How To Use A Baofeng Uv-5r

Baofeng Basics

Learn how to use your handheld Baofeng UV-5R, starting from the showtime, including:

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Introducing the Baofeng Basics Online Course

For the concluding 3 years, we've been helping thousands of Americans study for their ham radio license exam. However, after becoming licensed ham radio operators, many of our students struggled to accept the next stride and finally get on the air. Because of this demand, nosotros decided to take our system that has been then effective in prepping for the ham radio exam, and really show how to utilize your ham radio.

It'south designed so y'all tin can larn to use your Baofeng quickly.

We're going to first from the very beginning, and teach you all the fundamentals of operating your Baofeng UV-5R. To make this course simple and easy-to-use, we focus specifically on the Baofeng UV-5R. Our videos are short and easy to empathize.

Course lessons:

Introduction
Setting up your radio
Nigh your BaoFeng UV-5R
Reset the mill default
What are repeaters?

Finding repeaters in your area
Programming your Baofeng to talk to a repeater
Making your first call on ham radio
Simplex performance

Course features

Acquire how to connect to repeaters and repeater systems where you lot can talk in chat groups, exercise emergency communications, encounter other hams, and more!

Our grade shows you how to make your first call footstep-past-step, and then you can larn quickly and avoid rookie mistakes.

We took the most of import concepts and boiled them downwards into lessons y'all can reference and use easily.

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Materials You Need for The Course:

To truly go the most out of this grade, you need two things:

1) Your FCC Technician License (learn more here)

2) A Baofeng UV-5R or any supported radios.

Disclaimer: Ham Radio Prep and Critical Communications Media LLC are in no style associated with Baofeng, Baofeng Tech or any like radio manufacturers or distributors. We are an contained organization that makes online courses and educational materials for those who want to learn how to utilise Baofeng radios and we savour these radios ourselves.

Supported Radios:

We have gone through an exhaustive list of possible similar radios and evaluated whether or non nosotros think they will work with this course. We expect at certain features to see whether they might be very similar to the popular UV-5R model.

We practise know that there are radios out at that place with varying firmware versions (some even requested by individual label sellers) as well as cosmetic changes, just on the whole they almost probable volition work with our form. For instance, menu numbers used for navigating programming might be slightly off, but you still should exist able to scroll through those menu items to detect the congruent and correct carte number for the function you need to carry out the aforementioned chore.

Baofeng/Pofung:

B-580T
BF-E500S
BF-F8
BF-F8+
BF-F8+III
BF-F9
BF-F9V2+
BF-R3
BF-UVB2 Plus
FF-12P
GT-3
GT3 MK2
GT-three Mark Two
GT-3TP Mark Iii
GT-3WP
GT-5
UV-10R
UV-10R V2
UV-5R
UV-5R7W
UV-5R MK4
UV-5R MK5
UV-5R V2+
UV-5R+
UV-5R++
UV-5R+Plus
UV-5R+Pro
UV-5R2
UV-5RA
UV-5RA+
UV-5RAX+
UV-5RAX (2M/ane.25M)
UV-5RB
UV-5RC
UV-5RCX+
UV-5RCX (2M/ane.25M)
UV-5RD
UV-5RE
UV-5RE Plus
UV-5R EX (Radioddity)
UV-5RG
UV-5RHP
UV-5R HTQ
UV-5RIII (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-5RK
UV-5RM
UV-5RM HP
UV-5RQ
UV-5RS
UV-5RT
UV-5RTP
UV-5RU
UV-5RWP
UV-5RX3 (2M/ane.25M/70cm) (Radioddity)
UV-5S
UV-5X
UV-5XP
UV-6R
UV-8X (2M/1.25M)
UV-9S (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-920
UV-B2+
UV-B3+
UV-S9T

BTECH/Baofeng Tech:

BF-F8HP
UV-5X3 (2M/one.25M/70cm)

Foscam Digital Technologies:

Intek:

MTC (Main Trading Co.):

Radioddity:

GA-5S
UV-5R EX
UV-5RX3 (2M/ane.25M/70cm) (Baofeng model)

Rugged Radios:

Tonfa:

Zastone:

Gignus:

Hesenate:

Mirkit:

UV-5R MK3
UV-5R MK3X (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-5R MK4
UV-5R MK5

R&L Electronics:

UV-5R iii band (2M/1.25M/70cm)

Retevis:

RT-5 (two power levels)
RT-5R
RT-5RV

Tenway:

Vero Global Communications:

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