I have an 18 inch Abbree for my Baofang Uv-5RX. So far I've noticed it works better when it's folded, then when it's open. Anyone else experience this?
@RestoreItAll26 күн бұрын
Great video I have a baofeng BF F8HP What would you recommend for a car roof magnet antenna To be used with my radio ? Wil. That other Guy
@gighavlex18 күн бұрын
I have the same question..
@GetYourCommsUp18 күн бұрын
I have one of these and for a small unobtrusive mag mount it works very well. amzn.to/3YsSX7S
@RobSharp-wo5qjАй бұрын
Hi Great information . you could add dish soap to the water to help extinguisher fire It redouse the surface tension in the water . Also set up lawn sprinklers on and around structures to wet the area,
@GetYourCommsUpАй бұрын
Yep I’ll be covering that in my next video! We have tripod sprinklers that live in the truck and have T-post mounted sprinklers here on the property that also get pre-staged during fire season. Same with the soap. A couple jugs live in the truck with a bunch more stored at the house ready to be dumped into water for exactly that reason! Great advice!! Thanks for the comment!
@JulieClusterАй бұрын
Excellent video!
@inquisitive1911Ай бұрын
Scotland the Brave at the end!! Thanks for the video. Much Love from Scotland, ❤ 😊 XXX ...
@dslayer1169Ай бұрын
I have a GMRS license and five HT’s just incase one breaks (they’re cheap, but reliable being Baofengs) which is great! Recently ordered a Retevis RA86 GMRS micro mobile for my car and am going to set up a base station eventually at home for my wife incase phone lines/internet go down to reach me clearly a few miles away. I’m thinking about getting my technician license for ham to have more watts for more distance as well as access to VHF and eventually HF legally. UHF is great for where I’m at in the city with all of these buildings though at the moment.
@JJH0326Ай бұрын
Is it weird I've been listening to Ham radio for two years and I've never heard anyone? Is that normal in some places? I just bought a yaesu, hoping it maybe will work?
@GetYourCommsUpАй бұрын
@@JJH0326 what area are you in? You should be able to hear a local repeater in most locations in the US. Simplex is only short range, but repeaters usually have decent coverage.
@JJH0326Ай бұрын
@@GetYourCommsUp I have to drive 30 minutes just to go to the grocery store so it's probably where I live ..but here's hoping the yaesu 65r or whatever it is ends up being a little better then my other radios😂 I'm just bored out in the country I think is why I want it to work lol
@GetYourCommsUpАй бұрын
@JJH0326 for simplex you can try listening on 146.52. Sometimes there will be traffic on it as that is the national simplex frequency. The other thing to do is look up the repeaters in your area. Try the Repeater Book app, or www.radioreference.com/db/browse/ To find the local repeaters. This should help you find something to listen to!
@JJH0326Ай бұрын
@@GetYourCommsUp thank you for the reply! I'll be looking into that soon.
@richallcorn2 ай бұрын
BTW ... the CALL BUTTON ... I never would've known that it could be used to turn the FM receiver ON/OFF without this video. Thanks!
@richallcorn2 ай бұрын
I watched this to see if I could figure out how to use the "blue" buttons. Is there a "hot key" to activate them? Like the "LOCK" key, you just press and HOLD. But what if I'm programming and in the MENU mode with a channel setting I am modifying? How do I then activate that button? I'll look for your next post.
@nomadchad82432 ай бұрын
I was testing all my random antennas with a surefire SWR tester. witha dummy load at 150:900 i was at 99.9% I had a a wrist slap antenna and a long felxible one that you recomended. they were both around 80% the others were under 50% efficient. what kind of swr numbers are you getting with these?
