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BF-F8HP CTCSS tone scanning removed?!

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I ordered a BF-F8HP in early September. So far what I would expect from a $70 radio, however I was recently disappointed to learn CTCSS tone scanning was removed from the firmware despite BaoFeng advertising it in both product manual and web site specs. I noticed this functionality did not work when following manual instructions and contacted BaoFeng. They indicated the feature was removed from software on all their radios.

Does anyone have any background here? Was there a bug? Will it be added back into firmware?

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I'm not surprised that they removed the feature. I have several friends who owned the previous version of the radio and none of them had any success with getting that feature to work. It would show the search in progress but would never lock onto the tone.
 
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atod said:
I ordered a BF-F8HP in early September. So far what I would expect from a $70 radio, however I was recently disappointed to learn CTCSS tone scanning was removed from the firmware despite BaoFeng advertising it in both product manual and web site specs. I noticed this functionality did not work when following manual instructions and contacted BaoFeng. They indicated the feature was removed from software on all their radios.

Does anyone have any background here? Was there a bug? Will it be added back into firmware?

Thanks,
Nick
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Discussion on the Yahoo! baofeng_uv5r group today seems to indicate that this change came about with the introduction of the N5R-20 (radios with 2 power levels) and the N5R-30 (radios with 3 power levels) firmware.

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baayers said:
I'm not surprised that they removed the feature. I have several friends who owned the previous version of the radio and none of them had any success with getting that feature to work. It would show the search in progress but would never lock onto the tone.
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This has always worked great for me. You have to remember that if you are trying to find the CTCSS tone or DCS code that is used to access a repeater, you have to "scan" the transmissions of a station using the repeater, the the output of the repeater itself. If you aren't close enough to that station to pick up a solid signal directly, then it probably isn't going to work. That isn't the fault of the radio doing the scanning. When I do it, I'v always had personal possession of the radio that I am scanning.

Jim KC9HI
 
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