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Now let’s fix the dreadful manual by getting you a very much better manual. Click the link to download an February 2013
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Okay, so now you have an uptodate radio and a great manual and keyboard (as in ‘the keyboard on the radio
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This assumes you have already purchased a programming cable for the radio that connects between a
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Here’s a great guide to what the various CHIRP fields mean for programming the channels.
4. Choosing Your Frequencies
Now for the fun part. There are 128 memories in the radio, and you can load frequencies of your choice into
them. But what frequencies will you load in?
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channels, that would be perfectly legal. It is only if/when you transmit that you possibly trespass to the dark
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The good news is that the CHIRP software has these frequencies already available for you to copy in to your
radio. Go to Radio – Import from Stock Config and select the frequencies you want and decide which channels
to import them to.
You’ll see that CHIRP has the eight GMRS repeater frequency pairs in its stock configuration. That is great for
using the radios with GMRS repeaters, but if you wanted to transmit/receive on the frequency paired channels
in simplex mode (ie both transmitting and receiving on the same frequency) you’d want to import the
frequencies a second time and edit them to simplex using the transmit frequency, then a third time and edit
them to simplex using the receive frequency.
Note also the first seven of the FRS frequencies are the shared FRS/GMRS frequencies.
Our article Explaining the Confusion of Frequencies and Channels with FRS & GMRS Radios provides some
muchneeded clarification on these matters.
It is helpful to have all these frequencies programmed if you want to scan/monitor the frequency bands to pick
up on other people nearby. But if you’re only interested in using the radios for your own use, then you don’t
need every last frequency entered and maybe it keeps things simpler to just have a few frequencies stored in
memory.
4.2 Ham Frequencies
Find out who your local frequency coordinator group is. If you have a copy of the helpful and annual (but not
always uptodate or complete) ARRL Repeater Directory you’ll find listings to local groups in the front; a bit of
‘detective work’ through Google and the ARRL site will often get you to the appropriate groups as well.
Hopefully the frequency coordinating group has a website and hopefully you can download a set of repeater
frequencies from them.
The CHIRP software also links you to some online services (Radio – Import from Data Source) that have many
of the local frequencies already in suitable format for you to automatically transfer over to your radio. If you do
this, it pays to check the data with the local frequency coordinator group if possible – generally the local
frequency coordinator group has the latest and best information to refer to.
You’ll find it helpful to understand which repeaters you can access, and you’ll want to build up an understanding
of the coverage areas of such repeaters. In the event of an emergency that does not immediately destroy such
repeaters, they will be one of your preferred means of communicating with other members of your group,
especially if some of the group are not within direct/simplex range.
Usually the repeater listings tell you approximately where the repeaters are located, so that gives you a good
helpful start to understanding which ones might be relevant – both around your local normal area where you live
and work, and on any routes from there to where your retreat is, and of course, repeaters in/around your
retreat.
It is hard to know whether repeaters will remain operable or not in any sort of emergency scenario. If the
repeater is only powered from mains/grid power (perhaps with an hour or two of UPS battery as backup for brief
power cuts) then clearly, as soon as it loses power, it goes down, and it stays down until mains power is
restored.
But if the repeater is solarpowered (and an appreciable number are) then it is much more resilient to
interruptions in the normal world. You should find out about your local repeaters, and maybe join the
appropriate groups/clubs that own and maintain them, and subtly lobby for making the repeater grid
independent.
You’ll actually find you have a fair measure of support for such concepts. While not all hams are preppers,
many enjoy the thought of being able to participate and assist in minor regional emergencies – temporary Level
1 type scenarios, and within that concept, the idea of making a repeater as robust as possible will find plenty of
support.
4.3 Other ‘Interesting’ Local Frequencies to Monitor
You can use resources such as www.radioreference.com and www.scannerstuff.com and www.mygmrs.com
and www.interceptradio.com to get lists of local frequencies used variously by public safety, local, state and
federal government, and all types of businesses from the local fastfood joint to mall security companies and
just about every other type of radio user imaginable.
It can be interesting listening to some of these frequencies, and you might think of some tactical advantages to
being able to monitor some of them as well – both while life is comfortable and normal, and in an uncertain
future if things start to go suddenly very wrong.