@GetYourCommsUp2 ай бұрын
Unfortunately there isn't a good way to test SWR on a handheld antenna. The manufacturer takes the interaction with your radio, you holding it in your hand, and the proximity to your head into account when they design the rubber ducky style antennas. So even if you try to recreate it, by putting a SWR meter or Nano VNA on the antenna you change the equation. The simplest test is a range test for transmit and a signal strength test for receive. If they perform well under those tests then you can figure it's a good antenna. Several of the other channels (www.youtube.com/@HamRadioCrashCourse, www.youtube.com/@HamRadio2) have covered this, and it's covered in a video I have in my que. (but like about 8 other videos, I just can't seem to find the time to get completed and published) Also please make sure you are authorized to transmit on the frequency your testing on 150.9 is not a HAM band and is also not one of the "license free" frequencies either. I don't want anyone getting in trouble with the FCC. And the antennas your testing are probably tuned for the Ham Bands or FRS/GMRS/MURS channels, picking a random frequency to do a SWR test is going to give you bad readings. I hope that helps! Thanks for the question!
@nomadchad82432 ай бұрын
@@GetYourCommsUp thanks it didn't seem like good data as it would jump around a lot. We use hand helds a lot at work and more and more clients are showing up with cheap radios instead of the icoms and Kenwood's. I'm a helicopter mechanic and there has been a lot of We can't hear you , you can't hear me snags where the helicopter gets blamed . I think it's the proliferation of these radios with cheap antennas causing most of this trouble. I have a few now for testing and I'll be sure to test the one you hang in a tree , that's sounds like a good quick base station.
@ottomueller44253 ай бұрын
Thank you for showing this just got my radios today been scanning youtube for for how to videos I am reading the book that came with it but I like to see videos too.
@GetYourCommsUp3 ай бұрын
Glad you found it helpful! Congrats on the new radios, Ham radio is a great hobby and way to help your community!
@antipro65375 ай бұрын
Much better…thanks
@GetYourCommsUp5 ай бұрын
Your welcome! Glad it helped!
@Ineeadifferentusernamelol5 ай бұрын
Oh wow. I didn’t know they made a charger with the USB end. I have one designed for a wall socket. I got around this by buying the bigger battery packs. They are not only 3800mah but they are also DC connector compatible and the charger that comes with those is USB. I connect this directly to my battery pack/solar panel setup. I’m sure your panel has this built into it , but I run it externally. Sounds stupid but solar power is inconsistent. You want to use the solar panel to charge a battery pack. This is all the time, and then you use this battery pack to charge your devices whenever you need them. It’s the best way to utilize power out of these more portable sized panels anytime you want . Thanks
@GetYourCommsUp5 ай бұрын
Yep power banking the solar works too. I’ve got some Anker packs to do that as well. Along with my much larger solar system that runs my main radio station and charge system for the handhelds.
@GetYourCommsUp5 ай бұрын
And power is only inconsistent if there are clouds or other shading. Otherwise your panel should be able to produce consistent power output for the main part of the day.
@Ineeadifferentusernamelol5 ай бұрын
@@GetYourCommsUp oh yeah during the main day? Absolutely. I just use it this way because my panels are smaller. they are made for backpacking and it like folds on itself. It was 99$ but I bought it 4 years ago and it’s waterproof. The foldable ones aren’t so powerful in general, but nonetheless during the later afternoon and evening that’s when having the bigger foldables matter to me. I notice with the smaller ones during evening you just won’t be able to charge a power bank with them, when you would if you had a bigger panel. That’s the trade off. I regret not getting a larger one a lot of times.
@GetYourCommsUp5 ай бұрын
It’s always a trade off. And I tend to be a lot more energy conscious when backpacking with the smaller panels! Very good points! Bigger means more weight though. The newer panels are getting more efficient which helps.
@vTacoZz6 ай бұрын
What kind of range can you get from the roll up antenna or the abbrees?
@alanwithers80816 ай бұрын
The Baofeng radio does NOT require a reverse SMA, it is a SMA F (female). A reverse SMA has a pin instead of a socket and will not connect. Also the SMA male will fit but not work, resulting in a blown transmitter !
