Make your vedio as long as you like. I'm learning and I'll watch. Thanks

When adding new memories using the "Import" option there is an option that says "Adjust New Location". That is the selection that lets you choose what line to add new memories too so it doesn't over ride old ones.

I will never complain about a video being too long. Thank you for your work, sir.

I just want to thank you for spending the time to teach us dummies, who don't know anything about these radios.

This is a great, helpful video and exactly what I was looking for. I was struggling with Chirp before I watched this. THANK YOU!

Just got my ticket and this is exactly what I needed to program my first "practice" HT. Thanks. ***Not everyone is at the same skill level and need a detailed explanation. Those that think some parts are too long can just fast forward to the info they need. Just like a book. ***

Hands down the best Baofeng programming video I've watched. Bought 6-pak UV-5R's and they're all up and running. Thank You!

Found your KZfaq video, and really enjoy the classroom style of instruction. As an Newbie with Ham Radio, this help me very well. Good luck on future videos.

Perfect video for me. I am new to radio and purchased a few UV-5R radios for disaster preparedness. This video is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for taking the time to make it. I am sure there are many out there that appreciate it the same as me.

good discussion of the topic.... I have had uv 5r for almost 10 years now and use daily. It is still going strong. I like the step by step along with the side comments...

At 23.45 (minutes) the actual programming of frequencies begins should a viewer need no help with nuts and bolt settings on the radio itself.

great tip on opening up a new tab and importing the channels there, then copying and pasting it where you want. Because otherwise it seems like it just imports all over the place and distorts your list! So thanks for that!

Great was encountering issues with my new radio, however after watching this video all is simplified.

I just got the uv-5r. This video covers everything! Thanks so much. Not too long, just right.

I am a Ham KB1QHM have been for 10 years and I love this hobby with all my heart. can,t wait to receive my Baofeng,s

Thank You for Considering The NEW HAMS.

Thanks for this helpful video! Since this video is so long, I would recommend that you add time stamps for various parts of the video in the description. Cheers

I wish I had seen this video first!!! I finally got it all figured out and then I found this! Great instruction!

Well done, this has been most helpful. Even though I'm using my Baofeng mainly as a receiver/scanner the overall information has helped me know which items on CHIRP are either useful or to be ignored. Another plus to this tutorial is the voice only and not the person's face which can be very distracting when taking in lots of information. I only needed to watch this once.

This is the very best description of the CHIRP parameters that I have found. If anyone has other good ones please post I dont think it was too long. The commentary was relevant. The CHIRP website / help file should include all this!!! Thanks to ccg711 !!!!

I was actually more interested in the basic information provided as I'm not a radio guy, so most of it is new to me. CHIRP is a very intuitive and easy to use program, I just needed to know what the functions did and what they were, something this video did an excellent job of going over.

I tried the just figure it out method and got so far and your instructions helped, I had to change my COM port and then the radio was recolonized, Thank You

My #1 beef with all these CHIRP programming vids is none tell you about NAMING FREQUENCIES / MEMORY CHANNELS. If you name a freq in CHIRP and upload to radio, it won't display unless you change 2 of the menu options on the radio itself. Once upload to radio is complete, disconnect from USB cable and find MDF-A and MDF-B in the menu options. Select "NAME" in both MDF-A and MDF-B. MDF = Multi-Display Function. A or B is watch channel 1 (top) or watch channel 2 (bottom). You're welcome.

This is an excellent video. This worked for me and I have working on this for two days. The pace and length are perfect, I watched on one screen and set the program on the other. I am windows and ended up using com 5, for UV 82X. Thanks for the video.

Not seen the whole video by a long way, but what I have seen looks just the thing I was looking for. Excellent stuff!

WELL done - being very down-to-earth HELPED. I watched this twice because of both the NEW-TO-ME Chirp, but also programming those BAOFEND buddies. You did a great job - and BY accident I received 99% of your message. Many folks (those that have never taught college) are TOO quick to jump on the messenger - rather than realize how very informative a one-way conversation can be. I am brand new to HAM and remember using my police radio now over 46 years ago to 10-4 a command to work security and guard the Manson Family at the L.A. Courthouse in the dinosaur age.

I’d rather have a video fully detailed than one that doesn’t explain what certain things are and do. Thanks SO MUCH

I know this is an old vid but for those watching when you have freqs loaded in already and you want to add new freqs in typically below what you have. BEFORE you enter them in you want to change the to and from numbers by hitting the + or - 10 button and or the + or - 1 button at the bottom of the screen (right below where it says 'ADJUST NEW POSITION") holding the freqs you're about to add. This will change the channel assignment and where what you're about to enter will go in the list. So for example let's say you have all repeaters in your list already and they number 1 to 11 and now want to add all the NOAA freqs. You're gonna bring up the NOAA freqs and look at the to and from column and you'll see they are all set from number 1 to however many there are. If you enter it now, it will simply overwrite the repeaters you've already loaded. So change their position by hitting the +10 button once and the +1 button twice. Now the numbers should read from 12 on. Now when you add these to your list they will go under the repeaters you have listed from 1 to 11 beginning with #12 to however many NOAA stations you have.