However, remember that these radios are not fully featured when it comes to advanced scanning, and they
can’t monitor digital or trunked frequencies at all. If these are things you want to monitor (and increasingly the
more ‘interesting’ radio channels are on digital/trunked systems), you’ll need other equipment.
At the risk of stating the obvious, just because you have a radio that is theoretically capable of listening and
transmitting on any particular frequency, that does not mean that you are allowed to do so.
4.4 Weather Frequencies
Not a separate function, but an often overlooked capability, is to program in the NOAA Weather Radio
channels.
There are seven of them, in the VHF band. If you are getting low on spare channels, you could just program in
the one or two for the areas you expect to be (the preceding link takes you to pages that list the locations and
coverage areas for each transmitter); otherwise, it is easy to put all seven into your radio (and CHIRP has them
preloaded to copy over – go to the Radio – Import from Stock Config option).
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5. A Note on Frequencies
The Baofeng UV5R series of radios will receive and transmit on FM modulated VHF frequencies between 136
174MHZ and on FM modulated UHF frequencies between 400480/520MHz.
It will also receive only (but not transmit) on FM modulated VHF frequencies between 65 – 108 MHz.
First, to explain the UHF range. Many times the radios might be specified as having an upper range of 480
MHz, but (at least for the more recent firmware units) the upper range is actually 520 MHz. Trust us on this –
we’ve tested to confirm.
Second, there is a problem with very inexpensive radios being freely available. Sometimes people buy them
who, ahem, probably shouldn’t. We regularly see ridiculous claims from people on websites, saying that they
have managed to modify their UV5R radios to receive (and presumably transmit, too) on other frequencies –
not just slight extensions of the official frequency ranges, but all the way up to 1 GHz and down to only a few
MHz.
We’ve also read other people saying they have modified their radios to receive AM as well as FM signals.
Both these types of claims are physically impossible, and are outright utter nonsense. We can’t comment as to
the mental health of people who make such claims, but the unavoidable electrical and electronic reality is that –
no matter what you can get the display on the front of the radios to show – they will not work outside the
frequency ranges they have been designed to operate on. We will concede that with increasingly poor
performance, maybe you could extend the two bands by about 5% – 10% at each end, but beyond that, the
circuitry just will not work.
And as for receiving AM signals on an FM radio, that’s also not electrically/electronically possible.
We all like to get something for nothing, but don’t risk damaging your radios by trying these nonsense
modifications. They can’t work, they don’t work, and they won’t work.
6. Broadcast FM Radio
In addition to being able to transmit and receive on its two bands, the Baofeng UV5R has a bonus feature. It
also has a good quality extended FM broadcast band receiver in it, which allows you to receive but not transmit
on both the regular broadcasting FM band (88108 MHz) and also on the 6588MHz frequencies too.
There’s not a lot of activity in the 6588MHz part of the spectrum (that’s putting it mildly) and the radio only
tunes in 100 kHz steps in this mode. However, the regular FM radio capability is convenient.
You can’t store FM channels in the radio’s memories, but you can use the scan function to jump from one radio
station to the next.
7. Some Settings to Consider
The radio has a lot of configurable options, either through keyboard programming or via the CHIRP software.
Most items can be left at their default setting, and the per channel items for each channel can be configured as
is needed.
There are a few settings to consider, however.
7.1 Squelch
The squelch setting can be varied from 0 (squelch off, you get all background noise all the time) up to 9 (very
high squelch, only strong signals punch through).
The radio is set to a default value of 5. Different people have different approaches and opinions about squelch,
and you should adopt an approach that reflects your needs.
If you only want to use your radio for local communications, then set the squelch level for one or two numbers
lower than the level necessary to ensure that it always ‘opens’ when receiving signals from the furtherest away
place with the poorest radio signals that you want to receive from. By having a higher number squelch setting,
you’ll be less troubled by other weak signals, especially ones that many times are too weak to really
understand.
But if you want to hear the other guy’s transmissions before he hears yours, and if you want to be sure to pick
up even very weak signals, just for the knowing that there are other people out there, even if still some distance
away, then set your squelch down to 1 or 2.
We generally have our squelch setting at 1, and find that we can understand most of the transmissions that
come in. We want to know who else is using radios out there, hopefully before they know about us.
