KK4RVR... this was very helpful for me. I learned something new today. Thanks! I always though cross band was for two folks wanting to talk full duplex on the radio. In fact, you can do that with Receive and Transmit offsets on the same band and the same radio . Your application lets you use your base (better power and antenna) by cross banding with a low power HT in the same way a repeater works. Nice!
I bought one of these bf 5888 uv. The so called manual just tells u how to turn the function on but nothing about using DTMF to control the channels and so forth from the ht. Could u make a video of this procedure. I am unable to locate any info on this. TIA, KI7EN
I put the link channel in one VFO and the repeater input on the other VFO. I then listen on the repeater out put on the HT. I don’t feed the repeater output back through the link. That works best in my situation. Still great video 73 DE K2ADC
Hey great video, one question. Can you set the Tx Power individually for the 2m and 70cm band in XRepeater Mode? If i want to key up my 2m local Repater and need Medium Power for that, i don´t need that much Tx Power on 70cm for Rx on my Handheld Radio in my House.
the cross-band audio seems good ,i remember the Kenwood 733 decades ago where it was not so good and clear at all. so if someone talks on your UHF it will be retransmit on your VHF repeater? Thanks gervais ve2ckn
Thanks for the video, so is the steps to enable cross band repeat to designate the freqs, and then just choose the menu option on the left side to enable x start? There are no other configuration steps?
I am a first responder that uses mostly kenwood and motorola. I have one of these that was given flr my pov. I also program the system for my area. Just a quick question for you professional amatures who use this radio, does the define ctcss in the more tab using the actual software need to be the actual rx tone per channel when selecting squelch mode to ctcss/dcs over the squelch option in the more settings?
Not talking about the pl/dpl for tx and rx I got those set but can't find info on this radios define ctcss for the squelch mode. It seems default it's set to 151.1 on each channel mode in the more tab using the default software not the chirp one.
Would it be possible to crossband repeat, into another repeater? ie, use HT to hit your own personal crossband mobile repeater, say HT on 440, your mobile on 2m, but the mobile is set to Xmit on the 2m for a repeater freq, but receive on the 2m listen frequency, that way you could have a bunch of HT's pre-programmed for a single frequency maybe with a CTCSS tone to your local home repeater, but your mobile is hitting an even further away larger repeater. this would allow using cheap simpler non-user programmable radios.
if the repeater is set at 146.75 + (100), and you can talk on that repeater using the mic; then setting it to crossband would be the same thing as keying the mic. Your answer is yes. W4CEC
Malo...aún no puedo saber cómo éste radio efectua la funcion de auto repetidor cross band...es decir..lo que recibe por vhf lo repite por uhf y viceversa...porque hasta el momento al parecer solo lo hace en una direcccion o sea de vhf a uhf y eso es todo.
![HIWWHEE | OHM [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OJJLtTLqLag/mqdefault.jpg)
KK4RVR... this was very helpful for me. I learned something new today. Thanks! I always though cross band was for two folks wanting to talk full duplex on the radio. In fact, you can do that with Receive and Transmit offsets on the same band and the same radio . Your application lets you use your base (better power and antenna) by cross banding with a low power HT in the same way a repeater works. Nice!
I bought one of these bf 5888 uv. The so called manual just tells u how to turn the function on but nothing about using DTMF to control the channels and so forth from the ht. Could u make a video of this procedure. I am unable to locate any info on this. TIA,
KI7EN
Gee whiz info - in the military, RVR stand for "Runway Visual Range".
Good video and 73's
I put the link channel in one VFO and the repeater input on the other VFO. I then listen on the repeater out put on the HT. I don’t feed the repeater output back through the link. That works best in my situation. Still great video 73 DE K2ADC
You have the B band on Mute which you can not hear when the A band is transmitting.
Hey great video, one question. Can you set the Tx Power individually for the 2m and 70cm band in XRepeater Mode? If i want to key up my 2m local Repater and need Medium Power for that, i don´t need that much Tx Power on 70cm for Rx on my Handheld Radio in my House.
That's cool 👍
the cross-band audio seems good ,i remember the Kenwood 733 decades ago where it was not so good and clear at all.
so if someone talks on your UHF it will be retransmit on your VHF repeater?
Thanks
gervais ve2ckn
Thanks for the video, so is the steps to enable cross band repeat to designate the freqs, and then just choose the menu option on the left side to enable x start? There are no other configuration steps?
Can you explain why anyone would want to do this?
what type of anthena do you use?
Hi can you make a tutorial on how to add direction of shift (+ or -) and Offset of 8.000 on this base radio.
Set one side tx frequency and the RX frequency on the other
Is this simplex only or can you designate separate transmit and receive frequencies on both bands?
how to change from channel to frequency mode?
Is there anyway you can show how to program the cross and repeat on both of the radios and where to put the tone
one antenna or 2 antennas and do you use a duplexer thank you
Sir i ask if that base radio is for sale.. Thank you
I am a first responder that uses mostly kenwood and motorola. I have one of these that was given flr my pov. I also program the system for my area.
Just a quick question for you professional amatures who use this radio, does the define ctcss in the more tab using the actual software need to be the actual rx tone per channel when selecting squelch mode to ctcss/dcs over the squelch option in the more settings?
Not talking about the pl/dpl for tx and rx I got those set but can't find info on this radios define ctcss for the squelch mode. It seems default it's set to 151.1 on each channel mode in the more tab using the default software not the chirp one.
Would it be possible to crossband repeat, into another repeater?
ie, use HT to hit your own personal crossband mobile repeater, say HT on 440, your mobile on 2m, but the mobile is set to Xmit on the 2m for a repeater freq, but receive on the 2m listen frequency, that way you could have a bunch of HT's pre-programmed for a single frequency maybe with a CTCSS tone to your local home repeater, but your mobile is hitting an even further away larger repeater. this would allow using cheap simpler non-user programmable radios.
if the repeater is set at 146.75 + (100), and you can talk on that repeater using the mic; then setting it to crossband would be the same thing as keying the mic. Your answer is yes.
W4CEC
Do you still own this radio and if so is it still workkng?
it looks like cignus 828 uv radio
wow RCI 2950 ... legendar RTX !!
The fan on those are point less
Malo...aún no puedo saber cómo éste radio efectua la funcion de auto repetidor cross band...es decir..lo que recibe por vhf lo repite por uhf y viceversa...porque hasta el momento al parecer solo lo hace en una direcccion o sea de vhf a uhf y eso es todo.
Nice!! PA3CRL