When you import the various lists from various sources, the window that pops up with them is where you position where they'll drop onto your list... its done with the + or - 1, 10, 100 buttons along the bottom.. ie, to drop the new list into your existing list starting at slot 46 you'd click the +10 button 4 times and the +1 button 6 times. The slot numbers on the left should show what they'll end up being in your final list before you add them.

After watching this Video in its Entirety, I was able to Successfully Download the Frequencies from my surrounding Counties Effortlessly. Thanks Again for a Great Video.

Theo things to note.. 1) you can get the correct driver free from baofang website. 2) windows won't even allow you to select the port if it's not being used so knowing which port you're hooked to is not needed. Whichever you connect to is the only one that you can select and it auto populates..

Thank you SO much, I received 2 BTech UV-5X3's for Christmas, and I was having a heck of a time programming. I just followed along with this video, and it all went perfectly! 73 and thanks again!

Very informative and detailed video. This is a great help to someone who is new and is programming the radio for the first time. I've got a Baofeng BF-F8+ which is a second generation UV5R but the programming is the same. It's really easy to import from Repeater Book using Chirp as shown in the video.

Great video. I've been looking at these and all the reviews say how hard they are to work with. But this makes it so much simpler. Thanks so much for it

Just to clarify some items in this video: The Baofeng/Pofung radios are currently type accepted and/or legal for Part 90, which is business band and public safety band. FRS, GMRS and MURS are Part 95, for which these radios are not type accepted. Also, MURS has been an unlicensed radio service since 2000. There may still be some legacy licensed users in some areas. This radio can also be used, as the author stated, in the Amateur Radio Service, since radios for that service are not required to be type accepted. Additionally, Wide vs. Narrow refers to the bandwidth of the Narrow Band FM signal. Wide selects 5KHz signal deviation, and narrow selects 2.5KHz signal deviation. Wide Band FM is used for terrestrial commercial broadcast radio, such as you would pick up on an FM radio in your car. WBFM signal deviation is on the order of 200KHz. Finally, with regard to CTCSS (Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System) and CDCSS (Continuous Digital Coded Squelch System), attempting to share a frequency by using separate tones also requires you to monitor the frequency without tone squelch, first, to make sure that you are not going to transmit over someone else. In fact, most mobile, commercial, part 90 type accepted radios have a feature where they switch from CTCSS/DTCSS to carrier squelch, when the microphone is taken off hook. Overall a good video, with a little bit of rambling. Probably better suited for a new Baofeng/Pofung user or a new Amateur Radio licensee.

Thanks for the video. Got a UV-5R for Christmas and tried to install the software on the included disk. It basically locked up my Windows 10 system. Chirp makes programming the radio a cinch.

Thank you, long but very helpful. I had bought a programing cable on ebay, after some frustrating attempts. scraped it bought another one, and everything worked fine.

Squelch. The easiest way to explain is it that if the airways are busy and you are hearing too much noise and traffic especially from weak stations that you dont want to hear, move up from zero to hear only the stronger signals. If the traffic is light and you WANT to try to listen to weaker, distant stations, move down towards zero. This would be the way for shortwave listening but it applies here and CB also. At zero setting you hear whatever the radio hears; at the highest setting you wouldnt even hear your neighbor calling you because he wouldnt have a powerful enough signal to overcome that setting. Start at 2-3 and soon enough you will find the right setting for your needs.

Hi. I've had the UV-5R for about a week; watched many videos on this subject and found yours the easiest to follow. Thank you. My problem is that I must be missing something. My primary intent was to use the unit as a scanner - listen in on police & fire incidents in the area with GF (now I'm going to get basic HAM license). Anyway, I followed the steps on the video and everything worked as it ought to. I don't get much activity though. I'm in a very urban area, Hartford CT, and would think that there would be a lot more on the radio. Plus, when I manually enter some frequencies, on the last digit I get a 'Cancel' response from the radio. When I use the FM, it picks-up many stations, even those further away than I would expect. I manually entered a few local fire/police frequencies I got from RadioReference (I signed-up for a subscription), some work, many don't. So, I think the radio it's self is okay. Can you give me an idea of what I might be doing wrong, please? On the Baofeng site I see the newest radio is available for about 65 bucks; do you think I ought to return the UV-5R and upgrade? I've spent about a week working on this and really haven't gotten what I expected; other than on the FM band I've gotten reception maybe on only 2 or 3 VHF signals? I'm frustrated right now. Any advice or instruction will be appreciated. Thank you.

