Can BAofeng work on marine VHF?

[maxwell]

im not really familiar with radios and frequencies etc but my Baofeng has a preprogrammed channel called VHF16. When i turn my boats marine radio to channel 16 they do not connect. I thought beofeng was FM?

 

[kimrick]

im not really familiar with radios and frequencies etc but my Baofeng has a preprogrammed channel called VHF16. When i turn my boats marine radio to channel 16 they do not connect. I thought beofeng was FM?

VHF Channel 16 is the international distress frequency; it broadcasts on a frequency of 156.8 MHz and is received worldwide by any VHF radio.
Try to manual enter it on your Baofeng and then try it......

Depends whoever programmed your Baofeng. I find people have programmed them differnt than say, "Rays."

 

[Caper11]

I thought VHF16 was primarily used as a marine emergency channel.

I looked at the baofeng VHF frequencies programmed into my radios, and channel 16 is not the proper frequency for channel 16 on the marine band.

Looking a the VHF channel frequencies that are programmed into my radio, I think these are Ham channels, they are not marine channels.

 

[Teth-Air]

I know at Kootaney lake, marine 68 is used by most boaters. (156.425) Yes you can program to it. I did try it but for some reason I was hearing but my brother could not hear my Baofeng transmission with his boat radio. I checked my programming and all looks good. There is no tone squelch or digital squelch required. I will need to play with it some more. FWIW I have have heard that these small hand held radios work very poorly over open water without a good antenna and ground plane.

Take a look here: https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?aid=7766

 

[Mike270412]

I thought VHF16 was primarily used as a marine emergency channel.

I looked at the baofeng VHF frequencies programmed into my radios, and channel 16 is not the proper frequency for channel 16 on the marine band.

Looking a the VHF channel frequencies that are programmed into my radio, I think these are Ham channels, they are not marine channels.

2 meter ham is 144-148 mhz

 

[Caper11]

2 meter ham is 144-148 mhz

That’s the frequency range of the VHF channels programmed into my 3 Baofengs.

 

[RGM]

Yes , I put them in on request.

 

[RGM]

im not really familiar with radios and frequencies etc but my Baofeng has a preprogrammed channel called VHF16. When i turn my boats marine radio to channel 16 they do not connect. I thought beofeng was FM?

VHF 1 to 26 are just Ham frequency I program in. I put in marine channels in on request. They start with MR.

 

[RGM]

You can always enter the marine channel in frequency mode

https://boating.ncf.ca/vhfchannels-west.html

 

[X-it]

Here is mine.