It is too bad only our side gets fucked over like this
Think of Soros, think of the people at Shareblue, etc
Q is very passive and beyond Q we've got nothing
DEFINITELY buy one or more of the Baofeng units from Amazon
They are ridiculously powerful and capable
As anons have said, get come longer antennas to go with them
For under 30 bucks you get a kick ass radio and if you spend a bit more for the 8 watt model even better, but the cheap one will do you