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I have to say, I bought the UV-3R just before I got licensed for tech, and used it till I could get me a 10m/12m radio, later got me an all-band Yaesu-857D for the truck. I now managed to get me a UV-5R The 5R is not only built better than the 3R, but the alpha tags make using it a dream! I...

Just thought I'd throw this one out there for anyone thinking they just threw a lot of money away on a new radio. I just got my FT-857D in yesterday, finished hooking it up, got it to connect to the local repeater, but haven't made any actual contacts on it. Today, I fought with it trying to...

Are you trying to say he's 5 by 9 on the BS meter?

Glad you posted this! I just bought a FT-857D for my truck. I looked heavily at antenna tuners, and bought the one a friend has. I thought why not get a different tuner, because my friend's tuner does everything but 6 meters. Reading on the ATAS 120, I thought it kinda sounded like instead...

O.k. I have the UV-3R, so I may help on some of your questions. More questions can be answered by subscribing to the yahoo group for UV-3R or if they now have one for the UV-5r over there. Monoband, disable DW (Dual Watch) in the menu. 5 watts, is it on the power plug? and Chirp, I don't...

I've got a RCI 2950 DX, tried to get the split to work. Do you need the CTCSS option board installed for it to work? Every time I hit the split button, it just beeps and doesn't want to do anything.... I got to admit, not all radios will tune in what appears to be 100hz increments...

I know this is an old thread, but couldn't resist... Search YouTube for a guy who shows you how to climb a 1648 foot tower! One really daring person! Makes me sick just watching the camera pointing downward! You take the elevator up to like 200 feet or so, then climb a caged in ladder, then...

I saw a youtube video demonstrating it. Cool that they made a hand held in 10, 11, and 12 meters, but the point that turned me off the most was the fact that you have to buy your own rechargable batteries, you have to buy an accessory kit to get the recharger, and apparently you can't just plug...

There's a lot of CB shops out there irratate me the same as many cell phone stores do... They think a single magnetic mount antenna will do the needs of everyone on the planet! I mean, why not just sell them a 198' non-ground-plane scotch taped on antenna with antenna tuner? As bad as the...

It's my first radio. I have since learned you do get what you pay for with this radio.... The covers for the cable connectors keep coming off, I ended up loosing mine at the dairy festival. In Georgia, my landyard pulled apart (very cheap lanyard. I got a rope type lanyard and connected to...

Nice! KF5QEO would like one, but with all the information on the front, so I can mail it like a post card. And speaking of which.... Anyone got some of these nice QSL cards allready made, so I can contact them and get one of my very own World Wide DX QSL cards? Best thing I like about...

A good example of why most folks hate noise toys!

Foot switch? That's how those radio talk shows do it? I was thinking just wire the on/off switch on the microphone to the PTT, though you could always put a small push switch, like that of a desktop microphone mounted on the desk, near the keyboard of a computer or something....

Trying to understand what exactly you are trying to do here.... If it's broadcasting music, that's illegal. If your wanting to record the radio in audio form, why not just use the ext. speaker jack?

Is it a 4-pin as well? What Cobra are you going to use it on? I'd just get a multi-tester and open up the back of the mike, then see if it seems to be wired like a standard mike. Basically, look for the 4 wires from the cable, use an ohm meter or coninuity tester to check for which of the 4...

A little bright there on the display... Give me a few days and I'll try to take a picture of my setup. I just bought a ranger 2950DX (amber display). I've got a Baofeng UV-3R handy talky (2m/75cm) 2w max. Will install the ranger in an Isuzu I-290 pickup just below my Cobra LTD 29 BT.