What can you receive scanning with a cheap £25 BAOFENG UV5R. Scanning in FM using an extended fake Nagoya Antenna NA771. These radios are great fun but just be sure you do not get scammed with a cheap fake radio.
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@2E0LMI2 жыл бұрын
Having great fun listening on mine whilst out walking the dog or to work. As well as the Ham repeaters, have heard construction workers, hotel staff, kids on play walkie talkies, and someone putting an order in for an ounce of weed. No maritime or air traffic for me yet though, I'll keep listening :)
@pmr4462 жыл бұрын
@@londo776 You can however force the baofeng to tune to as low as around 120 MHZ and receive AM signals by tuning slightly off frequency to allow detection although they will sound distorted...
@london1965710 ай бұрын
I never got that weed,fyi.
@2E0LMI10 ай бұрын
@@london19657 lol
@gearlab7342 жыл бұрын
The Baofeng UV5R is legal to buy and listen to without a license. You only need a amateur radio license if you want to transmit.
@grahamjones67122 жыл бұрын
You would have to put the shore frequency and ship frequency on A/B and dual watch to get both sides of the conversation on the ship to shore channels
@RingwayManchester2 жыл бұрын
So good Fred!! Love the shots of the ships out at sea
@helijim2 жыл бұрын
The last conversation was definitely air traffic control of some sorts as they were discussing flight levels and was typical chat for aircraft. The frequency you were on though was just outside the proper range though which was odd. They also use AM which is why it sounded a little off. Airband uses 117.975 - 137. These days it's moved from 25 KHz spacing to 8.33 KHz spacing. You can sometimes hear airband on 400 (ish) MHz if near the airport.
@mdcclxxviepluribusunum10669 ай бұрын
Is that not the vhf relay for airport ground vehicles?
@jaimieboy9992 жыл бұрын
The airband is from a repeater from an airport near by, it's so all the ground staff can hear what's coming in.
@BoB4jjjjs2 жыл бұрын
That was an aircraft ground repeater on FM from some airport nearby. Mostly so that ground staff are aware of aircraft movements and engine starts and pushbacks.
@andrewwatson53242 жыл бұрын
2m calling channel is 145.500, 145.525 is used for rsgb news broadcasts on Sunday mornings, otherwise it is usually just a normal communication channel.
@RawTopShot Жыл бұрын
I just ordered the tri-band model with fake 771 antenna. The first thing I'm doing with it will be to reprogram with chirp, turning off all duplex, just to make sure I don't accidentally tx.
@26DR7152 жыл бұрын
Used to have on one these years ago to as a scanner did manage to get to speak to the computer with no problems but with eveeybody going over to digital there was less and less to listen to, even most of the taxi companies have moved to digital and bus companies to so frequenciea are dead up here now. I live on the coast and even the marine bands are very quiet. Do still listen to the air bands and if i am really lucky might hear some ships. But good little radio and it does what said on the tin.
@andrewfishpool89 Жыл бұрын
Just ordered mine to add to my baofeng collection. I go to the kent coast a lot so will be listening to the marine channels too.
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Have fun!
@BooktownBoy2 жыл бұрын
145.500 is the 2m FM calling channel Fred. 145.525 is channel v42
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
S21 GB2RS
@Marti-dw9xtАй бұрын
Ogh lord please don't let me bump into you in the pub
@elfenmagix8173 Жыл бұрын
In the USA 108MHz to 138Mhz is used for Civil Aviation and formerly in the 1970s to the mid 1990s a slice of that (128MHz to 142MHz) was for police and emergency services but no more as they are now on 520MHz Digitally Encrypted signals. Civilian Aviation now has the whole pie to themselves. But as for you in the UK? I am not sure.
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
5:55 That is an intermodulation product which is caused by the UV-5R's poor IF and front end
@Dampfnebel2 жыл бұрын
Hi, i used the Data Cabel and the Programm Chirp. It easy to programming. Mostly Frequencies PMR and Marine Traffic Channels i use to SWL it. 73 from Baltic Sea Coast.
@humaxf12 жыл бұрын
Marine VHF channels are .050 mhz steps (or .025 mhz depending on how you go up in channel numbers)
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
Marine channels used to be separated by 50kHz intervals. As technology improved, it was rationalised to 25kHz steps.
