Spankymedic7
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Do you have a part number?
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Baofeng Baofeng UV32/DM32
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KI4LIV
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Link to the holster please
I put my hands on a Motorola APX PMLN7732A holster, with the DM32/UV32 this weekend. While the DM32/UV32 will fit into the holster, the radio pops out of the bottom of the holster, as the "wings" on the side of the radio do not match that of the APX6000/APX8000.
The radio will stay in the holster until there is any downward force, such as bumping it with your elbow, or jumping off a curb, at which point it pops out of the bottom and slams into the ground.
The radio will stay in the holster until there is any downward force, such as bumping it with your elbow, or jumping off a curb, at which point it pops out of the bottom and slams into the ground.
Any word on this? I would like to know this too.
Has anyone tried to make a case on a 3D printer?
I have the Motorola PMLN7901A holster. It fits the DM-32 with no modifications. This is with the speaker facing out, which is the way a real APX is supposed to go in the holster. A lot of people seem to want to put the radio in the holster with the screen facing out, and it will never fit that way, unless maybe if you were to hack the holster up with a Dremel.
K6GBW
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I'd love to have Motorola build a radio that looks really weird, like maybe a square one or something, then we can wait and see how long it take for China to steel it and make a copy.
I am in Australia and have recently purchased the Baofeng DM-32 radio but the bandwidth limitations posed a problem as our CB band is in the 477Mhz range.
I recently found this Russian site that has a firmware .bin file that was able to allow an expansion of the usable bandwidth 23-136Mhz and 220-520Mhz.
The new Firmware is dm32.01.02.46 which expands the frequencies.
I have updated my two radios and it seems to work vey well with even allowing the 27Mhz AM band programming (but not tested) although the 477Mhz has been tested and works well although you loose the startup picture but I changed this to show Voltage instead.
The existing CPS does not allow you to change the bandwidth in the program outside the listed 136-174Mhz 400-470Mhz but if you export to csv file and then update the frequencies and import the csv file back to the radio it all works fine and then the CPS will reflect the changes when you Read to and from radio.
Link to the site for the .bin file is Просмотр сообщений - Koshak
As far as I can see this is a great radio for the price with a lot more to offer I suspect.
I recently found this Russian site that has a firmware .bin file that was able to allow an expansion of the usable bandwidth 23-136Mhz and 220-520Mhz.
The new Firmware is dm32.01.02.46 which expands the frequencies.
I have updated my two radios and it seems to work vey well with even allowing the 27Mhz AM band programming (but not tested) although the 477Mhz has been tested and works well although you loose the startup picture but I changed this to show Voltage instead.
The existing CPS does not allow you to change the bandwidth in the program outside the listed 136-174Mhz 400-470Mhz but if you export to csv file and then update the frequencies and import the csv file back to the radio it all works fine and then the CPS will reflect the changes when you Read to and from radio.
Link to the site for the .bin file is Просмотр сообщений - Koshak
As far as I can see this is a great radio for the price with a lot more to offer I suspect.
I have the hacked firmware that's supposed to allow 220 to 520MHz. I can confirm that it will transmit and receive in the 220 MHz ham band, but I have not yet measured the transmit power, and the receive sensitivity seem to be poor.
It will now receive in the 470-471 range, which before it stopped at 470.000.
It will now receive in the 470-471 range, which before it stopped at 470.000.
Generally everybody is well aware that the radios are 100% ham radios and nothing else. Of course there are one or two "special" people who don't understand this. UHF CB is (or was) the name used to describe our local AUS/NZ services and the US versions I've always referred to as FRS/GRMS. And other places in the world with more specific descriptions.
Here yes UHF CB is analogue. There have been a few people running P25 simplex on it for ****s and giggles. There's no reason why DMR also can't become popular, it's more just the management or things like IDs and groups etc. Not something I'm really familiar with yet.
We have a very high density of morons on UHF CB channels and you can of course imagine all the ways it could go wrong, or right.
Then there is reality: UV5R radios are already very popular and the UHF CB community has supported programming of the radios very well for noobs and for the most part they get used on our 80 channels with very few problems. Most people are aware of the legalities which aren't enforced and were only ever in place to make the use of the service fool proof. Now days the type approval that acheived this is more of a protection for the big companies like Icom to charge $450 for a radio which a $50 Baofeng can also do. Yes we're well aware of Icom's quality, but the compliance no longer protects the service, it protects those who can afford to pay.
