Literally listening to the only station broadcasting right now that I can pick up on my meager baofeng and he is expounding on the virtues of bleaching your pubes so that the carpet matches the drapes. Protip, ladies.
Lemme hop right on getting that technician's license and onto a "list" so I can legally be part of that crowd, but also so that the gov't has a formal record of who and where I am when the shtf and they want to round me up as having the known ability to communicate outside of approved channels.
Yeah... no.
the Baofeng is a nice radio for the price- that's it's only perk. The stock antenna is not the greatest, but there are aftermarket antennas that will improve the reception. But, if you get too big of an antenna, it will burn out the unit, so they don't make a good fixed, base station radio. Your location's topography (mountains or flat) will be the biggest factor to the Baofeng's performance, though.