Radioddity RD-5R or Baofeng 2018 V3 DM-5R Receiving above 470 MHz

[rgchristy]

Under General Settings, I have:

Repeater STE = 5
Repeater end Delay = 2

For channels with CTCSS, I have STE set at:

120 or 240 for Motorola systems
180 for all others

For CSQ, I have Non STE set to freq, but it doesn't seem to help much.

I don't seem to have much problems with DCS. It defaults to frequency, anyway.

Like I said, I'm still tinkering, but it is getting better.

 

[mitaux8030]

To answer the original question: will the RD-5R work above 470 and up to 512 MHz?
Yes it will, all the way up to 520 MHz, quite well actually. At least it does on my early production RD-5R.

 

[INDY72]

To answer the original question: will the RD-5R work above 470 and up to 512 MHz?
Yes it will, all the way up to 520 MHz, quite well actually. At least it does on my early production RD-5R.

Does one need to pop up the lower end on UHF to match the upper 520 MHz, as most radios do the split on that? 400 to 470, 450 to 520?

 

[rgchristy]

I have mine set to 400 - 520MHz

I don't listen to anything below 450, so I can't tell you how the reception is, but 500 - 512 MHz is better than my scanners.

 

[rgchristy]

I just ran across the Radioddity DMR Programming Tips pdf file on Roger Clark's website. It looks pretty comprehensive, although I haven't read it completely, yet.

https://jackson-1.s3.amazonaws.com/Radioddity DMR Programming Tips.pdf

It's available on the radioddity website, but it takes you to Facebook, which I don't use.

Take Care,

Rich

 

[rgchristy]

I only have that on Ham and Rail freqs.... If you do find a solution do share as that is the only real issue I have, as well as many others have with this radio.. That old school kick your ear off squelch tail.

I just installed the new v2.1.6 firmware and from what I can tell, the squelch tail is almost completely gone. I've only been listening for the past 1/2 hour, so I'm going to keep listening.

https://rd-5r.s3.amazonaws.com/RD-5R Firmware V2.1.6 & Program Software V1.0.0.4.zip

Take Care,

Rich

 

[Gadgetmall]

Is it possible to program, even if for receive only, frequencies between 470 & 512 MHz. I've looked at the CPS and it appears so, but I was wondering if someone could please try it on an actual radio. That's the only thing holding me back from purchasing one.

I've also contacted all of the eBay sellers and they don't have a clue. One tells me to use CHIRP, which I know is not possible. The rest can't even tell me where to get the CPS.

I believe that both radios are the same.

Thanks,

Rich

Not sure on those radios but the Uv-5r V2+ and some UV-5rs do recieve and transmit on modified frequencies. I have 3 uv5r radios and all of them can recieve vhf as low as 122-mzh and transmit as low as 127mzh. The high range on vhf recieve is 178.997. Transmit 178.000. Also it's a dual band radio and the uhf low is 382.000 it Also transmits on 382.00 the high recieveand transmitter is 566.9975mzh. The only thing stopping frequencies lower and higher is the antenna wavelength needs to match lower and higher frequencies. I have one older uv5r it tunes recieve down to 110.000to180.000 recieve and 300 to 600 uhf recieve with the antenna length matched to its oscillator.

 

[rgchristy]

They both can if you enter the advanced mode of the CPS and change the range.

 

[richardbritt]

Hi everyone. I just bought a DM-5R V3 2018. I can't figure out how to get a repeater I programmed in vfo A to save in memory as a channel manually. The version 2 of the radio has a menu 23 which is channel memory but not the 2018 version. Any suggestions? Thanks. 73 Richard W4MCD

 

[rgchristy]

It's probably best not to think of the DM-5R v3 as a DM-5R. The v3 radio is the same as a Radioddity RD-5R or GD-77.

I don't use my radios for transmitting, so I can't help you with the repeater portion, but there are a few links above in this post that might help, or at least give you a starting point.