Baofeng UV-5R HT - thoughts?

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Which repeater are you trying to hit and have you tried any of the UHF repeaters in the county? I sometimes have better luck hitting the UHF repeaters when using the short stock Baofeng rubber duck.

https://www.repeaterbook.com/repeate...id=39&loc=Lake

Which model do you have... as far as I know the UV-5R only has 2 power settings 1 & 5 Watts. My BF-8HP has a third setting for outputs of 7 W on UHF and 8 W on VHF.

Yes, manual programming is a PITA.

jr

I am trying to access the Painesville 147.81-.21 repeater, N8BC, 110.9 Hz subaudible tone.

I have the Baofeng UV-5R which, as you said, only offers two transmitter power options, one and five watts.

Doggone it, if my UV-5R covered 220 MHz (unfortunately, it doesn't; it only covers 2m and UHF), I could try to get into the repeater here in Fairport Harbor which operates in that band.

That's a good one. I've lived here in Fairport Harbor sixteen years, and never knew, until just now, there was a 220-MHz repeater in town--just a hop, skip and a jump from my apartment to boot.

BTW, what is your amateur callsign, and how long have you been in the hobby? I was first licensed as WN8NHV in 1972, passed Technician three years later, and General ten years after that; I've been General class WB8NHV ever since mid-1985.

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I am trying to access the Painesville 147.81-.21 repeater, N8BC, 110.9 Hz subaudible tone.

I have the Baofeng UV-5R which, as you said, only offers two transmitter power options, one and five watts.

snip!

BTW, what is your amateur callsign, and how long have you been in the hobby?

Are you sure that repeater is active? it doesn't seem to be on the list that I linked to.

I misspoke about the power... I have a UV-B5 which has 1 W and 5 Watts... I think that the UV-5R has 1 W and 4 Watts.

I have been a ham only a little over a year, passed tech and general on the same day... fun way to spend a rainy Saturday morning! For security reasons, I don't list my call letters on a very open public forum, but my prefix is KG7.

73s,
jr