Un-gimp your UV-5R this way: Turn the radio off. Press the Mon+the PTT+VFO buttons at the same time and hold them down. Turn the radio on while holding down the buttons. The screen will say "FACTORY" meaning that it's un-gimped.

@ScorpionRanchTX

2 жыл бұрын

Next time I encounter one of those locked UV-5Rs I'm going to try it!

@sonofmanarkjazz8965

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could give your comment more than just a thumbs up. Just tried this on my UV-S9+ and it flipping worked. Someone give this man some money. Thank you.

@DellFargus

2 жыл бұрын

@@sonofmanarkjazz8965 Glad to help. Pass this info on.

@justicejones5025

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! worked for me!

@Tulerpio

Жыл бұрын

Eu fiz, vi aparecer na tela o 'FACTORY' e afinal o que melhorou?🤔 Não sei o que eu desbloqueei com isso!😟 Achei que isso ia liberar a faixa dos 220MHz...🫣

Didn't realize they locked any of the models. Glad I have a beofeng from about 7 years ago. Use it for MURS sometimes.

I love these cheap little radios. They're almost disposable!

I have one of these. In chirp, I went to the settings tab and then clicked other settings and changed the VHF upper limit to 260 and the UHF lower limit to 300. Now it transmits on the 220 band.

@ScorpionRanchTX

2 жыл бұрын

good tip!

@erik100mark

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@MrFreddarama

Жыл бұрын

My Baofeng will transmit on all the ranges but I can't find this in the settings with Chirp. It keeps telling me the frequency is invalid. I'd love to find these exact settings. Thanks!

Had a ton of trouble getting this figured out for Chirp on Arch Linux because there were over 32 COM ports labeled tty0-tty32 that were all throwing errors. Here is what I had to do: 1. Run chirp as root so that I did not run into permission issues using the COM ports 2. Use a USB port that plugs directly into the motherboard, not the front panel 3. Reboot the machine with the USB cable plugged in. 4. Use a legacy 2.0 (not 3.0) USB port 5. Now at the very bottom of the list there was a /dev/ttyUSB0 that was not there before. 6. Use Radioddity UV-5RX3 You may not need to do all of this but this is what worked for me.

@patthesoundguy

Жыл бұрын

In Linux, in the Debian side of things, you need to give permissions to have access to the com ports... A quick line in the terminal and a log out and in again select the USB com in the list in the software and even the fake prolific chipset USB radio cables work on chirp in Linux. It took a bit of Google work to get that figured out. The instructions are in the chirp forums.

There are two versions of the UV-S9 and this can be confusing. There's the Tri-Power and the Tri-Band. This nearly tripped me up when I ordered one. I bought the tri-band version to use almost exclusively as a scanner so I had access to the most traffic. Both about the same price.

My UV-S9S3 tri bander came without the Abree antenna. I used one of the Radioddity settings in chirp.

Subjectively, the audio output seems much better over the uv5r. They even seem to beat the quansheng version

Thank you Bro!

You sound like a radio DJ... 🔥

One thing I don't like about the USB adapter is that it doesn't use the same jack as the dock, so you cant interchange them even though it would be trivial to do so.

Very nice Video! Thanks for it. Greetings from Germany

I was totally surprised that it didn't have a software lock. Also the new locked UV-5Rs are really easy to jailbreak. There is no option to set low power mode though, low is actually medium power. Someone already beat me to it but I'll say it again Just hold PTT and MONI and VFO/MR while turning the radio on A screen will pop up that says FACTORY and then reboot. It will not reset the radio but it will unlock PTT on all available bands

@Tulerpio

Жыл бұрын

Fiz exatamente como recomendou, vi o FACTORY aparecer mas não aumentou o meu range de frequências disponíveis!😥

U can press and hold down the 0 sql button to view the voltage level!

@ScorpionRanchTX

6 ай бұрын

great tip!

Which model would you recommend? (uv s9 plus or Baofeng Bf-F8 Plus)

but myself a BaoFeng UV-S9 Plus Tri-Ba with the $7 program cable that has a multi-ends on it work like a charm with chirp I'm enjoying having the tri-ban power is only dual power though high and low

Hello Scorpion Ranch, I was hoping if you send me your chrip setting for your radios. Thanks again great videos 🤙

They're Amateur band radios. They do sell GMRS radios that are not locked...

On aliexpress they claim to have a new Baofeng UV-S9 that is 10w is that actually new or is it just like the other ones

@ScorpionRanchTX

Жыл бұрын

It's BS... All of these radios are based on the same 8w Baofeng design, and they really only put out 6 or 7w.

what other antenna might be good? i also have a uv-s9 plus and i face problems with mountains in my region

@ScorpionRanchTX

2 жыл бұрын

A Nagoya 771 is a nice upgrade antenna, or the 717 if you don't want the length of the 771. amzn.to/3ORYVHd VHF/UHF are essentially line of sight so mountains are going to cause problems no matter what antenna you have. Maybe there is a repeater on top of one peaks you can access? If not, CB (HF) might work better for you.

@jonasaugusto99

2 жыл бұрын

there are no repeaters here, but going up a little on the hills the signal gets better, I think an antenna a little stronger would be enough, in this case I operate at 460mhz, in the video none of this was good for uhf, vhf doesn't work where I live .

Nice knife

@ScorpionRanchTX

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's a Lightning OTF

Can these radios be used for GMRS?

@ScorpionRanchTX

2 жыл бұрын

They can be programmed for GMRS frequencies, but they aren't part 95 certified.

Before you toss that antenna, find out what it's for. It goes with the radio, Mine is tri-band.

@ScorpionRanchTX

Жыл бұрын

It's a Nagoya NA-771 clone which is a 2m/70cm antenna. The seller shipped me a new one and it works great. Good customer service. The radio in the video isn't tri-band.

Reset to factory.

Horrible overmodulated audio on your YT post

Cheap and nasty radio

@ScorpionRanchTX

Ай бұрын

Just like your ole lady!

Receiver seems like trash, I have 4 of them in front of me next to 2 gt-3 and 1 yaesu vr-6. They are dropping signals and keep going in and out while scanning.