7.2 Dual Frequency
If you have a lot of people in your group, and if you are using your radios a lot, it might be sensible to have
multiple channels, plus a master emergency channel. Then you could have everyone in one team using one
channel, and everyone in a different team or tasking unit using a different channel, and the two different sets of
users not interfering with each other.
At the same time, you’d also have both teams having a second global channel on their radios, so if there was
any sort of emergency or community wide broadcast, everyone would get it on their second channel.
7.3 CTCSS, DCS, etc
There are ways to code the radios so they send specific inaudible tones or other types of signaling with every
message they send out, and also so they will only play through the speaker messages they receive with specific
tones on them, too.
This is a very dangerous and widely misunderstood set of capabilities. They are useful and sometimes
necessary when using a repeater – repeaters are commonly configured so they will only rebroadcast a
message if the incoming message has an activating tone associated with it. The repeaters are configured this
way as much to cut down on repeater to repeater interference as for any other reason, although they are
sometimes also used as a small measure of accessrestriction too.
But for regular use within your community members, adding these types of tones seems to often result in
someone’s radio being misconfigured and the person not hearing any messages, and his own messages in
turn also not being heard.
So generally we recommend you keep all these settings off.
But there is one possible alternative factor to consider. If you were to have any opposing force take one of your
radios, they’d then be able to monitor and even possibly jam your communications within your group. The radio
they’d have seized would have all your channels programmed into it.
If you configured vulnerabletobeingtaken radios to use some type of tone signaling, then this would
(hopefully) not be intuitively obvious to the people who stole the radio. You could simply switch your other
radios to another code (and there are hundreds to choose from) and that would probably be all you’d need to do
to prevent the person with the stolen radio from listening in. Only if they had technical radio skills, and knew
how to read the configuration of your radio and how to change it could they restore their ability to monitor your
radio traffic.
Note that if you use these types of tones to selectively block unwanted radio traffic within your network, it will
not prevent other people (ie OpFor types) who already have radio receivers tuned to the frequencies you are
using, from monitoring your transmissions. They would of course not have any of these selective block features
enabled and so would hear all your transmissions.
The recommendation to use the tones on your radios would only be beneficial if you were using unusual
frequencies that any other people would be less likely to be monitoring. And, of course, if they did get one of
your preconfigured radios, the recommendation again assumes (and assuming is never a good thing to do!)
that they wouldn’t know either about ‘opening the squelch’ via the button on the side of the radio, or about
reprogramming the radio to ignore the CTCSS or whatever control tones.
So it might be beneficial, but it sure isn’t a guaranteed solution.
7.4 Key Lock
This is an essential feature that we urge you to enable in your radios. Set the radio for automatic key lock any
time the keyboard has not been used for a while.
When your radio is locked, you’ll still be able to use the on/off/volume control and the pushtotalk button (and
the other two side buttons too). But all the other keys are locked. This is a good thing – it means there’s no
way you can accidentally bump the radio and change its frequency or one of its other settings. If you don’t have
the radio locked, you will inevitably be bumping it against things from time to time, so it may not be on the
channel or setting you need it to be on when either you urgently need to contact someone, or someone urgently
needs to contact you.
So set the radio to autolock. It is easy enough to unlock if you do need to change something – you just hold
down the lock/unlock key for a couple of seconds.
7.5 Channel Frequency Step
If you wish to scan a block of frequencies (and remembering that these radios are not at their best as scanners
due to slow scanning speed and lack of sophisticated scanning features) you should consider what frequency
step setting you have. The radios can be set to move from as little as 2.5 kHz up to as much as 25 kHz for
each step while scanning and tuning.
If you set it to 25 kHz and a sophisticated opponent is using nonstandard frequencies for his own radio
communications, you might skip right past his frequencies and never detect them.
For this type of purpose, it is better to set the frequency step low.
7.6 Transmit Power Setting
The radio can be set to transmit with 1W or 4W of output power. This can be set channel by channel as
appropriate.
Although a lot of the time we are focused on getting the best possible range from a radio, there are exceptions
to this case. Generally we recommend you transmit with the least amount of power necessary. This saves
your battery, reduces the amount of radio frequency energy and any effects it may cause on you, and also limits
the distance at which your communications can be overheard by other people.
