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I gave my dad one and drove down the road, lost contact with him in less than half a mile.

Number 11: With a decent antenna, you can also pick up and listen in on the ISS (track on ISS tracker and wait for a fly-by at 20k mph)

Do you have the exact image you are using please as the one I have is superman 6.2.2+ and I've followed 2 guides yours included and as soon as you change 1998 to your node number supermon stops displaying anything and the only difference my image is using 6.2.2+. Thank you

Would love to have one.

Hey need help do I need a license to use for hiking with friends? I just found a cheap deal and bought it

My head is about to explode!!! Got to programming the local repeater, And got completely lost

Would like to see the baofeng 82

Hi Ben Great Video. Just finished set up. just one question. When logged into the test server all i am giving is a dead key. I can receive/ hear every thing that is going on. even logged into Putty to boost audio but no joy

TY for the upload it helped me a lot the only issue i am having is i have a baofeng BF-F8HP and on the Tone i see 000.000 HZ but i cant comprehend it how you supposed to add the Tone 0.6 if the TONE is 0.6 do i add 000.006 or 006.000 or 6000.000 because per the local Repeater it just says Tone 0.6 + Thnx forgive me for the confusion

What does the little H on the screen mean?

Your cutting out the time delay !

what if you done all of the steps and when you press the PTT button it doesnt open up and get a Squelch noice.

Does anyone know what has happened to the rev?

I started this 3 years ago. After dancing two sound cards i became Ill and. Abandoned project. Ended up learning about the NHS instead Hi 9 weeks inside , was interesting, i adapted plus the smart phone provided ham radio due to all these nodes with echolink. NHS has wireless access , once setup, it will work at any hospital in Wales.. After my Aorta valve replacement,i am back to normal. Only just beginning to get back to my past projects. Did get the hot spot pi star working well with dmr. I have 2 spare pi and a pi4. Cm108 audio board still have. Thanks for your info.

Why can't Red button simply say channel and frequency

Great video! Thanks for your help

Can this radio listen to 27.065 MHz?

g7wbx ,great video going to try this out just back on air after a long break 73's

OMG ! I'm getting it !! brilliant tutorial, thanks 73

So helpful. Thank u

Great video. I was wondering, can you choose your own call sign, or is it given to you?

One of the most informative videos I've found. Thank you very much

Do you have to save the channels

WHERE YOU GONE REV YOU OK?

thanks for your video.

“For many of us that first radio we buy is something cheap off of Amazon” lmao that was a great line because I did exactly that two days ago I was just interested in finding out that this Hardin thing is all about. Heard you don’t need anything special just to listen in on what people are talking about plus you can use it as a regular radio to hear noaa weather or fm radio for $18 that’s not too bad

At the time of watching. I passed my intermediate 1 week ago. 35/46 with 9 days binge studying.. I have ordered the 2 books you have shown. When they arrive ,I will book my exam. And hopefully get a M0 ??? In 4 weeks or so.. Congrats on passing. 73s. 2E0IWN..

Ben, just wanted to say I followed every You Tube video you posted while gaining a greater knowledge of our hobby. To that end I took my Foundation, then Intermediate and within the year had a full licence, so thank you Ben from Paul M0PHB

First things first, awesome video brother. Great info for beginners. Secondly, you need a license to talk on a radio? That's bull. Just another way to charge the people for big daddy government's permission to do something that we should already have the liberty to do I suppose.

Hi Ben I am a complete amateur at ham radio l have purchased a Baofeng vu-5R to get me started, after charging said radio the starting language was English but somehow after pressing some buttons the language is now Japanese please help. Also the radio is in on permanently mode please help

I use a repeater that’s only .07 miles from my bunker. I have talked to a lady that was in Iceland

A/b selects transmit channel. The one marked with triangle is the selected transmit channel in normal vfo mode operation. No point in mentioning receiving channel because both displayed channels are receiving. Right? Also you can just type the channel number in when in menu MR-Ch rather than scroll through 60 channels. In channel mode Press and hold band button to see hidden transmission frequency or if one is not set the numbers won’t change when you hold band button. Hope this helps you not wear your buttons out😉

What ever happened to just turn it on, you hear people? This radio is extremely complicated, I'm sorry I purchased it!!

Theres also an app for this as well

What kind of equipment did you use to get this distance? Im new to the ham stuff studying for my test

73 and 51 🌈

Interesting how you got away with a balanced line into a 50 ohm unbalanced input/output in the rig without a balun. 😀

I'm all the way in cape breton

I’ve watched probably about 20 videos on how to make my baofeng work and this is easily the most simple step by step explanation video of all. Thank you.

This has been very very useful. I've just subscribed as you present your knowledge very well. Thank you.

Not been on VHF or UHF in around 36 year's, bought this on ebay last week, thought I'd use it Mobile, what a great little radio for £20, this video saved me having to read too much of the manual, many thanks, G4ULL

Can I use this as a cb for snowmobile up in mountains(

Calling RG58 "hopeless" is overstating. It depends on frequency, needed connection length, type of use in quite broad sense. And of course, some RG58s are made cheap, so they are more lossy that they should be. For fixed installation, especially longer cable runs and of course higher frequencies, there are better cables. But for HF portable operation it is OK, especially when you are using only several meters. Operating portable, coax is a consumable, and you definitively don't want stiff, heavy cable. To be fair, I cannot operate otherwise than portable, because in my location it is impossible to set up any HF antenna apart of really compromised ones. And I am also not interested in VHF/UHF operation at all - there's no point in contacting the same people ad nauseam (it is at the end "line of the sight"). I used my HTs less than 10 times in the last year. (I was so dumb I underestimated the role of RG58, too. I bought a pile of H155 instead. It is stiff, not very light, outer insulation prone to cracking, at the end I cannot use it for "really portable" operation, only for short runs on the ground to GP vertical or loaded 1/4 at the balcony. And jumpers. For any hanging antennae and portable operation, RG-316 or even RG-174 is much better. Lossy? Given the short runs, not really.)

Absolute legend 🙌

Great info. Thanks

As a person that speaks 3 dialects of Chinese, I can say that Baofeng is pronounced boo-fweng. There is you lesson for the day.

Real Clear and concise explanations of ham radio and repeater use, This will be extremely useful for brand new hams, Your explanations are spot on even though some of your frequencies are a little different than ours here in the USA Thanks and a Merry Christmas to you!!

Are you advocating talking on a repeater before you are licensed. It sure sounds like it.

great info! just wish i could reach through the screen and bend the right side of you eyeglass frames up a tad. i have a disorder no disrespect