I work for Tennessee state parks and we use Kenwood radios but the maintenance, cabins, and office staff use Baofeng uv5rs and they work great communicating with our radios. they have no problem going through hills and over 3 miles away through DENSE woods. Ive been heard even up to 10 miles away on one. they are bone stock with the rubber antennas. they have ZERO issues. they aren't the best but they work great for what they are and even some public safety work.
Long live Baofeng . my first one still works. they all do. Them early extended battery had a odd charge jack and charger. The new version has USB C right on battery . problem solved. even the new small battery has USB C on it. and their is a mid size battery for that as well. same size a standard battery but thicker. came with my UV-5X one. but CHIRP sees it as a UV-5G . If that nut comes loose on antenna jack. you can take volume knob off and place it on antenna jack and tighten nut. that volume knob is a special tool for tighten antenna nut that comes loose from swapping antenna sometimes . now my GT1/GT5TP/GT3-TP all have different charging stand even though battery is same voltage. so I have a box of charging stands . Thank you Baofeng ! gave me more to carry . most of the new models are USB C now. 73's
Hey that's cool. I have the same one in Yellow, and I use it with a Mobilinkd 4 to do APRS. Just does the thing I need it to do. I think I paid $12.00 for it back in 2016 as a deal of the day on Amazon. 73.
ISO9000 just says you have a quality standard which you confirm with audits. If your standard says you ship broken radios less than 50% of the time, and you audit and confirm, you're ok.
There was a quote from the TV Show Caprica: "A difference that makes no difference is no difference" - they are both a good place to start and they both have their faults. Glad you got your start, lots of fun stuff to do (including playing with cheap radios)
@@w1rcp That dummy load (geni.us/YlnRyc) is off a cell tower site and it has an inductive tap so you can plug your SA into it and not blow up your SA. Its a massive amount of attenuation.
@@temporarilyofflinewelp. tinySA is now in my hands. Time to test all my radios! I used my o-scope on one ‘feng, wasn’t all that interesting because of the sample rate of my scope. I can’t see anything higher than 150MHz. Boo.
@@temporarilyoffline I’m new to ham and have a couple of these laying around to learn on but am looking at getting something along the lines of the Btech 6x2 pro or the radioddity GD-88 what is your advice on either or something close in price range but maybe a better pick
The 6x2 and the GD-88 are both great radios. DMR can be pretty difficult, so take it slowly and don't get discouraged. My first response to this question is always: What digital mode does your local repeater use? If its C4FM and you're DMR, then you've lost that local knowledge base.
@@temporarilyoffline I’m not sure I do know that a couple of the guys in the local group use the anytime at-d878uvII which I think is about the same exact radio as the GD-88 maybe a little different firmware setup if even that but I have prior knowledge of both Btech and radioddity radios and programming so that’s kinda why I’m leaning that direction nothing against anytone I have just never had any of their equipment
The 878 and the 6x2 are similar radios. Anytone makes both of them and then puts the btech label on the 6x2. You'll find that a lot of the radios are made by anytone. If you're not on TOADs, be sure to find the link in the description and join us over there. Its a live chat system where we all talk. We also have our own DMR room that you can join in as well.
In some locations, there might be somebody on that harmonic that is a paying or public service user that you could potentially interfere with. Honestly, I can't find anything on any harmonic in the US that would matter, but it is something that hams like to complain about to justify their $800 HT purchase.
@@temporarilyofflinethe third harmonic of 2m is in the 70cm band. This is the reason using two baofeng for satellites doesn't really work. You transmit on 2m and the third harmonic of of your TX wipes out the 70cm receive on the other radio.
Good morning Mr T.O ☕️,, coffee and radios , looks like another warm one today, stay hydrated man ..
Good Morning!
My Fengs were my first radios. I love them but you get what you pay for. The Fengs are now my GMRS radios for the family to use. Thanks for the video.
Absolutely you get what you pay for. And if your expectations are in-line, you'll be happy. Sound like you've got the right expectations!
I work for Tennessee state parks and we use Kenwood radios but the maintenance, cabins, and office staff use Baofeng uv5rs and they work great communicating with our radios. they have no problem going through hills and over 3 miles away through DENSE woods. Ive been heard even up to 10 miles away on one. they are bone stock with the rubber antennas. they have ZERO issues. they aren't the best but they work great for what they are and even some public safety work.
They get the job done!