@dutchbeef8920 Жыл бұрын
Schools using unencrypted public channels seems a bit daft these days maybe, mind you it would be a great way for me to find out if my boys are causing trouble (again) 🤷♂️🤦♂️
@iainet2 жыл бұрын
That’s a very old sweater you’ve got on judging by the sleeves! 😜
@NerdInMotion23 Жыл бұрын
I'm a bit of a novice and wanted to listen to try and learn and see if this is a hobby for me. For some reason mine will not let me type in half the frequencies that most KZbinrs are showing. Help would be gratefully received.
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Hi. Iam no expert but you might have to buy the USB programming lead and program it on a computer using free CHIRP software. You should be able to put any freq withing the radios tuning range into memory.
@annax52122 жыл бұрын
Hello Fred , using a Baofeng UV5 in Italy with even a slightly bigger antenna will result in no signals at all and you will be needing a notch filter 88- 108 mhz . my suggestion is to go up a level and getr the Yaesu FT4XE that works fine even with base antennas (in my case X200) 73's 1RC355
@edwardfletcher77902 жыл бұрын
The Yaesu is a LOT more expensive !
@annax52122 жыл бұрын
@@edwardfletcher7790 new costs around €65
@NUBBY392 жыл бұрын
Had a couple of these radios for what you pay for them there a bargain, as for the so called copies/fake what do they look like or how can you tell ? because you only can normally buy them off ebay or Amazon , don't know of any radio shops that sell them either , plus what is ironic the Baofengs range are Chinese copies of other radios anyway so bit silly selling a copy/fake that's already a copy of something
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Its getting really hard these days to tell. My fake has slightly heavy font and the buttons do not feel as smooth to use.
@NUBBY392 жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK But how do you know its actually a fake Fred ?, I and a few of my friends brought these back when they wasn't that much brought and accepted within the radio community as being classed as cheap Chinese crap lol and even back then and still now the quality control wasn't and isn't exactly brilliant so what other things say its a fake. also did you know the company Pofeng is also Baofeng too and Sansonic and as for the Nagoya antennas I've used both genuine and so called fake and one of the fake ones worked better than the genuine 🙂
@janbundell64342 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting Fred.....take care mate....Bob
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
1:28 PMR licences generally permit up to 4W for a handheld
@Superfandangoo2 жыл бұрын
I'm afraid your mistaken Maximum power is 500 mW ERP which is half a watt.
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Yeah afraid its just half watt with a fixed antenna. No fun :-(
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
@@Superfandangoo No Norty, PMR has thousands of licenced channels with maximum power levels typically of up to 25 Watts. PMR 446, by contrast has 16 channels with a maximum ERP of 500 mW
@Superfandangoo2 жыл бұрын
@@TonyLing well yes business can also be encrypted but this video is of PMR446 free channels theres no comparison
@640amthemix2 жыл бұрын
Great Video. I checked and they don't have the air band, if it did it would be a remarkable value as a scanner.
@annax52122 жыл бұрын
for airband you will be needing AM too
@640amthemix2 жыл бұрын
@@annax5212 Yes you are correct and that will make price go higher.
@annax52122 жыл бұрын
You can always listen in using a cheap SDR
@640amthemix2 жыл бұрын
@@annax5212 Yes you can. I use an old uniden scanner I purchased for a great price and it picks up air band. I posted a video on it capturing audio from ISS .
@mickeymouse54482 жыл бұрын
@@annax5212 I have a tri band uv5r with AM
@johnnymac262 жыл бұрын
Great wee radio i got one off fleabay for £20 good as new for the money cant argue.
@stoatrepublic2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Norfolk Fred!...
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Really like Norfolk.
@ronleblanc98322 жыл бұрын
I have of these but after checking things out they are copys including battery packs had bought 2 of those long antennas but a video they may not even match the radio so dont use them dont want to burn them out
@nigelb5341 Жыл бұрын
Hey Fred, I'm looking for a cheap handie just for Marine and PMR receiving only. Ive got a pmr handie and was going to get a marine tx/rx handie but I'm thinking it's better to get something like this or a Baofeng T1 or CRT FP00 or similar, what do you think? Thanks fella 😉
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
I like the Baofeng's. The UV5R works. Just need to try and avoid clone radios which is tough.