@GetYourCommsUp6 ай бұрын
You are partially correct. I worded it poorly. I should have said the radio was reversed from what the big three do. Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood all put the SMA female on the radio and the sma male on the antenna, where Baofeng puts the sma male on the radio and the sma female is on the antenna
@GetYourCommsUp6 ай бұрын
But thanks for the comment! That clarification should have been made earlier!
@nikitastpnytskyi78996 ай бұрын
Use the longer antenna if yours comes with one
@AntonioClaudioMichael7 ай бұрын
Sma Female sma male or a Bnc 1:10
@juliusschellhorn21467 ай бұрын
What adapter or connector doe i need to connect my antenna to my UV 9R Pro? or what antenna will fit ?
@alphanumeric15299 ай бұрын
cant hear you speaking.
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
Turn your volume up? All my videos should have the sound level set to about the half way point on most devices for people who aren’t hearing impaired. That should give lots of room to make it louder….. not sure if that helps at all….
@chipmorgan69519 ай бұрын
how do you set the A/B to match?
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
Push the A/B and set both to the same memory channel.
@geobeau700410 ай бұрын
So I have 200 acres of bush and need to set up my uv-5r in the house sometimes as a base station . Could a portable J pole antenna be run up to the second floor to increase range through a mile of bush ?? Thoughts.
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
Yep that should work well. I’ve hooked up to external antennas when out portable camping to do exactly that. It really helps with the range. Use good coax for the long run inside from the antenna and a short thin flexible jumper coax to hook the radio to the larger coax.
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
At a minimum use RG-8X for the run up to the antenna. LMR-400 is much better, but its thicker and a little more expensive. But if the run is longer than 50’ definitely use the LMR-400 or equivalent.
@kipnix877510 ай бұрын
Does that USB cable come with the radio? I can't remember.
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
The USB charging cable is something you have to order separately. There should be a link to it in the video description.
@t1czer10 ай бұрын
I just got short antenna for my radio and quality went to hell (from 2m up). Now i know why
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
Yeah the shorty antennas are only good for really close range.
@blackopal313810 ай бұрын
Hi. Can you tell me, are the models on AliExpress which claim 8W 10W and 100000mah batteries for real?? What is the max watts I should expect? ty
@GetYourCommsUp9 ай бұрын
A 100000mah battery would be about the size of a Kleenex box. So yeah they are lying about that. There are a few models that do produce 8 watts but the ones that claim 10 usually don’t produce even 8. Your always better off with a better antenna than more power. As more power into a bad antenna won’t go anywhere where as a little power into a efficient antenna will go quite a ways.
@normlambert11 ай бұрын
What adapter do I need to get from roll up antenna to the uv5r?
@GetYourCommsUp10 ай бұрын
It would depend on what the connector on the rollup antenna is. But most likely it’s a BNC. If thats the case then this adapter would work. amzn.to/3ROXFcU
@GirlCarpenter11 ай бұрын
New sub
@juliocosta581811 ай бұрын
Can't you make the menu time out off sooner, so that we can't see it at all
@mrheart4242 Жыл бұрын
I have the 18" abree antennas for hand held use. I have the 48.8" mounted to my hiking pack with the cable and carry pouch for the radio on the inside of thenpack and a microphone speaker on the left shoulder strap. Pluss the abree antennas seem to be horse safe when riding. The uv5ra seems to work best with the 48.8" mounted to the pack frame. The cheap uv5r with the 18". The extra watt seems to push the antenna better where the weaker radio cant.
@carlcarretas Жыл бұрын
Hi sir, what antenna can you recommend for Baofeng UV5R for 5 to 6kilometers? Thank you.
@jaredbattiest3840 Жыл бұрын
I know this video is older now. The link to the roll up antenna isn't really taking me to the right place. Any suggestions?
@richardkennedy815 Жыл бұрын
Would have liked to have seen SWR comparison.