Long live Baofeng . my first one still works. they all do. Them early extended battery had a odd charge jack and charger. The new version has USB C right on battery . problem solved. even the new small battery has USB C on it. and their is a mid size battery for that as well. same size a standard battery but thicker. came with my UV-5X one. but CHIRP sees it as a UV-5G . If that nut comes loose on antenna jack. you can take volume knob off and place it on antenna jack and tighten nut. that volume knob is a special tool for tighten antenna nut that comes loose from swapping antenna sometimes . now my GT1/GT5TP/GT3-TP all have different charging stand even though battery is same voltage. so I have a box of charging stands . Thank you Baofeng ! gave me more to carry . most of the new models are USB C now. 73's
USB-C is the only way to go!
Hey that's cool. I have the same one in Yellow, and I use it with a Mobilinkd 4 to do APRS. Just does the thing I need it to do. I think I paid $12.00 for it back in 2016 as a deal of the day on Amazon. 73.
Sweet Deal!
ISO9000 just says you have a quality standard which you confirm with audits. If your standard says you ship broken radios less than 50% of the time, and you audit and confirm, you're ok.
That's why I love audits and inspectors!
I love my baofeng, and always will. 😂
You never forget your first.
You'll need those 2 charges, cause baofeng's charges only last for a couple months, lolz! Tnx Man!
😁
Doesn't the upper end to the bad have a minus offset? Maybe I am missing something. 73
70cm high end is +5MHz (at least in the repeater I was using)
So "push" must = I x R. Lol
I'd buy it cause it's a cool yellow. Lol
Radios in colors are pretty cool.
ring ring, banana feng.
Ooh, that's a winner!
Most of Hams starts with Baofeng, I start with Talkpod😂
There was a quote from the TV Show Caprica: "A difference that makes no difference is no difference" - they are both a good place to start and they both have their faults. Glad you got your start, lots of fun stuff to do (including playing with cheap radios)
ISO 9007?! It ain't even Housebroken!
Right!
I'm 4 minutes in, and I can already tell I'm going to want to buy something.
But 2, they're cheap
Yep. I want a ESSSS AYYYYYY!!!! And that dumb dumb load looks cool as crap too!
@@w1rcp That dummy load (geni.us/YlnRyc) is off a cell tower site and it has an inductive tap so you can plug your SA into it and not blow up your SA. Its a massive amount of attenuation.
@@temporarilyofflinewelp. tinySA is now in my hands. Time to test all my radios!
I used my o-scope on one ‘feng, wasn’t all that interesting because of the sample rate of my scope. I can’t see anything higher than 150MHz. Boo.
# is the shortcut for power..try it
Thanks!
OOOO I have the ultra!
Sweet!
0 for the voltage
This is all that matters.
I've got 2 of these , love them 😍
Like a pocket knife!
Feng gang for life
#UV5Rmy
Interesting video on uv5 to me
Thanks Uncle Danny!
@@temporarilyoffline I’m new to ham and have a couple of these laying around to learn on but am looking at getting something along the lines of the Btech 6x2 pro or the radioddity GD-88 what is your advice on either or something close in price range but maybe a better pick
The 6x2 and the GD-88 are both great radios. DMR can be pretty difficult, so take it slowly and don't get discouraged. My first response to this question is always: What digital mode does your local repeater use? If its C4FM and you're DMR, then you've lost that local knowledge base.
@@temporarilyoffline I’m not sure I do know that a couple of the guys in the local group use the anytime at-d878uvII which I think is about the same exact radio as the GD-88 maybe a little different firmware setup if even that but I have prior knowledge of both Btech and radioddity radios and programming so that’s kinda why I’m leaning that direction nothing against anytone I have just never had any of their equipment
The 878 and the 6x2 are similar radios. Anytone makes both of them and then puts the btech label on the 6x2. You'll find that a lot of the radios are made by anytone. If you're not on TOADs, be sure to find the link in the description and join us over there. Its a live chat system where we all talk. We also have our own DMR room that you can join in as well.
So why care if the radio is dirty? How does that affect me? Its 25 bucks. If it hits the repeater, I don't care how "dirty" it is.
In some locations, there might be somebody on that harmonic that is a paying or public service user that you could potentially interfere with. Honestly, I can't find anything on any harmonic in the US that would matter, but it is something that hams like to complain about to justify their $800 HT purchase.
@@temporarilyofflinethe third harmonic of 2m is in the 70cm band. This is the reason using two baofeng for satellites doesn't really work. You transmit on 2m and the third harmonic of of your TX wipes out the 70cm receive on the other radio.
I thought it was "BOOF WANG" 😂
This ain't Randy's channel 😂
😂@@temporarilyoffline