Baofeng UV-5R acting stupid....

[BrettL]

I don't have the software for this unit so I manual program it. It's not really all that hard to manually program it and I've had it for 3 weeks now and got really accustom to the settings.

I go to frequency mode and program the frequency of the repeater, then the 600Hz offset + or - and store it to a channel. I have squelch at 0. Battery save set 0. Vox off, wide band, BCL off. T- CTCS to whatever the charts say.

The thing has been acting weird. At first I scanned 90 frequencies for 2 weeks just to listen. Everything was fine. THEN I GOT MY LISCENSE!

I re-programmed it so I could transmit and get my first contact. It worked. Then I added more frequencies using local repeater charts. It would not talk on channel mode and in frequency mode it would not even key up. So I switched from A mode to B mode and programmed the frequencies to a channel and it talked fine in frequency mode or channel mode.

I reset the unit to see if I could get A mode to work correctly with same settings and it worked fine. The next day I had no receive and people could hear me. Then A mode stopped working again. Would not key up.

Some of the settings change after I store them. For example offset 000.600 changes to 000.000 for no reason. Sometimes the C-CTCS resets from 131.8HZ to off . This thing is so unstable. As of now I have one frequency in it stored in A and B mode. It will Key and Receive in both modes also channel and frequency mode.

What seems to be the problem?

 

[nd5y]

Offset only works in VFO (frequency) mode.
You can't store the offset in memory channels. You have to store the transmit and receive settings separately.
First you have to program the receive frequency and tone to the memory channel, then you program the transmit frequency and tone.

You can't change what is in memory channels after that.
If you go back to VFO mode and try to save something else to the same memory channel it will only change the transmit frequency.
If you want to change something you have to delete the memory and start over.

Read and follow the exact instuctions at Baofeng Pofung Programming Memories UV5R UV82 GT3

 

[BrettL]

I notice in VFO mode I can talk and receive. It also shows the shift above he numbers.

When I'm in channel mode it also will talk and receive but don't display the shift.

The link you provided me is broken or down. Sometimes in A it just don't work. In B it works good. Sometimes it don't receive at all but will light up and show a incoming signal. No audio on the recieving signal with squelch at 0 no white noise or static.

I'll give it another go and if it don't work this time I will try getting the software to work. I have to purchase it or find where I can get the program from someone and just buy the cable.

 

[WyoDuner]

Well, use Chirp (free) to program and buy the programming cable - it' under $10 on Amazon. That will make your life a lot easier. The Baofeng radios aren't the easiest thing to program by hand. The Miklor.com site referenced above in second post has a ton of useful info too.

 

[BrettL]

I have looked over the internet and found that miklor site. That is what I went by. I am still doing something wrong in that area when programming.

Here is what I do....I enter freq of the repeater while in frequency mode

2. I add the offset frequency

3. I add the transmit T-CTCS tone.

4. I add to channel.

I never mess with the R-CTCS. When I read the repeater charts the freq's that don't have a tone I turn the T-CTCS off. I make all adjustments before I save to channel. If I forget something I delete channel and start over.

Sometimes the lady's voice will say transmitting or receiving memory. This may be where I am going wrong. Probably something simple but I'm learning. If I can get it done correctly I will call myself stupid instead of the boafeng.lol

 

[popnokick]

The UV-B5 and B6 are a little more suited to ham use in that regard... both of them have a Repeater Offset TX setting, and the setting can be saved to the memory channel.

 

[77Impala]

This guys video may help in programming the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56PvtAqacz8

 

[77Impala]

Tried to post the video differently and still did not work as I wanted.

 

[KC9HI]

I don't have the software for this unit so I manual program it. It's not really all that hard to manually program it and I've had it for 3 weeks now and got really accustom to the settings.

I go to frequency mode and program the frequency of the repeater, then the 600Hz offset + or - and store it to a channel. I have squelch at 0. Battery save set 0. Vox off, wide band, BCL off. T- CTCS to whatever the charts say.

The thing has been acting weird. At first I scanned 90 frequencies for 2 weeks just to listen. Everything was fine. THEN I GOT MY LISCENSE!

I re-programmed it so I could transmit and get my first contact. It worked. Then I added more frequencies using local repeater charts. It would not talk on channel mode and in frequency mode it would not even key up. So I switched from A mode to B mode and programmed the frequencies to a channel and it talked fine in frequency mode or channel mode.

I reset the unit to see if I could get A mode to work correctly with same settings and it worked fine. The next day I had no receive and people could hear me. Then A mode stopped working again. Would not key up.

Some of the settings change after I store them. For example offset 000.600 changes to 000.000 for no reason. Sometimes the C-CTCS resets from 131.8HZ to off . This thing is so unstable. As of now I have one frequency in it stored in A and B mode. It will Key and Receive in both modes also channel and frequency mode.

What seems to be the problem?

When you program a channel it goes into a bank of 128 channels. Then this bank of channels is then accessible by A and B. If it is available in one, it must be available in the other. It if works in one, it must work in the other.

Why would you set squelch to 0? Except for the fact that you programmed CTCSS, the radio would always hiss because the squelch would be constantly open. There is no known way to inhibit TX of a channel that was programmed using the keypad. But in your case if you were to program the memories with BCL (busy channel lockout) enabled, with the squelch always being wide open, the radio would think that the channel was always "busy" and would refuse to transmit.

SFT-D and OFFSET only have a meaning in VFO (frequency) mode. They are not used and do not work in MR (channel) mode. When you program a repeater channel, you must enter the RX frequency into the VFO and write it to an empty memory. Then you must enter the TX frequency into the VFO and write it to the same memory channel. SFT-D can be set to OFF and OFFSET set to 000.000 (or they can be set completely wrong for the channel being programmed) and you can program a working repeater channel.

Same thing for CTCSS. If that radio has MR mode selected, then the R-CTCS and T-CTCS menus are read only. The menus with let you go through the motions, but you cannot change the R-CTCS or T-CTCS settings from MR mode. Once you program a memory, only T-DCS, T-CTCS and the TX frequency can be updated. To change any other setting, the memory must be erased and programmed again from scratch.

You might want to take a look at the Reference for UV-5R Menus.

Jim KC9HI