So I am totally new to armature radio and am currently studying for my license. I bought a Baofeng 5rv2+ radio, hoping to at least listen in on emergency calls. But I am really struggling with how to program it and enter the frequencies. I have the standard antenna and a longer whip antenna. I live in a small very remote town, but we do have 1 repeater here. I have been doing so much reading that my mind is spinning and I am almost ready to give up on the whole thing.
Do I need to program in the repeater before I can listen in or is that just to transmit?
If I do need to program it in the how would I do that? Using fake number as ex. (888.46250)
The offset is -5.0 MHz but my radio does not have that frequency setting and I can't manually add it.
It also says it's DMR enabled if that means anything.
Again using a fake frequency as ex. (888.99000) For emergency services how do I enter that? Just drop the last 2 zeros?
I am so sorry for sounding so ignorant about this all, I'm not as savoy on things as a younger person would be.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
Rebecca
Do I need to program in the repeater before I can listen in or is that just to transmit?
If I do need to program it in the how would I do that? Using fake number as ex. (888.46250)
The offset is -5.0 MHz but my radio does not have that frequency setting and I can't manually add it.
It also says it's DMR enabled if that means anything.
Again using a fake frequency as ex. (888.99000) For emergency services how do I enter that? Just drop the last 2 zeros?
I am so sorry for sounding so ignorant about this all, I'm not as savoy on things as a younger person would be.
Thank you in advance for any help you can give.
Rebecca