abuse of the button.

yes but an accident is different than doing it intentionally.

Doesn’t make it not illegal for unlicensed people…

I would be so chronic that I would be doing it at the border in Mexico broadcasting to America and no one could do shit

When I was in high school, we used to track people for fun. In fact we used to make a game of it, playing hide and seek across the entire city. Whoever was hiding would randomly transmitted and The seekers would track. It would take literally minutes to track someone down who was either being annoying or interfering with our conversations. Sometimes this would result with snipped coax going to their antennas once we found their house.

@mo mo lol

@mo mo such an intelligent well-thought-out comment..

@@russr That only applies to base stations though. No way you can ever find a walkie like this thats on the move

Worst part is that you won't. Old technology is less surveyed

​@@kalvynhavenhill3366 nah its just that the fcc already doesnt have enough funding They wont pay someone to find some rando that isnt couseing a problem And if you are a problem then someone else would find and report you (if its on ham bands)

Taxes

Fr bro I could roast him fr bc radio operating is my profession

Not a good flex when he’s holding a $25 radio anyone can buy on amazon

@@415jokr but he can acctually use it! HAM Feds will come for me because i am not certified! But HE made this video soley to flex that HE CAN push the buttons unlike me.

I can see there being a fine presented if it’s someone constantly being a nuisance on first responders radio. But I really don’t see the FCC tracking you down for transmitting every once in a while

Agreed. Im seeing mixed messages about general transmission vs transmitting on emergancy frequencies and havent gotten a clear answer but one this is for sure. If you stay off frequencies for aviation, emergancy responders and so on, youll be ok. My old job had lower end radios and there was no issue. Whe. Me and a few others got this exact radio, we had a co worker tune them to our works frequency and channel.

​@@GreyBlackWolfyeah you're basically good as long as you're not bothering anybody. Pirate radio stations are just as illegal and it's pretty rare they ever get taken down by anything other than their operators losing interest in the project.

​@@davidponder1654 you're right if somebody is interfering with radio signals from the police or truckers or the military you're going to get really screwed but if you're just talking to another random person on a ham radio nobody cares

@@davidponder1654 The last fine I am aware of is one guy got hit with a big fine for operating an unlicensed radio station. Even that took a year or two for them to actually come out and do something.

“I’m pulling into wal mart now!”

We been using these in a hunting club for years. They don't talk very far. Those that get tracked down are on base stations pushing 10,000 watts

​@@GaryGoat350 this killed me

There is a game called fox hunting that hams find transmission

​@@Hawken707 So I can use it between cars on a road trip

Hes scaring people into buy the course he linked. This is an ad.

@@dr.robotnik7334 In an afternoon of chatting, a couple of hams could easily track you down.

Yea exactly like it's so obvious

Yea that’s a shtf scenario I’m registered to use this and the only way your being tracked down is if militias are out n about trying to raid you n that’s if you don’t communicate with code

OK doctor robotnik plus as long as your not being an arse you’ll be fine

ever

A quick Google search shows 1 in 2011 and 1 in 2016. Ultimately it depends on the old people around you if anything. Most Ham radio operators are in their mid to late 70s now.

@@Rommer2258 I have one in my car just in case. I would rather pay a fine than die in a ditch in the middle of a blizzard when my cellphone is dead.

​@@USERNAME1-x5u its not ilegal if your in danger you can break some law to save your life

@@aoki6332 Yeah. I figured they would rule it out quite easily if that was the case.

@@alexlammers6371 do you have any proof that hes not ? do you have any proof that you are a licensed operator? the hypocrisy here is insane.

@@alexlammers6371 that's not really proof that's just knowledge that can be found anywhere for all I know you could just be making up a random string of characters as a callsign theres really no way to prove this unless you wanna send over ur card with a picture of yourself or verify by radio and DM I'm not asking you to do anything just trying to put in perspective that theres really no way you can just prove something like that just as the other guy can't prove hes a vet unless hes got medals or shows a military id VA card whatever it may be

@@MYTOYMAKERZ no problem, good luck to you sir

Is this legal advice?

@@freedomseeding no lol

In the event of the nuclear apocalypse no one is going to try to track you down unless you claim you have food and weapons

Boy, you better believe Uncle Sam getting his cut after the earth melted

It wouldn't surprise me if by then getting fines and pat taxes would be a thing

Can you get in trouble for what you say? Can you contact military planes/helicopters and just say whatever you want?

He can not contact military anything. Don't believe it. Maybe military contract employees, yes.

