Michael, I have a B-Tech (Baofeng) UV-5X3 (5R with 3 bands) using a 12V battery pack adaptor that slips on in place of the battery. Works quite well. If I remember, I found it on Amazon as an accessory when I ordered the radio a few years ago. The adaptor pack has a coiled cord with a cigar plug on the end. No wall-wart to worry about. Just remove the battery from the rig and clip the adaptor pack in its place.? Good luck and have fun! Walt WA7SDY
On Tuesday, November 5, 2024 at 04:52:45 PM PST, Michael WA7SKG <wa7skg@...> wrote:
I've got several Baofeng chargers that have a 10V wall wart and say 10v input voltage. Do these have a problem supplied with 12V? I want to put one in my truck and one in my RV and run them from 12V. I have found an adapter cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter and drops to 10V for the charger, but I'd rather just hook it up to PowerPoles and use the 12V distribution block. I don't want to blow anything up or start a fire.
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Michael WA7SKG
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I've got several Baofeng chargers that have a 10V wall wart and say 10v input voltage. Do these have a problem supplied with 12V? I want to put one in my truck and one in my RV and run them from 12V. I have found an adapter cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter and drops to 10V for the charger, but I'd rather just hook it up to PowerPoles and use the 12V distribution block. I don't want to blow anything up or start a fire.
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tnx es 73,
Michael WA7SKG
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Baofeng UV5RA and Accessories for sale
I have for sale a Baofeng UV-5RA, which is the famous 2m/70cm 4 watt HTs with FM broadcast band receive. It works and looks well and comes with a drop in charger, thin whip aftermarket dualband antenna, Baofeng speaker mic, and a telescoping high gain antenna.
The telescoping high gain antenna really gives you gain on 2m. It is 8.5 inches collapsed, 49 inches extended. It has a spring loaded base like the Smiley antennas to keep it from putting too much strain on the connector. I tried it on UHF and it seems to bring up some repeaters there but not others. I am sure you can partially retract some of the sections to get better UHF performance. It also seems to work on 2m and and somewhat on 70cm when fully retracted also.
I also have a Nagoya type dualband antenna which seems to work on 2m but not UHF. I will include it as well.
I am asking $35 shipped for all. I can take paypal/check/MO.
73 John AF5CC
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Baofeng HT package for sale
I am helping to sell off an estate for an SK and from that I have a Baofeng HT package he owned.? All HTs are in pretty good condition overall, except the GT-3 is missing the rubber cover over the speaker mic jack.? All 4 have belt clips attached to them.? Here is what is available:
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Baofeng UV-5RA and GT-3.? These are the famous 2m/70cm 5 watt HTs with FM broadcast band receive.? Both work well and come with a drop in charger and dualband antenna.? I also have a Baofeng speaker mic I will include which works on 3 of the HTs.? It doesn't work with the GT-3 for some reason.? The UV-RA is missing the original antenna but I will include either a Sainsonic thin whip antenna, or a Hypario HFA-701 slightly thicker but still flexible whip antenna (this is really a Nagonya 701 antenna).? Pick out which one you want.
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Also Baofeng GT-1 and BF-888s 70cm HTs.? Smaller than the dualband, both work on 70cm with programmable channels.? I don't have the programming cable for these so don't know what channels are included.? Both have drop in chargers but you have to make sure the BF-888s is situated just so in the charger to get it to work.?
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The batteries seem pretty good on the dualband HTs, not sure on the 70cm ones but they do charge up.? Can't guarantee how long the batteries will last on any of these.? ??
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Asking $60 shipped for the whole package, and I can take paypal/check/MO.
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FS: 2 meter high gain telescoping antennas (Baofeng connector)
I have for sale three 2 meter extended whip high gain telescoping antenna. Really gives you gain on 2m. 8.5 inches collapsed, 49 inches extended. They have a spring loaded base like the Smiley antennas to keep it from putting too much strain on the connector. They have SMA female connectors so they work with the Baofeng and other Chinese (plus Yaesu FT65 and FT4) HTs.
I tried it on UHF and it seems to bring up repeaters there also. Once has a lable saying High Gain Antennas VHF: 136-174 mhz. The other 2 look identical but don't have the labels on them.
Asking $21 shipped for each one. I can take paypal/check/MO.
