Best Baofeng UV-5R Accessories To Enhance Your Radio
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2023
- Get the most out of your Baofeng UV-5R Radio with these cheap and simple upgrades!
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Great suggestions, all of them. I generally tell the new folks my top three upgrades are, Antenna, Battery, Speaker Mic. The only one I would add would be another UV-5R to prevent loneliness. It's great to have someone to talk to. Thanks Bro.
Great Video Mike. I have a couple of these accessories but I'm tempted now to change all my radios over to the BNC type. I'm definitely looking into that J-Pole roll-up. Great concept.
Some company would make millions if they made a replacement UV5R battery with a USB-C port on it.
They do sell that in my country.
@@izumisagiri link?
They sell extended batteries with USB-C on Amazon.
I have the larger batteries and after 2 years of sitting on the shelf they still had a full charge
It's amazing how little I use my uv5r and how it always still has a charge and my yeasu and Kenwood's are dead. My icoms seem ok also.
I bought one of these radios sometime before Covid. I never really used (kept it with me when Ide go off-roading in the middle of nowhere) It been sitting in my tool box for years. Just turned it on and it still had battery charge. Listened to the FM radio on it for an hour and then found the charger, which it’s now at 100%. Nice little radio, just gotta learn how to use it
Hi Mike, a very interesting video. Thank you for taking the time to make such a great video.
Excellent suggestions for the beginner, nice job. Two things I would add, 12v cigarette charger cable and a signal stuff mag mount, and your HT is a mobile rig.
Bought a signal stick glowin the dark. ..cant wait for it.
Great video, thank you for sharing :)
I have a GT5R and UV5R and I can't say enough good things about Chirp. It just keeps getting better and better. And combined with the FTDI-chip programming cable, it makes programming these radios so easy. Some handheld radios are pretty easy to program on the fly but not the UV-5R (I've done it, know how to do it, don't recommend it)!
Buenisima explicacion, sobre todo del apartado de ANTENAS...MUCHAS GRACIAS...THANK!!!!!!
The Baofeng connector is a standard Kenwood style, so there are tons of options for those accessories. I would caution people to stay away from the $15 Retivis antennas, so similar 15-16 inch floppy whip antennas. I've been trying one on a UV5R for the last couple of months against the stock rubber duck and I got to say the performance from the stock antenna actually seems better, and you don't end up with a top-heavy HT that doesn't perform any different. Wait a bit longer and spend twice the money or a bit more on something a little better. My local repeater is up almost, 5000ft at the top of a mountain and the 15" whip doesn't make it from places the stock rubber duck does.
What brand is the stubby antenna?
I would recommend the Commountain shoulder mics. Only 19.99, and worlds better than the cheaper ones. They will last longer than the radio. Even prefer those to the stock Yaesu mics.
The Miguel Action Shots are classic.
Just got three of these radios from a buddy who had too many when he came back from Ukraine. Can't wait to get all these fun accessories and use them. I wonder what the max range I could get in the mtns of Colorado with that J pull?
Can you use any VHF/UHF antenna for this radio? I want to get one that covers at least 70 miles
if you didn't cover it , then I don't what you missed. 👍👍
Do you have to program to use it? Or can you use as an frs walkie-talkie?
Thanks for sharing this :)
Can anyone tell me what is the advantage of having a SMA to BNC connector? Is it just the quick detachment attachment or is there some signal advantage to be had?
5:37 its the personality that matters 😭
lol... that's what she said...
Don’t you have direct links for the antennas ? Thank you
So quick question if anyone can answer i got 2 uv5r’s one a couple months ago and one a couple weeks ago the slightly older one if I put on the shorter antenna with the new one on and listening it looks like it’s transmitting every time I turn it on and the new radio is picking it up I think the first responders reacted to it too I have never pushed the transmission button listening only. Is that normal?
Yup, you pretty much covered all of the bases... I would add one more item, the Btech battery eliminator for extended mobile operation in your car.
The one accessory I'd put in the "must/first buy category" is the SMA to BNC adapter. Then you can experiment with antennas to your hearts content, or switch between a dedicated antenna setup, base, mobile mount and HT.
I have the SMC/BNC adapter on all of my SMA HT's, that gives me a standard platform for antenna, coax, power/swr meters, etc. that can be used on any of my HT radios. 73
How far can you reach with that giant antenna?
Where the APRS setup for the Baofeng? Hi Hi 73
I got one about a year ago I got to find someone to show me how this works..
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What, no band pass filters to improve spectral purity? (Say "hi" to the cat.)
Bought these for my kid some walkie talkies before I realized what they were ...yeah i can see ill be stealing these and going down the rabbit hole lol
Lol welcome to the club!
Can you program my radios... Let me know
You should of sang the whole video, that would of been interesting 🤔 😂!!!
Avoid the $5-10 hand mics. They are rubbish unless you like your listening to a 1970s transistor radio. You audio to others will be terrible. Don't make a cheap radio cheaper. Invest in a better mic if you need.
Another Ham who uses a toy Mac computer. What is it about a Ham that makes so many of them go to the darkside and buy dumpster fire Mac computers?
Really? Dumpster fire? Grow up
Bo FANG...really? Remember Feng Shui (Fung Schway)? Same Feng. Baofeng = Bofung. I know 'Fang' is a fairly common mispronunciation. Just sayin'.
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Dude no one cares