​@@evan3458 if youre generally being a dick on an important frequency like police lines, military comms, EMS lines, etc. and/or refuse to get off when someone tells you to, or maybe try to impersonate someone who actually uses the comms like emergency service dispatch or a soldier relaying false information just to mess with the military, youll probably get someone annoyed enough to track you down and report you, which would easily give the FCC enough reason to take away the license, otherwise should honestly be ok

I'm pretty sure... It's not "any frequency"

​​​@@UndercastEsmeganitrospeedno, it really is any frequency. It's just that it's also pretty much only meant for emergency situations where establishing a line of communication at all is more important than anything it might interfere with and using it frivolously will get that license yanked in a heartbeat.

That was probably a walkietalkie from the dollar store

how would they know who’s pressing the button, 😂 it’s not like you have to display your license everytime you use it. This guy is overreacting

@@TBjunk25 the FCC can track and pinpoint a broadcast. so yes, they can come after you. the likelihood they are gonna be able to hone in on the sparing use of this handheld is slim to none. they have bigger fish to fry.

@@Tyler-ts2ld also other ham operators,some are legit trackers with their homemade equipments and then report the possible location to the FCC As long as you stay below the radar it’s fine but if anyone abuses the radio then defo someone will report it

@@Tyler-ts2ld But why would they automatically assume that the individual does not have the right to use that frequency.

You can talk to the ISS?

And when have you ever talked to someone supposedly in the ISS??

@@mepking3877 yes, when they fly over, which you can usually see with the naked eye, you can tune into their frequency.

@@diychad7268 when they fly over my house. They’re only around 230-300 miles above the earth, and semi expensive ham radios can operate at that

You don’t need a Ham license to be a pilot

I would say that is completely fine. At the very least you are using the bands in a way that cannot interfere with license holders who are the primary users. I always recommend to get your license as it isn’t just a piece of paper and has some very important safety information that you should learn.

@@FatallydisorganizedGMRS is also a licensed service, for what it’s worth. The point of the license isn’t to keep people out, it’s to try and make sure you know enough about your equipment and operating procedures to be effective and not do something dumb.

Isn‘t the UV-5R illegal anyways because of harmonics?

or under supervision of a licensed operator one operator covers the whole house

​@Aaron-zu3xn really?

If you transmit on emergency, military, or law enforcement frequencies they can triangulate your position

​@@hewbambam well they can have fun finding me in a open field then

​@@hewbambam we're talking about mobile radios here, you also have the option of hitting a repeater with a high-gain antenna

or just get licenced. theres only 35 questions on the test and it only cost 35 dollars.

@@HarrierHawk-iq5ikor I could just not give the government money for nothing

​@@Nordkampfye that's a better idea.

​@@HarrierHawk-iq5ikyou coudnt make my generation pay for media unless it's a branded corporation.

You don't have to destroy the radio or go to a random location.😂😂😂😂

Steel plates are fine as long as they have a liner on the plates and you put in a trauma pad.

​​@Someone said War ?? Gotta start somewhere, I've bought my share of junk over the years. Before Trijicon and Aimpoint I used Truglo, for my first rifle.

@@BloodyKnives66 yea if you like getting your shit plastered in spall stop being cheap your life’s worth more than $200

@@BloodyKnives66 Yea that’s fine, the problem is when you get online and start peddling shit products to idiots because you think you got it all figured out is what I have a problem with.

I hate content like this.

No, it's not "perfectly legal". Those radios aren't legally certified for usage outside of ham bands. Odds of getting caught are next to zero, but it's still not at all legal. Just like going 1mph over the speed limit.

​@@beartwigs At that point, fuck the law

So if I invent a radio, it's you God given right to use it? I have no say how my invention is used?

@@stephenwalker6939 Yes. If I own it I’m gonna do whatever the heck I want with it.

​@Stephen Walker imagine inventing a tool, selling that tool freely, but not allowing that person who bought it to use that tool. Like, a hammer, or a nail gun. It's a communications device, not a g un or two ton death machine.

@Thought Criminal I think you replied to the wrong person lmao

Wahre Worte

I use those all the time with my Baofeng.

@@captainwasabi if what you say is true, please post a link directing us how and/or where to license a device. Only operator licensing is mentioned in any FCC resources I can find.

Close call

💯 right lol 😆 🤣 me to

same!

They very easily could find you. Most the software is actually free download on computer if that’s what you’re into. I was a cryptologic linguist in the Army, and it is incredibly easy to track a radio like this. That being said, I really don’t think anyone would even care if you have a license, Nevermind tracking you down lol.

In that case the wont find u they will be looking for the guy who is playing with that

If this was literal, It’s a portable radio you talk into it, and people can talk back