@nigelb5341 Жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK ....thanks fella, if I can't find a cheap marine handie I'll probably go for the UV5R. 73's 👍
@fitcher-armchair-sleuth Жыл бұрын
Surprised you have anything left that isn't "digitally encrypted" in your area. All of the scanner radio traffic is pretty much gone in my area. Down east Maine / New Brunswick. I live in a border town and scanner traffic is almost completely dead around here. On both sides of the border. How all these poor States and Provinces can afford to subscribe to these very expensive encrypted services .. puzzles me.
@thischannelwillselfdestruc49772 жыл бұрын
6:00 sounds like ATC and/or planes.
@johnmknox Жыл бұрын
5:35 Pretty sure that is RAF Lakenheath.
@richardmillican77332 жыл бұрын
May have said this before, RNLI and RAF search and rescue operations occur on "channel Zero" 160.600 offset - 4.600 (156.000) Can be interesting listening when you see lifeboats or coastguard active.
@TonyLing2 жыл бұрын
Ch:00 or Ch:33
@dennispronk64032 жыл бұрын
The first person in the radio sounds like a dutchman (Alex die host ad die hengel)thats crazy because we are no longer allowed to fish in the english waters 😃
@stephen88hox10 ай бұрын
Alex gunna send zanger rinus after you for snitching
@benl1845 Жыл бұрын
None of these channels seem to work for me
@bwc1976 Жыл бұрын
Pretty sad, some of the things that are considered terrorism these days. Love my Baofeng although I'm also looking for a proper scanner so I can get the AM air band.
@joeglassford810 Жыл бұрын
I have just bought a baofeng bf f8 plus....looking a better antenna for it... problem i have is it goes 400.000-520.000...an most replacement only go 400.000-480.00....wahat are my options....mamy thanks
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Hi Joe. I dont know if you can reprogram them wideband like a 10 m radio. Prob can with a usb lead. Might be worth trying CHIRP software.
@bgood2132 жыл бұрын
I have a question. Can’t find the answer. In my am radio if I cut the wire from antenna rod. Is it possible to get a station and or voice to come through?? By cutting am wire is this the equivalent to removing the fm antenna from radio ??
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Kind of. If you shorten the antenna by cutting it you change the frequency the antenna is tuned for. So on this radio you would turn it deaf.
@bgood2132 жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK thank you so much for answering! Let me clarify something. I disconnected the am wires from the board and the wires hang loose. So all that remains is the am antenna .Is this still the same as removing fm telescopic metal antenna??
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
@@bgood213 Think your talking about an AM /FM radio? If so you have a ferrite rod antenna built in the radio for AM and the telescopic antenna for FM. If you desolder the AM ferrite antenna you will lose AM reception but will keep FM.
@andrewfishpool89 Жыл бұрын
Hope its not a daft question but any idea how the fake ones perform? Mine came from Baofeng so hopefully they are original 😂😂
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
For basic scanning and 446 my fake model works the same. The keyboard buttons have a nicer feel on the genuine item though.
@assistantto0072 жыл бұрын
Are there any reliable methods of sourcing a genuine one?
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Hard on line. Amazon reviews can help uncover fakes.
@oldmanandguitar2 жыл бұрын
Anyway if identifying a fake. There is, they stopped making them in 2014 so all fake, I had one in 2016, it didn't last a day. Think I will get the CRT FP00 for a cheap backpack radio
@daxster352 жыл бұрын
Hi where is it possible to find all these frequencies thanks
don`t suppose you have a video showing how i download it from my windows pc to the radio do you ? i`m also a pc novice 😌😌
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
I did a basic guide on this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKWYo5eDrJWsjdU This one might help also kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV61Y2ued7Wqq7M
@t5jerry2 жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK cheers fred, your a saint
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
Does it matter if I put my uv5r on wide band or narrow band on pmr
@CB-RADIO-UK7 ай бұрын
Yes you really should be on NFM
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
My pmr keeps staying on wide band when I set on narrow band
@kayone85712 жыл бұрын
Hi Fred lovely video mate and very well said about the fakes ones . Fred can you help me out I’m After the radio ss6900 files to install uk 40 on this radio mate SS6900 struggling to find
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Ive heard the software is available to download on line. Ive never re programmed myself as yet so not much help. See comment below
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Have a look at this video. Might help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYmuZ42spNyWetU
@edwardfletcher77902 жыл бұрын
There's fake UV5-R's ?? Oh crap ☹️
@19TC5042 жыл бұрын
well dont buy radio,s on wish there counterfit,i have 2 but there still work great,there even do more power then the official baofengs
@yoho300 Жыл бұрын
Hi .How do you know if its counterfeit? I've just ordered one from ebay brand new.
