Baofeng UV-5R HT - thoughts?

[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