How do I determine what cables will actually work programming Baofeng HTs?

I had one that came with it when I bought a UV82.
This cable also worked with Wouxin KG1-UVD.

Lost that cable, and now I have purchased two replacement PSC 03 cables from different companies.

Neither works.
The mini CD from Baofeng that came with one of the cables; says use program # 348.

<There is no program # 348 on the disk>

When I try to use the cables? on a laptop using WInXP and Chirp;?
I get error messages:
"ERROR 2 radio not found".
"COM 5 not available".

IDK how to identify a cable that will indeed work with this radio.

Possbly, I have a cable that is not FTDI compliant, but I don't know how to check this.

Dan
AI8O

There is a thing called, egregious circumstance. Call that, very dire and unforeseeable emergency. It's sort of a last hope CYA. It allows, where no other route can be found, for a lifesaving measure to be taken, almost with impunity.? A grenade, whose pin you expect to never be pulled.

In such an egregious circumstance, one *might* risk such a transmission, *to save a life.*

Generally of course, relaying information of the dire need to authorities is better all around.

Yes, I'd eventually like to get around to unlocking mine, when I learn well, ALL the frequencies and rules, by heart. Cheat sheets are fine, but get wet and worn. Nothing on which to rely.

I smelled smoke one and saved a neighbor's house. Officially, I should not have known. I should have called in a smoke complaint. I banged on his door and not waiting, grabbed his hose, preventing all damage. Tan bark had caught due to a cigarette spark having escaped hus son's outdoor bucket of water, where the son was allowed to smoke. It was replaced with gravel.

Stuff happens. Under some circumstances, most of us would bend a rule or two. But, ONLY then.

Egregious circumstance... when you are effectively between significant harm to body or property and 911.

BillSF9c

Baofeng UV-5R radios can be programmed in the frequency from 378 to 568Mhz and from 126 to 250Mhz, the illegal depends on the country in which it is used.

You could unlock it for any frequency, as long as you don't use it on
frequencies that you're not licensed for, and also not if it's not FCC type
accepted for services outside the amateur bands.

The FCC would not approve of say using one of these to transmit (receive is OK)
in the FRS service band since it's not type accepted, even if you matched the
allowed wattage.

Would they know you're doing that in the FRS band? I seriously doubt it.

Same for the GMRS service. Even with a license. Since it's not type accepted.
Receive would be OK, of course. That would also go for putting it on a
government frequency like the local police band, even if they're going to be
transmitting by the licensed police.

So unlock away, as long as you don't transmit outside the band the radio is type
accepted for and you're licensed for.

Donald KX8K



On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 13:20:44 -0800, "Ronald Wolenski" <rwolenski@...> wrote:

It is illegal to SELL the radios that can be unlocked, not illegal to do it after you bought it.

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It is illegal to SELL the radios that can be unlocked, not illegal to do it after you bought it.

You make faulty assumptions. Get a life.?

Interesting that you would deliberately want to break the law and publicize the fact that you intend to?
I suppose next we can expect a u-tube video on how to make your radio illegal?
We have enough problems with illegal radios operating on amateur bands without folks creating more illegal radios.

--
Jeff - NZ2S/WRAX522

Charlie . . .


On Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:39:54 -0800, "Charlie Thompson via groups.io"
<w5cdt@...> wrote:

Is there a physical mod to unlock these newer radios?

If you're referring to something else, please ignore this.

If you're trying to unlock it to transmit out of the ham bands, I read that the
FCC made them lock transmit to just the ham bands since they're not type
accepted for other services. They got into a lot of trouble several years back
over this.

I have some BF-888's and they're able to transmit on government frequencies, the
440 MHz band, and FRS/GMRS frequencies, too. Some got imported in packaging
that said they were license-free radios. I thought these were just FRS radios,
but they were much more than that, and nothing was even mentioned about FRS on
the box, just that no license was required to use them. Nothing could be further
from the truth, and even though I programmed them for ham frequencies, which
makes it legal for me, someone could program for FRS/GMRS and they would be
illegal there due to not being type accepted, also having about 10X the power
output allowed on FRS.