I know this video is old, but you sir, gave a great presentation, I was able to understand a lot more about the program and some features, thanks!!

This has been very useful! I know very little at this point and the Baofeng is my first radio.

Dual Watch Priority chooses whether A or B will be used for transmitting if you are scanning. This prevent you from accidentally transmitting on the wrong frequency.

This has been very beneficial video for me. I know nothing and so this video has been amazing. Sure its long, but you do a good job on explaining it for the complete novice.

Go as long as you want.

There may be complaints of this being to long, but I think you put just about all the information in that needs to work with the radio. I just got the radio and it took about an hour to get Chrips loaded and get the radio going. I've given 400 bucks for HT's that didn't do what this little job does. Thanks for the video..

For windows users you will need to install the driver for the usb cable which you can get here: www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php To find out what COM port you are connected to follow these steps AFTER installing the USB driver: - With radio connected to computer go to your control panel - Change view option from "category" to large or small icons - Select "Device Manager" - You can also right click on the "This PC" icon on the desktop and select "Manage" then "Device Manger" - In "device manager" locate the option named "Ports (COM & LPT)" - Expand that option and look for where is says "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM#) - Whatever number follows the word COM in the parenthesis is what your COM port number is. Remember this will change depending what USB port you plug into on your PC so it is best to always use the same USB port.

Great step by step primer. I appreciate it.

Ignore the whingers... this is a very helpful tutorial. thank you.

thanks for this I bought my baofengs years ago but never used them as I thought I needed special license hearing they also for on the other makes me so stoked lol

GREAT JOB... Not to long!! The more info the better. You can always FF the video to a section you like... Thanks for the info!

Thank you from all of us newbies

Thanks for a very informative video! You are very knowledgeable.

Thank you for your video on programming my uv-5r. Tho I don't have my ham license yet. But I will get it. At least my radio works now. Anybody with info on / about the tech license test would be helpful. Thanks again, Greg

You should've mentioned that before you can program any baofeng radio you have to put it in VFO Mode (Frequency mode). You can do that on a VFO button on the UV-5R but on the UV-82 or UV-82-HP you have to hold down menu as you turn the radio on.

This is gonna come handy during this worldwide pandemic

Thanks for your time, that helped me a lot, I'm new to ham radio, best.

Long but helpful video. The best part was when the changes wouldn't upload and you power cycled and reconnected everything...you know...like real life. Also sifting through the menus sort of haphazard is very realistic how we will be exploring CHIRP. Thanks! 73 NC4RX

Very good overview of Baofeng programming with CHIRP for Radio newbies. KD9EMM and 73

Thank you because I am one that is relying on this long video because without it you might as well be talking Chinese to me. And to whoever is complaining about this video being long then why watch it you obviously don't need this level of help so go complain somewhere else

LOL, great review, but @7:47, that creaking sounded more like a gurgly FART!!!! :D you have made a very comprehsive video, and very detailed. Not for Newbies! :) Enjoyed it very much....keep up the good work!

This was a wonderful(!!) video. I am a Ham newbie. I finally figured out how to get Chirp working (driver and connector issues) and thanks to you I now have it programmed with the right stuff. Rick, KN4JIE

This step was totally left out of the video. When you already have, for example, channels 1-8 already in the radio, saved, and you dont want to overwrite them, and you have more that you have set up to add. In order to add starting with channel 9 thru whatever, that is what those buttons are at the bottom are for, so you can place the new channels starting with number 9, or skip to 10 if you want to. Doing it this way will keep you from overwriting the channels 1-8 that was already there. For example, clicking the box with the number "10" in it will move "1", to the tenth position. Clicking the box with the number "-1" in it will move it to the 9th position, etc. Just play with it and learn. KM4IVY

Thanks. For a beginner it was excellent.

This was very helpful. Thank you.

I got my baofeng cable for £1.51 delivered from gearbest, works excellent will all my radios.

I just purchased mine yesterday. I have found that when I type in my local police frequencies I cannot hear anything. I’ve looked up my local repeaters and just now am starting to hear communication being transmitted

Very informative. Thanks for putting this together.

Very good explanation, thanks

OK so I'm pretty sure I bought a counterfeit Baofeng UV5R. It came with a fake programming cable, which didn't work, even when using CHIRP and the official Baofeng software. So I bought the real programming cable but it STILL doesn't work with CHIRP. I got the Baofeng software to work with it, but I'm not able to do everything I should be able to do with it; it won't let me do certain thing within the program. I'm wondering if its the radios fault or something else.

