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[PabloCruise]

I thought the PP was against radios? I like them and would be great to use when on the trail.

Ron this is all you need to know about the Baufeng radios. You don’t have to program them although that may be easier once you figure out the hard part!

BaoFeng UV-5R dual band
Triband = GMRS/FRS/HAM

VFO/MR orange button
Frequency Mode / Channel Mode
VFO allows you to manually enter the frequency

A/B blue button
Switches upper to lower frequencies in the two little me display. You can listen to both but only transmit on the one selected as indicated with the triangle.

Lock Key w/ # and blue key picture
Press and hold to lock keypad and is shown in upper right display by battery indicator

Low Power vs High Power
Tap the # button. Will see a L in the display on the left indicating Low power mode for use when close. L = 1 watt and High = 4 watts. Battery will last longer on L

FRS/GMRS Channel Conversion
01 462.5625
02 462.5875
03 462.6125
04 462.6375
05 462.6625
06 462.6875
07 462.7125
08 467.5625
09 467.5875
10 467.6125
11 467.6375
12 467.6625
13 467.6875
14 467.7125
15 462.5500
16 462.5750
17 462.6000
18 462.6250
19 462.6500
20 462.6750
21 462.7000
22 462.7250

That is a pretty darn useful summary!

 

[PabloCruise]

Now that we have your radio sorted lets figure out how you can bring your pets on the camping trips with you too!

This is the kind of tech I expect from you cats and chicks!!!

Winning...

 

[PabloCruise]

Only J Mack could find something like that! I've seen some crazy things people do to goats, but never hung one on the side of a vehicle.

For those occasions when you prefer not to have the goat inside the car...

 

[gonzopancho]

Only J Mack could find something like that! I've seen some crazy things people do to goats, but never hung one on the side of a vehicle.

Go on…

 

[gonzopancho]

That is a pretty darn useful summary!

Here I am trying to simplify my life and not deal with computers (or more than the 2-3 people I actually like) and someone has to go and ruin it.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Go on…

An older guy bought a goat kid off of us for meat and put it in his Ford Falcon trunk to take home. We sold a couple kids to a whole family who's Grandpa hog tied them and threw them in the pickup bed. The goat kids were screaming and Jeri was crying, what a scene and never sell any goats around Halloween. We had a few of those kind of people call us. We finally decided to only sell goats to the sale barn and not deal with people. Most of our sales off the farm were for breeding stock, but you always had some that didn't make the grade.

 

[WarDamnEagle]

Geez @scrapdaddy. I never would have thought of a Halloween connection. How could you filter them out over the phone? Hi, sir we are looking for an altar size goat for our "celebration". Do you have anything in a 44" length?

One of my uncles had goats free ranging on 40 acres of swamp/timber and every 4th of July we would bait them into a cattle catch pen over a few days as there were a families around that wanted BBQ goat. They can certainly make a frightful noise when they are scared.

 

[scrapdaddy]

I'd just tell them we were out of stock around that time. We bred the Does in the Fall in order to have kids @ March 15th. We sold those kids between 3 and 4 months old, at least the kids that didn't make breeder grade, so we really didn't have much for meat in Oct. Our baby bucks would be over 80 pounds by 4 months and were looking to breed! We didn't keep many bucks around.

4th of July was a big deal for goat meat and so was Ramadan.

Two of our yearly bucks.