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The UV-5R is a good budget priced radio. They are good value for the price you pay, but they aren't top of the line. If you take them into town/shopping centres, they are prone to interference, as

Listening, looking around, reading umpteen reviews, and having an old vet budget and too many interests, I agree with some which relate that the Baofeng is a good low priced entry level device for

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Hadn’t thought of the antenna location in relation to the radio. Good call, but we’ll see what he finds out. Rod

Thanks will try

Mark, this happened to me several times, under the following situation: - My feed-line was about 12 feet long, connected to a home-made dual-band J-pole antenna - The antenna was standing upright,

Try a FACTORY RESET. That “may” clear it. Then you’ll have to reprogram the radio from scratch. Do NOT download your existing radio database and just reload that back!! You will most likely

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Bill Welllll... This may best meet the rule, Read the whole danged manual." But a radio tech for any business or agency ought to go a step further and absolutely confirm charging details. An exception

Bill, Thanks for the more detailed explanation. I’m used to having to “dumb things down” for the non-radio folks at work. Even then I get the glazed stares, so I quit explaining and just

The other piece of this puzzle is that LiION batteries require a very specific charging cycle. Trickle charging after they are full may result in metallic Lithium, which becomes an explosion hazard.

Thanks for the clarification. I just ordered the Baofeng BL-5 Battery Eliminator from Amazon Smile, so I can safely use my HT on automobile power. David

They might be referring to transmitting which would take more current than the battery charger could supply. I have a Baofeng DM1801 and a Anytone 878 and I leave them on the charger while listening

I’m the Radii Tech for Clackamas County, Oregon and every radio manufacturer says the same thing! And here’s why: The chargers are, by design, made to trickle charge the the batteries. This keeps

The manual says don't charge the radio and use it at the same time. Is that really true? What is anyone's experience with this? I ran the radio with APRS and charging it at the same time yesterday and

Just started dabbling in APRS. Have the UV-5R, the APRS-K2 cable that hooks up to my LG smartphone, downloaded and installed the APRSdroid software, obtained the APRS-IS passcode and put that into the

Doug . . . wrote: The problem is that you quoted more than a paragraph. I forget the word limit, but in college I think we went with 100 words or less to be quoted. You did provide the source but

Hello Donald, I thought it was OK if you state that it isn't you own article and provide the source, which I did. But fair enough, I now know for next time and I am not offended that you took it down

One other thing I should mention is that a short quote (like one paragraph) with attribution is considered OK. Possibly a picture also. However, you can summarize the article in your own words and

Doug . . . wrote: I have to delete your post because there's no indication that you received permission to paste the entire article into a post here and as it stands now, it would violate copyright