73 John AF5CC
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Re: DM-1701 pc driver problems
As Colin wrote above:
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The DM-1701 DMR Radio does NOT use a serial cable, for programming.
So forget CHIRP, and any cable with a USB-->serial chip inside.
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Instead the Baofeng DM-1701 cable has direct connections to the STM/TYT CPU's USB pins, aka. straight through wires w. no electronics in the cable.
And the Baofeng upload uses a protocol called DFU, that is mask programmed into the MCU.
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The best driver for Win10 is the STM Dfuse driver, and the 3.0.6 is used by the "Opengd77" people.
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Stan Dye made an excellent guide in howto install the STM DFU driver in the nanovna forum, that guide is valid for the DM-1701 too as the "Connection & MCU type is the same"
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opendg77 can be found here
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If you want to try some other firmware, besides the Baofeng "Factory firmware" ...
There are some differences, so make sure you investigate if opengd77 would satisfy your needs.
Ie. opengd77 will never support encryption, and you can't send "sms like" messages.
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Ps:
If you ever get a TYT-MDUV380 or a Retevis Radio ... Do note that the Baofeng cable will not work on a? TYT/Retevis and vice versa, as Baofeng decided to swap the USB datapins in their plug.
So even if the cables look 100% alike they will not work on "the other model" ...
Well ... Unless you swap the usb datapins in the usb plug.
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Re: DM-1701 pc driver problems
The 1701 uses the baofeng cps v1.05 software, a prolific driver will not work with the programming lead that is used by the 1701, the cable is a straight through lead and does not have a prolific or any other chip in the cable, the 1701 has it's own built in chip set, you will not see a com in the com port section in the windows device manager, you will actually see the device list in the usb section of the device manager, there appears to be 2 drivers for the 1701 one is named dpinst_amd64.exe and the other is dpinst_ia64.exe, i think one is for an amd motherboard the other dpinst_ai64.exe is for an intel chipset motherboard, I used the AMD one and had no issues when using windows 10 or windows 11, find the files i use attached to this post, inside are the software files (cps) and the driver folder, try one of the dpinst_amd64 or dpinst_ia64 drivers, if one fails try the other, make sure you are not using a programming cable with a prolific or FTDI circuit on it, you must used the straight through lead. the lead you need is the one in the picture attached 
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Re: DM-1701 pc driver problems
Or better yet go to the Prolific site and download the currently shipping driver 4.3.0.0, which should also be available via Windows Update in the Advanced section to have Windows Update update drivers as well as Windows software.
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Re: DM-1701 pc driver problems
Don't waste your time with the Baofeng CD that comes with their cable, go to the miklor.com site and download the Prolific 3.2.0.0 driver.? It installs easily and you'll be up and running in a couple of minutes.? You'll have to see which comport it assigns, mine was 5.?
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Re: UV-25 manual programming
The easiest way is to just buy RT-Systems software and cable for 45 bucks. They have it for the uv5r Michael Kimsey
MCP/MCSE/MCSA/MCITP:EA/MCITP:EDT/Security+
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We all know the manuals for Baofeng are difficult to understand.
I have yet to be able to download the .img file from the radio using Chirp on linux. So, I thought I would manually program a channel for the local repeater. Yeah, right. Trying to make sense of the manual is pretty frustrating. There are a number of sites for the UV-5R, but I don't know if the menus are the same for both models. Can anyone shed some light on this? I would be grateful.
73, KK7MSN
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Re: UV-25 manual programming
? has rewritten the manuals
We all know the manuals for Baofeng are difficult to understand.
I have yet to be able to download the .img file from the radio using Chirp on linux. So, I thought I would manually program a channel for the local repeater. Yeah, right. Trying to make sense of the manual is pretty frustrating. There are a number of sites for the UV-5R, but I don't know if the menus are the same for both models. Can anyone shed some light on this? I would be grateful.
73, KK7MSN
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We all know the manuals for Baofeng are difficult to understand.
I have yet to be able to download the .img file from the radio using Chirp on linux. So, I thought I would manually program a channel for the local repeater. Yeah, right. Trying to make sense of the manual is pretty frustrating. There are a number of sites for the UV-5R, but I don't know if the menus are the same for both models. Can anyone shed some light on this? I would be grateful.