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Unless you have a known genuine UV5R next to it to compare its almost impossible.
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
What happens. If u jail break uv5r uk
@CB-RADIO-UK7 ай бұрын
You run a risk of bricking the radio. Prob better with a quansheng uv-k5
@esseel78965 ай бұрын
had mine for over a month and havent heard anything on mine. im just not cut out for radio.
@esseel78964 ай бұрын
ok ive heard two people talking to each other and thats it. why cant i get my freq over 145? it wont go to 146 and above. ive unlocked it with the 3 button thing but still wont go up further.
@forddude19762 жыл бұрын
Can they be programmed for the trippel 5 and UK 40 ?
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Hi no sadly not.
@forddude19762 жыл бұрын
Ok thanks Fred ☺️
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
Why pmr 446 dead now
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
Fred what's ctcss mean
@CB-RADIO-UK7 ай бұрын
Hi Its a semi privacy code that allows your radio to ignore (not hear) calls from other parties who are using the same channel
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
Can u use it on channel mod to
@bgood2132 жыл бұрын
Can be used As a ghost box??
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
I guess so as any radio which receives static could be used. Prob best to remove the antenna.
@Whoisbacknow2 жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK That's the first thing you have to do if you buy such a thing (SB7 and others), always cut the antenna wire from the inside!
@martinj9251 Жыл бұрын
How do you get it to scan?
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
As i rem press scan and then the up or down button and it starts.
@toxmaster1 Жыл бұрын
Does it have some automatic scanning option or you must manualy searching for some active frequency?
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
You can set the high and low freq
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
How do I get my uv5r to stay on uhf not vhf on channel mod it want change but on frequency mod it stay on uhf can u help free please
@CB-RADIO-UK7 ай бұрын
Not really sure. As a recall the radio will change between A/B channels if it receives a signal on any of the 2 freqs in the display. Maybe thats it.
@davidbradley7463 Жыл бұрын
Hi do these come preprogrammed
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Normally a random set of test freqs
@davidbradley7463 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou which frequencies are best to use
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
I programme mine for the 16 pmr channels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMR446
@catalin1859 Жыл бұрын
U kinda forgot how to show us how to use the scanner "(
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Press the scan button and the radios scans :-)
@grahamwardandcd15947 ай бұрын
Can't here anyone when codes on when scanning
@CB-RADIO-UK7 ай бұрын
No you wont unless they happen to have the same codes as you. Best to switch them off and then you will get anyone if they are on air.
@wendycomeau83362 жыл бұрын
It’s shitty because no delay function , missing complete conversations
@CB-RADIO-UK2 жыл бұрын
Nope they are in duplex mode.
@wendycomeau83362 жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK when being used as a scanner my pofeng misses out complete conversations as there is no delay feature but that’s the nature of the beast
@markg6jvy1352 жыл бұрын
👍👏👏
@grahamwardandcd1594 Жыл бұрын
What's best handheld pmr. Or base
@CB-RADIO-UK Жыл бұрын
Depends if you want to walk around. Very few base radios these days.
@grahamwardandcd1594 Жыл бұрын
@@CB-RADIO-UK how far can u get out on them
@peterboyd2613 Жыл бұрын
Not really a how 2 vid
@DevinChimera-o2s9 ай бұрын
Hi
@CB-RADIO-UK9 ай бұрын
Hi
@kdpostswhatever91522 жыл бұрын
Sheesh get a better antenna this was bad for the ears