Cool Things to do with Your Baofeng | Baofeng UV-5R New Things to Try in 2024 | Ham Radio

Looking for cool things to do with your Baofeng UV-5R in 2024? Check out this video for new ideas and tips for using your Baofeng for ham radio, APRS, working satellites, and more! #Baofeng #UV5R #HamRadio #aprs

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[HamRadioBytes]

What are some things you like to do with your Baofeng?

[dguiley]

Thanks for the info. I don’t have a license for anything yet so in learning and listening mode right now. Got curious because I’ve met several ham radio people while servicing their garage doors and there’s a guy with at least 4 large antennas I can see from my back yard. I think I’m picking up Walmart and some apartment maintenance and security on GMRS frequencies. Have listened to a local net or club check in. I’ve been leaving my radio on scan mode when home.

[summerwindcharters]

This was excellent! Oh, how I wish someone would do the same video, but for a Baofeng-uv-5g-plus! I'd be forever grateful!

[TheBamaChad-WCHD]

Great video. Tons of useful information and explained well.

[fondy]

It may not be as slick as a Steve Jobs keynote but you did a heck of job demonstrating why someone 'needs' one of these affordable radios. The only thing I would add is a reminder about the emergency use exemption to the license rules. As we're seeing in post-Helene NC, such emergencies may be encountered multiple times in a day over a span of weeks. However, the radio isn't going to be of much use if the owner doesn't already know how to use it, and it's amazing how much one can learn without ever touching the talk button.

[terrymeyer]

I'm a new ham and the owner of the uv5rx3 and the uv17r gps. Yea I have a couple yaesu and icom dual band for mobile and base, but messing around with the fengs is fun. The look on the old guys face the day I took my test when he saw the uv5rx3 was of disgust. I simply asked him to explain the pl tone to me and he said, " you're going to use THAT, those things are junk". Once I got my call sign I made it a point to check into the net with that radio and asked him if I was coming thru clear enough.

[JoeB-py]

Can you use the uk tv ariel on baofeng

[TheVoiceofKevinC]

I can listen & transmit 65-100 miles away with 2 mountain ranges in between. Right out of the box no repeater. Yet. Oh with the antenna it came

[pyreneesfarm]

If your police and public service agencies go digital and you can not hear them, AND they cannot hear you