Everything BaoFeng & VHF Radios

skegpro · Jan 21, 2018

Re: Everything BaoFeng & VHF Radios

Heavybrewster said:
Is there a way to disable the ptt on radio when a mic is mic is installed. we keep getting false transmissions when they are in our Bca avy packs.

Unfortunately no.
There is a transmission timeout feature.
I set mine to 30 seconds. That way if the PTT is depressed for 30s it automatically shuts off and someone else can get a word in.

Best bet is to put it in a Pringles can or a Tupperware container.

X-it · Jan 21, 2018

Re: Everything BaoFeng & VHF Radios

Took the tyt along today, with just the regular antenna, i used it for calling. A guy behind me 3k said it was nice and clear, maybe he was telling the truth.

Phat Cat · Jan 21, 2018

skegpro said:
Awesome point.
I'll delete the images and just leave the .CSV file.

Can you bring up the National ATV Cordnation Frequency to them, maybe they will adopt it?

Either that or 146.460 MHz seems to be the unofficial offroad frequency. But it gets lots of chatter in some popular jeep areas.

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Great input. I will see what they say if they do decide what frequency. I have a feeling that if they do designate a channel it might be a UHF (FRS or GMRS) channel so that people with the family walkie talkies or the BC link radios can tune into that frequency. The nice thing about our dual band radios is that we can also use UHF.

I am going over the study material to get my basic amatuer radio license. Some of the material is complex unless you are an electric engineer. FML I only want a license to use a radio not to build a radio or a repeater station.

skegpro · Jan 21, 2018

Phat Cat said:
Great input. I will see what they say if they do decide what frequency. I have a feeling that if they do designate a channel it might be a UHF (FRS or GMRS) channel so that people with the family walkie talkies or the BC link radios can tune into that frequency. The nice thing about our dual band radios is that we can also use UHF.

I am going over the study material to get my basic amatuer radio license. Some of the material is complex unless you are an electric engineer. FML I only want a license to use a radio not to build a radio or a repeater station.

Lol.

To bad the UHF is useless in the mountains.

People that want to live chose VHF.

Maybe if you get your ham license you can build a cross band repeater to solve this problem.

the_real_wild1 · Jan 21, 2018

Phat Cat said:
Great input. I will see what they say if they do decide what frequency. I have a feeling that if they do designate a channel it might be a UHF (FRS or GMRS) channel so that people with the family walkie talkies or the BC link radios can tune into that frequency. The nice thing about our dual band radios is that we can also use UHF.

I am going over the study material to get my basic amatuer radio license. Some of the material is complex unless you are an electric engineer. FML I only want a license to use a radio not to build a radio or a repeater station.

Did that test about 19 years ago. Good info to have but I would have to relearn how to do the basics like using repeaters. It is a good back up to have

skegpro · Jan 21, 2018

Had a good question come in via, PM .

Fella wanted to know how to program a channel in chirp so it was listen only.

Go under the duplex column and set it to off, this will make that channel listen only.

https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MemoryEditorColumns

Duplex

This sets the duplex mode of the channel. If set to (None) then the transmit and receive frequencies are the same. If set to either +* or *- (plus or minus) then the transmit frequency will be either above or below (respectively) the receive frequency by the value of the Offset field.
If the duplex is set to split then the Offset field should contain the absolute transmit frequency to be used (if the radio supports this capability).
If the duplex is set to off then transmission on this channel will be disabled (if the radio supports this capability).
Note that for simplex channels, this should be set to (None) and repeater channels should have this set to either +,-, or split.

Phat Cat · Jan 21, 2018

skegpro said:
Lol.

To bad the UHF is useless in the mountains.

People that want to live chose VHF.

Maybe if you get your ham license you can build a cross band repeater to solve this problem.

Are you saying UHF frequencies are useless on our 8 watt radios or useless from a 1 watt walkie talkie?

skegpro · Jan 21, 2018

Re: Everything BaoFeng & VHF Radios

Phat Cat said:
Are you saying UHF frequencies are useless on our 8 watt radios or useless from a 1 watt walkie talkie?

Both

UHF has good penitration power in dense media, such as buildings.

VHF will bounce and bend better in mountainousn terrain.