For me personally, being able to use my ham radio for UHF CB and meet the standard in every other way is ideal. One radio does both.
In the sports flying community we can have european and japanese pilots using 2m as their chatter frequency. When they come to Australia they continue to use 2m illegally. They could buy a $400 UHF CB for the short time they are here, but if they have a baofeng, it's pretty easy and much better for everybody if they just programmed in a UHF CB channel. Everybody is a winner.
But things are changing in the sports flying community. Locally we all use UHF CB. We talk, air to air and air to ground and often there can be over 200 people across several channels. There is a push to get this "air traffic" into the air band. Of course having done this 30 years ago might have been desired but costs...
Worse still is that there isn't any real need for these slow moving sport aircraft to make calls. It doesn't hurt when it's just one on a CTAF, but radio channels become more congested than their sky. Carrying another radio is more weight and more things to physically go wrong.
Monitoring the airband so they can hear the fast moving traffic while being able to talk UHF CB to each other over a very short distance in the air is the goal. You can also see that being able to TX airband would be handy, but it's really not that big a deal. They're trying to avoid air traffic and not make unnecessary calls.
And at the end of the day, you don't want idiots to have easy access to airband even though that is kind of already the case. The legit demand for it is there and if the chinese decide to make it happen, already having a plan to manage it will help prevent problems while facilitating good spectrum use.
For me 477MHz TX and Airband Rx is good enough. Having that in my ham radio makes it all even better. Airband TX is a feature I'd legitimately use in a similar way to 477MHz. And digtal modulation gives me something to consider that might have unforeseen benefits.
I bought one and tried it... It doesn't fit the XX-32 radio.
In the US, the old UHF-T Band (470-512 MHz) is used by some municipalities for public safety communications.
The advantage for someone that wants to listen in that range, is the ability to not have to carry multiple radios. The other advantage, is that the reception of my, as some people call them, CCRs, is much better than my Whistler and Uniden scanners. We were about 20 miles from home the other day shopping and I was able to listen to a fire channel from home with my Retevis RT-3S with a Smiley BNC antenna, that I could not hear with my Whistler TRX-1, using a mag mount, rooftop antenna. Swapped antennas with the same result. With the OpenGD77 CPS & firmware, the radio scans just as fast as my scanners. Since I am no longer an active FF/EMT, I am not licensed to talk on these channels, so all of my radios are programmed to receive only. I can't vouch for how they transmit in this frequency range.
The disadvantage, is that radios like the RT-3S are not capable of P25 700-800 MHz trunking, so in theory, if I want to listen to that, I have to carry a second radio. In the car, I have multiple radios anyway.
Done on YouTube, and extremely low SE. Baofeng finally has a decent radio for an CCR!
Baofengs web site has a new picture tool program to upload images as start up pics on the DM32. Instructions are straight forward. Also in the main CPS software under Option Feature change the power on/off - power on interface to "Power On Picture".
rf_patriot200
Active Member
From the videos I've seen, the UV-32 {analog} Doesn't pass spurious emissions test on vhf at all, but apparently the DM-32 does.
This image has been floating around and I'm pretty sure it's nothing special. You can easily expand the allowed ranges within the CPS application.
Be careful with this mod. I could not get it break squelch on 220 mhz repeaters. It also has one heck of harmonic on 70 cm looks like exactly twice the 1.25 frequency.
nerdplanet
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Made a CHIRP to DM32uv CPS tool to Convert CSV files from chirp to DM32 CPS CSV file , so you can take the frequencies you have on a chirp file to the radio.
GitHub - mrshadowsys/Quansheng-DM32UV-Chirp-to-DM32-channel-list-: This is a Python script to import CSV Channel lists from Chirp into the Baofeng DM-32Uv CPS software
GitHub - mrshadowsys/Quansheng-DM32UV-Chirp-to-DM32-channel-list-: This is a Python script to import CSV Channel lists from Chirp into the Baofeng DM-32Uv CPS software
I will amend what I said in post #49. I have since found it WILL NOT transmit or receive in the 220MHz ham band. Yes, it will display the frequencies, but it transmits at exactly twice the displayed frequency. My testing shows that it will not receive between 174 and about 350 MHz, where it begins to receive again. It can also receive above 470 MHz. Some have reported that it operates at 27 MHz CB band, but I have not tested this.
Baofeng released a new version of the CPS -- 1.41. It gives a false positive on MS Defender when installing the application. Looks like they fixed at least a couple of my reported issues. Firmware version is unchanged.