Donald KX8K






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/g/CHIRP

Did you implemented into Bao mic?

Petr, OK1RP

It would seem logical that in the manual they were coming from a default position where the offset is already at zero or off. Obviously the problem arises when one has already been doing some programming and the default is no longer the current status.

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A friend pointed out to me that to use the procedure in Section 6.10 of the manual, the offset specified in Section 6.11 must be zero. And I see that that solution works just fine, either by using Menu selection 25 to turn off the offset or by setting the offset to zero using Menu selection 26 prior to implementing Section 6.10.

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I guess I was proceeding under the impression that the two procedures would be completely independent, but it turns out not to be that way. Kudos to Ernie, W6KAP, for pointing that out.

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I think the manual should point out in Section 6.10 that correct implementation of the procedure is dependent on having the offset set to zero or turned off.

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73,

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Maynard

W6PAP

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Maynard . . .

On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 15:13:17 -0700, "Maynard Wright, P. E., W6PAP"
<w6pap@...> wrote:

My UV-S9 PLUS was advertised as a dual band radio with 8 watts output and the dual band part is correct. I don’t know about the 8 watts.

It's practice among the makers of Chinese radios to add the wattage outputs for
each band and total it. That's what they claim to be the output. Probably 4W on
2M and 4 watts on 440 MHz. It makes absolutely no sense except maybe in China.
Someone who has been affected should file a complaint with the Federal Trade
Commission.

An example is this one:



Here's what the store has to say about it:

"Baofeng advertises this as being a 15 watt HT. We tested several, on a "real"
wattmeter, we get about 8 watts."

So your best bet is to look at the specifications on each band by itself, not
the total claimed output wattage.

Donald KX8K






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I think that the numbering might be confusing. ?My UV-S9 was advertised as a tribander and is but doesn’t feature the 8 watt output. ?My UV-S9 PLUS was advertised as a dual band radio with 8 watts output and the dual band part is correct. ?I don’t know about the 8 watts.

73,

Maynard
W6PAP

I understand some of these Baofengs can be put on 220 MHz. I don't know which
ones, or how to do it.

I also don't know how good the spectral purity of the signal would be.

Donald KX8K



On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:42:04 -0700, "Maynard Wright, P. E., W6PAP"
<w6pap@...> wrote:

I bought my UV-S9 mostly for 220 MHz use and it works fine on that band. I also have a UV-S9PLUS that does not receive or transmit on 220 but it wasn’t advertised as triband.

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I bought my UV-S9 mostly for 220 MHz use and it works fine on that band. ?I also have a UV-S9PLUS that does not receive or transmit on 220 but it wasn’t advertised as triband.

73,

Maynard
W6PAP

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A more detailed examination of the manual that I received with the UV-5R reveals that the picture on the cover is clearly of a UV-5R or very similar radio. The cover reads "Two Way Radio UV-5R Series User's Manual."

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But the pictures of the unit inside the manual are clearly not of the UV-5R as they lack the "BAND" button. Examination of the BF-F8HP manual on the Baofeng website shows its contents to be essentially identical to the manual that I received with the UV-5R, although I haven't done a line by line check.

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One difference is in the pictures. The frame around the LCD and a few other small details are just slightly different, so maybe the manual that I have and the one Baofeng currently publishes are for different revisions of the BF-F8HP or maybe my manual is for some other Baofeng that has no "BAND" button.

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Interestingly, the two manuals that I received with a UV-S9 (tri-band) and a UV-S9PLUS seem to be identical to the UV-5R manual on the Baofeng website. Neither of these manuals mentions the tri-band capability and neither identifies the model for which it is intended.

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So maybe the procedure for setting up different frequencies that fails on my UV-5R is a procedure intended for the BF-F8HP or some other Baofeng and that doesn't work on the UV-5R.

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73,

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Maynard

W6PAP

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