Having said that if your group was organized enough it may be a good idea to use UHF in dense trees for its penetration.
And then VHF in everything else for its long distance properties.

We get away with it because we pour the wattage to it, but if you are using a full 8w on UHF 400mhz frequency in really this trees it may be slightly better.

But then again I am getting 18 km in dense valley trees......

Phat Cat · Jan 21, 2018

Re: Everything BaoFeng & VHF Radios

skegpro said:
Both

UHF has good penitration power in dense media, such as buildings.

VHF will bounce and bend better in mountainousn terrain.

Having said that if your group was organized enough it may be a good idea to use UHF in dense trees for its penetration.
And then VHF in everything else for its long distance properties.

We get away with it because we pour the wattage to it, but if you are using a full 8w on UHF 400mhz frequency in really this trees it may be slightly better.

But then again I am getting 18 km in dense valley trees......

I've communicated with people using BC Link radios a fair distance away in the mountains surrounded by trees. Our radios with higher wattage and better antennas make a difference talking to lower watt radios.

People will still insist on buying BC link radios for some reason. Dedicating a UHF channel for emergencies wont exclude them.

Phat Cat · Jan 21, 2018

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Here is a link to some instructions how to program radios via CHIRP.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sU5PTd_gLvDcX5owjAVf8NYFIn5vgCpd/view?usp=sharing

skegpro · Jan 21, 2018

Re: Everything BaoFeng &amp; VHF Radios

Phat Cat said:
I've communicated with people using BC Link radios a fair distance away in the mountains surrounded by trees. Our radios with higher wattage and better antennas make a difference talking to lower watt radios.

People will still insist on buying BC link radios for some reason. Dedicating a UHF channel for emergencies wont exclude them.

True.
Wattage is the difference maker.

Wrench & Ride · Jan 21, 2018

Picked up a UV-82 the other day and played with it for a bit and got it programmed then didn't touch it for a couple weeks. Went to use it in the truck and even with the volume maxed out it was just barely loud enough to understand voices over the road noise in the truck. I'm new to these things and don't have another one to compare the volumes but I'd assume it should be louder than that? Are these generally a little on the quiet side or is mine just a dud?

X-it · Jan 22, 2018

There are a lot of UV-82 models, did yours just say UV-82? A bridgecom mic sure is loud you might want to order that if you have a spare 60 bucks. I have warrantied a few baofeng radios.

Wrench & Ride · Jan 22, 2018

X-it said:
There are a lot of UV-82 models, did yours just say UV-82? A bridgecom mic sure is loud you might want to order that if you have a spare 60 bucks. I have warrantied a few baofeng radios.

Ya I cant see any numbers more specific than just UV-82. The plan was to eventually throw a mic on it anyway I was just concerned with maybe something in the radio is cutting the volume somehow. I plugged in the little acoustic tube earpiece that it came with and it definitely wasn't loud enough to be uncomfortable to listen to and I was in a quiet environment at the time. I tried a factory reset then reloaded my channels but it didn't make a difference.

X-it · Jan 22, 2018

What did you set chirp to UV-82 or UV-82hp?

X-it · Jan 22, 2018

I would say your radio is defective, but try downloading the vip version just encase off of this site.

http://www.baofengradio.com/endownload.asp

Wrench & Ride · Jan 22, 2018

X-it said:
I would say your radio is defective, but try downloading the vip version just encase off of this site.

http://www.baofengradio.com/endownload.asp

Chirp was set to UV-82. I'll give it a shot with the other software. If not I'll try and get a new one. Thanks

X-it · Jan 23, 2018

Well .. Wrench & Ride??? Having troubles with RAR files? 7-Zip will help. Set pass repert noise to 1000

RGM · Jan 23, 2018

Wrench & Ride said:
Picked up a UV-82 the other day and played with it for a bit and got it programmed then didn't touch it for a couple weeks. Went to use it in the truck and even with the volume maxed out it was just barely loud enough to understand voices over the road noise in the truck. I'm new to these things and don't have another one to compare the volumes but I'd assume it should be louder than that? Are these generally a little on the quiet side or is mine just a dud?

It is a dud, I had one that was like that

skegpro · Jan 23, 2018

RGM said:
It is a dud, I had one that was like that

RGM has warrenty, buy the next one from him^

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