Sure, if you can’t be clearly heard at 1W, then by all means go up to 4W, because you have little choice. But if
you are heard clearly at 4W, consider dropping down to 1W.
8. Other Information and Resources
The Baofeng radios are very popular, with the result there are lots of websites and user forums out there that
discuss the radios.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that some of the participants on these forums seem like recidivists from
the ‘bad old days’ of CB radios in the 1970s – the real reason the CB radio ‘craze’ died out (in our opinion) is
because the airwaves became infested with idiots who jammed up the channels and made the participation of
‘normal’ people into an unpleasant and difficult experience.
Just as lowpriced GMRS/FRS radios have sort of overwhelmed the FCC’s policing of the GMRS radio bands,
the ready availability of lowpriced HT sets like the UV5R threatens to see the 2m and 70cm ham bands
infested by such people, too. Fortunately – at least so far – the ham community has been vigilant at policing
itself, and we hope that will continue to happen on the air, if not on the internet.
There is an excellent website at http://www.miklor.com/ that is focused on all UV5R related issues. It is well
worth your while to read all the way through it. The material is generally accurate and helpful.
There is an active Yahoo Group – http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baofeng_uv5r/ – that you might want to join
as well. We’ve found that there’s a high proportion of nonsense messages in this group, alas; but if you can
survive that for a few weeks, you might pick up some useful additional information, and it is easy enough to
unsubscribe from the group again.
Currently there are 7700 members of the group, and at least some of them are very helpful and sensible.
Others however clearly don’t know what a ham license is, let alone have one.
Summary
Your Baofeng UV5R radios are capable of doing many things, and are flexible and versatile communication
tools.
Hopefully the information on this page will help you configure them to best reflect the operational needs and
situation in which you are using them. If you’ve not already done so, we recommend you also read through our
article A Complete System for your Baofeng UV5R Radio – this gives you details of other accessories that you
should get to extend the use and functionality of your radios.
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1. Lyman Holler says:
October 9, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Dave –
I recently read on the Yahoo! Baofeng uv5r user group that a 5r user had found a nastygram from the FCC chastising
him for using the GMRS frequencies (without a license) hanging from his door knob. Have you heard anything more
about the level of FCC enforcement of the GMRS licensing requirement? Thanks.
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David Spero says:
October 11, 2013 at 10:48 am
Hi, Lyman
I’ve not been following the Yahoo group as closely these days – the ‘signal to noise ratio’ is sometimes a bit
overwhelming. If you can point us all to the special message chain about this event, that would be
interesting.
My guess is the guy was doing something very blatant. And I’m not sure what you mean by ‘nastygram’ – a
fine? A warning? A summons?
It would be great to know more about this.
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ozarked says:
October 11, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Dave
I know what you mean by the static on the Baofeng Yahoo! user group. It was only by shear luck
that I stumbled across the post I mentioned. Unfortunately, I have since trashed it. As I recall, it
was a picture of a form note designed to be hung on a door knob announcing that an FCC
investigator had tried unsuccessfully to contact the occupant and inviting the recipient to
telephone the investigator. No indication was given as to the specific transgression. However, it
has been my experience that when sharing incidents of this nature the teller usually relates it in
such a way as to cast himself in a favorable light. That said, my question remains: have you
heard any chatter indicating increased FCC enforcement of GMRS licensing requirements?
Thanks for all you do
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2. bob says:
January 24, 2015 at 9:38 pm
Ill be honest. I have not got a HAM license.
That being said, my 5R is programmed to operate on standard UHF80CH where licensing isn’t required. Then the rest
of the channels are set to emergency service Rx only.
In the process of setting my radios up, I discovered that by reversing the VFO ranges (high frequency in the low, and
vice versa) you can effectively disable the VFO function to prevent Tx on frequencies you’re not meant to be on.
I also set all my ANI codes to 0s so that no ANI is transmitted.
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David Spero says:
January 28, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Hi, Bob
I’m not sure, but I’ll guess from your reference to ‘standard UHF80CH where licensing isn’t required’ that
you’re not in the US, but instead perhaps in NZ or Oz.
I’m unfamiliar with the regulations downunder, but such a concept does not also apply in the US. The public
channels in the US have type restrictions on the radios that can be used to transmit on them.
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