UV-5R question

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

I apologize if this has already been covered, but a search didn't turn up anything. ( it's possible I wasn't wording my search properly )

Took the plunge about a week ago and bought a UV-5R. So far it's been a pretty good little radio. I do have one question/problem however, that I can't seem to find the answer to. Is there any way (if it's possible at all), when I power up my UV-5R, to have it show how much charge is left in the battery? My KG-UVD1P and UV-3R show it, but I can't seem to do it on the 5R.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

SSSG

 

[K9WG]

Not that I know of. I have not found anything in the manual (such as it is) or any menu items.

eta: Might check out the UV-5R Yahoo group...... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baofeng_uv5r/

 

[NWI_Scanner_Guy]

Not that I know of. I have not found anything in the manual (such as it is) or any menu items.

That's what I was afraid of

eta: Might check out the UV-5R Yahoo group...... baofeng_uv5r : Baofeng UV-5R

I did. Posted my question there last night; didn't get any replies so I thought I'd toss it out here as well.

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

 

[K9WG]

No problem. The more I play with it the more I realize that it lacks a lot of features found in ham radios. Then again I believe the original design was to be a business band radio.

 

[kaba]

Which firmware version does your UV-5 have? I have a battery level indicator in the upper right of the display on mine. It seems to be fairly accurate.

 

[K9WG]

You are correct, the battery indicator does work well however I believe the OP was asking if the battery voltage is displayed at power up like some Amateur Radio handhelds do. Also the problem with the indicator on the UV-5r is it is too small. Us visually challenged people can't see it....

 

[kaba]

Yes it is very small and my 62 year old eyes struggle. At least it has one though. I wish my PSR-310 had some type of battery level indication showing. It is a great scanner other than that.

 

[WA3CSX]

I too have a question about this radio,I can't seem to get any of the ham repeaters(ie offset or tones) to go from vfo to memory mode.Every time I program it in memory mode it's only simplex frequency,not sure if I have something turned on or if something is suppose to be turned off.I know this is a very broad question,especially without know what is onor off in my menu.ANY HELP PLEASE.

 

[K9WG]

You have to program the receive frequency first then the transmit frequency. First enter in the receive frequency. Program it into an empty memory slot. Then enter the transmit frequency and store it into the same memory slot.

 

[WA3CSX]

OOOHHHH OK thnaks a bunch.wow would have never figured that out.

 

[kayn1n32008]

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So a friend checked one of these out on his spectrum analyzer... Great receiver... Transmitter on the other hand not so good. @146.5200 The radio he tested was putting out around 35mW @ 1172.26MHz. In other words Transmit with in a couple of metres of a GPS raciever and you will completely desense the reciever!!!

At every harmonic this radio was putting out significant levels of power. Unfortunatly I cannot upload the PDF he sent me from my BB.

I will forward it to a friend to post to this thread.

 

[SCPD]

I connected my new UV-5R to my spectrum analyzer and ran some tests.

For those that want to see how the UV-5R performs .. check out the attached PDF file.

 

[BH4JTJ]

UV5R in China only need 200 RMB can own, you can't buy MOTOROLA's radio? My radio is MOTOROLA MCS2000, GP328, HT1000, system saber!