I just bought 3 UV-5R from Amazon 7-25-2021 One has a white label in the batt compartment It WILL transmit on FRS and GMRC freqs the other 2 look like newer model have blue labels they will NOT transmit FRS or GMRC. I guess the new ones are blocked. I used CHIRP to program all 3 the same

Because of this apocalypse I wanted new shoes and a six pack of uv5rs. I've had plenty of shoes but the radios not so much. 3 o'clock am, that's when I was finally able to get my little ACER laptop to communicate. An epic struggle for certain but how many apocalypses do we get amiright?

You took over 40 mins to explain a 10 min process, but an informative video none the less.

MURS, FRS, GMRS are all regulated under FCC Part 95 for which this radio is not type accepted for. So legally here in the United States, this Baofeng will get you into trouble and can cost you several thousand's of dollars in fines. This radio is FCC Part 90 type accepted and therefore legally can be used in Part 90 (public safety, fire, ems) and amateur radio. This radio is also used by Federal Agencies that fall under NTIA such as NORTHCOM.

Most of the errors are for the volume setting on the radio! The volume on the radio has to be past half way if not volume all the way up!

CHIRP is not flakey regarding 30:15. If you use the + and - buttons it will change the channel numbers.

Little bit helpful. I have a new GT 3 TP and know nothing about 2 way radios' Just beginning to study. I am LOOKING for a video on HOW to program these things. I don't know why they didn't make a better manual with them.

Hi mate, thanks for the detailed video. Not sure if I'll get a response considering it's been 8 years since you posted this, but my question is... How can I set a channel to not broadcast anything? My problem is that I am listening to a frequency which I and many others stay tuned into, but I don't want any kids getting their hands on the radio and potentially speaking to hundreds of people. I don't want to disable the whole radio, I just want to disable a specific channel. Please can you give me different options? Someone mentioned I can change the duplex mode to "off", which should apparently only disable that channel from talking to anyone. Thanks mate.

Perhaps an alternate short version would be a good idea too

This was extremely helpful in figuring out how to properly program my Boafeng, Thanks!

learned a few things with your video! thank you!

Great job, very, very helpful. Thanks much!

Good video on chirp. Enjoyed it and learnt some aspects I didn't know about. Thanks for making it. 73 G1JXI.

Tank you. Good knowledge.

Thank you for your video it helped me a lot. I have recently bought the Baofeng UV-7r But cant program it with chirp can you recommend another platform please

i have chirp and am still trying to programme my baofeng radio

not sure if anyone has noticed but it is Kermit the Frog yyyyeeeeeeeeee Thanks for the upload ccg711

Why would I ever use "LOW" power on the power setting? Does that affect the distance? Just curious? thx!!

Good in depth video. Thanks.

Great video - Thank you!

Thanks for that.

Thanks well explained video, I have a UV-5R and want to use only as a receiver and would like to disable PTT button, so basically not to use as walkie talkie, is this possible please with CHIRP? Thks

Do you need a ham licence to just use the FRS frequencies? The FRS is authorized 22 channels in the 462 MHz and 467 MHz range, all of which are shared with GMRS.

the only solution!thanks

I am not into amateur radio, but a long time scanning enthusiast. I just ordered a UV-5R on Amazon, but have not received it yet. I have seen several schools of thought online regarding disabling the transmit feature. One says to set the Duplex setting in CHIRP to Off and another says to set the Offset to zeros. However, in your video, I saw check boxes in the Settings > Other tab for VHF TX (transmit) Enabled and UHF TX Enabled. Is it as easy as unchecking those boxes to,ensure you don't accidentally transmit on a frequency you are scanning?

Thanks -very helpful to this newbe

I just got my radio today. It's a uv82hp. Got the genuine program cable. Programming is a pain in the ass! I found out I hate windows 8 even more, and that it will fail to connect to the radio unless I remove the antenna. Then it's just peachy. What an ass move. I can't transmit yet as the fcc still has yet to push the papers through showing I'm a technician. Hopefully soon. At least I only had to program 5 things for Laramie. Ha! Suck it large city goers!

I do agree with it being rather lengthy however I do understand why, as I am a beginner as well. I am using the new Chirp daily-20160507. Any suggestion with this interface?

IF I ONLY DOWNLOAD NOAA AND FRS SETTINGS AND DELETE ALL THE REST COULD I USE THIS SAFELY AS A WALKIE TALKIE WITHOUT A LISENCE AND NOT CAUSE ANY INTERFERANCE WITH ANY HAMM LISCENCED POEPLE ?

did you mention the importance of Duplex On/Off?

If CHIRP is not supported by Baofeng, what software is supported by Baofeng? I am using CHIRP with only a few issues. But. if there is a Baofeng programming software, what is it?