73, KK7MSN
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Re: Tassie Devil Radio Case: A Compact Win for My Portable Setup
Supercheap Auto is an Australian wide auto parts company. Other companies might sell other cases that are similar to this.?
As always, I share my ideas and builds, others can take these as they want.
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Re: Tassie Devil Radio Case: A Compact Win for My Portable Setup
All well and good except two issues.? 1. Where is Super Cheap Auto?? It must be a local irvregional chain, I've never heard of them.
2. If they were on clearance, can they be had from the manufacturer?? If not, how would anyone else obtain one?
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I have recently come across this tool case at Super Cheap Auto, it might be worth checking out as a good solution for carrying and storing handheld radios.
https://uhfbandmonitoring.blogspot.com/2024/10/tassie-devil-radio-case-compact-win-for.html
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Tassie Devil Radio Case: A Compact Win for My Portable Setup
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I have recently come across this tool case at Super Cheap Auto, it might be worth checking out as a good solution for carrying and storing handheld radios.
https://uhfbandmonitoring.blogspot.com/2024/10/tassie-devil-radio-case-compact-win-for.html
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Hi, Donald,
I think that Western Europeans use FM band limits comparable to ours and that Japan and Eastern Europe use the lower frequency range. I haven't checked this recently, but I think that's the case.
With respect to the technical specs, the unit is advertised at the website where I bought it as receiving on 220-260 MHz but is advertised as transmitting only on 2m and 70cm. The unit I have, however, does both transmit and receive on 1.25m and the manual shows transmit and receive on all three bands.
The manual shows transmit power as follows:
High 5W(VHF) 4W(UHF)
Low 2W
And the manual (for the UV-5RX Series) does specify that the unit will transmit on 220-260 MHz.
It accesses repeaters that I use on all three bands, so I would guess that those power outputs (high) are about right.
73,
Maynard
W6PAP
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On 10/1/24 17:19, Donald Hellen wrote: Maynard,
Is the 65-75 MHz or the 76 to about 88 MHz sections the FM broadcast
allocation for European radio stations? I know in the US we sometimes
use somewhere around 76 MHz for a private FM link for small assemblies
for the hard of hearing or others who can benefit from a direct sound
feed.
Donald KX8K
On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:57:59 -0700, "Maynard Wright, P. E., W6PAP via
groups.io" <ma.wright@...> wrote:
One error in the manual (or maybe just a difference between models) is that changing the FM Radio band from 65-75 MHz to 76-108 MHz is stated to be accomplished using the A/B key. But the change is actually made using the BAND key. ----------------------------------------------------------------
There's no place like 192.168.0.1
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Some ham radio groups you may be interested in:
/g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas
/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
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Baofeng will label any production batch as the customer wishes.
That is for the 5RM.? Isn't the M-5R a different radio?
Love the Miklor website, by the way.? Great reviews
73 John AF5CC
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On 10/1/24 13:09, John Geiger AF5CC via
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Does the M-5R also transmit on 222mhz?? What is the power
output on all 3 bands?
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That is for the 5RM.? Isn't the M-5R a different radio?
Love the Miklor website, by the way.? Great reviews
73 John AF5CC
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Does the M-5R also transmit on 222mhz?? What is the power
output on all 3 bands?
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On 10/1/24 13:09, John Geiger AF5CC via
groups.io wrote:
Does the M-5R also transmit on 222mhz?? What is the power
output on all 3 bands?
Your questions are answered in
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Maynard, Is the 65-75 MHz or the 76 to about 88 MHz sections the FM broadcast allocation for European radio stations? I know in the US we sometimes use somewhere around 76 MHz for a private FM link for small assemblies for the hard of hearing or others who can benefit from a direct sound feed. Donald KX8K On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:57:59 -0700, "Maynard Wright, P. E., W6PAP via groups.io" <ma.wright@...> wrote: One error in the manual (or maybe just a difference between models) is that changing the FM Radio band from 65-75 MHz to 76-108 MHz is stated to be accomplished using the A/B key. But the change is actually made using the BAND key. ---------------------------------------------------------------- There's no place like 192.168.0.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some ham radio groups you may be interested in: /g/ICOM /g/Ham-Antennas/g/HamRadioHelp /g/Baofeng
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