@GetYourCommsUp Жыл бұрын
I actually just got a tool to show the SWR curves! I’ll see about finding some time this next week to film that one. That should be an easy one to get done.
@nats50 Жыл бұрын
That screen timeout is annoying. 😂
@GetYourCommsUp Жыл бұрын
Yeah I figured out how to change it for future videos. It’s in the settings. Didn’t even occur to me till after I had finished filming that video and was working on the editing.
@danielyoung3083 Жыл бұрын
I have a Baofeng AR-152 i cant figure out how to store a frequency or send a tone for repeater.
@B.91.10 Жыл бұрын
BNC female head are more common on scanners h r (hamdheld receivers) and SMA female are more common in h t's (handheld transceivers).
@HarryHamsterChannel Жыл бұрын
And some 350 pound basement dweller will rescue you?
@securemindsetofficial Жыл бұрын
Great job am doing research for this in usage for search and rescue. Would this also work for a handheld anytone 878 tnx!
@GetYourCommsUp Жыл бұрын
Yes any of the antennas that fit the Baofengs should work on the Anytones. I did find this paper that another ham put together that has a valid point on the length of the threaded portion though. hamradio.joomla.com/images/Anytone/Correct_Antenna_for_Anytone_868-878-878plus.pdf
@securemindsetofficial Жыл бұрын
@@GetYourCommsUp Awesome so much Thanks!
@hexdiagonal6450 Жыл бұрын
Love the UV-5R. super video the tip with the name and the frequenze under was the best one. If you could recomend a wired antenna for someting like an RV, camper, a 4x4 for more range, or in my case a baby carrier, so the kids get 446mhz hobby radios, I get the mobile tactical surpport babytruck, with the food and water and first aid kid, for the trips in animal parks. and I dont care if its a big one.
@MrIgnas-dr3zn Жыл бұрын
Short and simple Best video about programming huge thanks
@d2nasty696 Жыл бұрын
Why is the +- signs on the radio and what does it do? Is it good to have both on at the same time?
@gaza66 Жыл бұрын
Hello what's the best antenna for just receiving.
@ronaldbertin9455 Жыл бұрын
Good info thank you
@HarryHamsterChannel Жыл бұрын
Those long antennas are an attempt to squeeze more performance out of those radios than they are designed to deliver. I have two, one for each radio.. They're kinda silly, except under pretty uncommon conditions. The tree antenna looked interesting, but not very mobile. Don't people make fun of yours?
@stansmith40542 күн бұрын
😅The chicks like the bigger antennas.
@HarryHamsterChannel Жыл бұрын
It would be good to mention that without a repeater, that radio transceives effectively for about three blocks. They are continually represented as rescue or SHTF radios and that is a terrible disservice.
@GetYourCommsUp Жыл бұрын
You get the same distance that you’re going to get with any handheld radio, Yaesu, Kenwood or Motorola. Usually a couple miles in the woods. And yeah it can be as short as a few blocks in a city.
@Batto7210 Жыл бұрын
+1 for 21th menu option....didn't know
@Cusackshike Жыл бұрын
Great video and info Bob! I just got a Baofeng and made the changes you recommended. One issue I'm having is that when i depress the handheld it switches channels to the lower frequency on the screen. Is there any way to disable this? Thanks!
@HarryHamsterChannel Жыл бұрын
Change the TDR-AB Function, 34.
@user-np9el6ho9i Жыл бұрын
can I turn off flashlight button in settings, that I don't turn on it accidentally?
@ErikThiart Жыл бұрын
Make more videos please
@sergiozammel8261 Жыл бұрын
Hi Baofang Bob, KC7GTQ , thanks for the vid , I"m a greehorn here, so far I"ve found the on off switch, I promise to keep off the ham bands until i"m Kosher gotta start somewhere. Anyhoo thanks for the shpeel. thumbs up..(it was the bagpipes at the end that got me.)