The new baofengs like the UV-21Pro V2 are locked out from being able to transmit on or above 480mhz.
Basic problem is likely found in the band limits tab in Chirp. If the band limits are too narrow the xmit frequency may be automatically inhibited. When the software flubs up it has been seen to set the band limits to 25 kHz from lower to upper limit. This is a clear no-go on repeaters and won’t transmit the out of band limit frequency. It limited my unit to 144.075 to 144.100 but allowed the programming of repeaters at 147 MHz just fine. They just were not permitted to transmit on the “out of limits” but in ham band frequencies.
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Do your R-CTCS and your T-CTCS thats what worked for me and if you program via your computer the baofeng program will auto fill the T-CTCS with the same Hz as the R-CTCS
In the uk we dont have anything above 480 so that’s a perfect place for a band limit anyway
Paul et al,
Legalities aside for the moment, I manually entered FRS frequencies into my newly acquired (unlocked) UV 5R… The only station that successfully communicated between sets was channel 7 (462.7125). The rest seemed to impact the other set’s squelch upon PTT but no comms.
Any theories as to why? I am awaiting a program cable so have not tried software method as of yet.
Ps - apologies on behalf of my country for the bizarre “legal” rant you endured above… Be glad the topic wasn’t scientific in nature… the response would have frightened you even more. I digress… cheers
If you want certainty, then use the VFO mode not memories. enter your 462.7125 on the radios and see if they work. then try a few other ones. I suspect they will work too. This points to the memory contents simply being different. One simple parameter, or lots - who knows. My guess is that if you get the cable and look at a dumo of each radio, differences will be obvious. If you have two radios for chat, then the vast number of memory channels will be dodgy ones anyway, so take your desired frequencies and enter those into a few memories and see what happens. So many things can make them ‘not’ work. CTCSS tones, DCS codes, shifts, offsets, bandwidths. You have proved the radios work, so wait for the cable - lose all the crazy frequencies your Baofeng has and start again. Remember that Baofeng is not a brand in the convensional sense, so two radios could be made in factories thousands of miles apart, with very little commonality in the memory contents. I buy from a handful of trusted Chinese suppliers, but it constantly surprises me how a company selling their own brand can, if they run out, source the same product from a different company - but when they arrive I find differences. Not just in programming, but different English voices, and recently even different mic connector pin spacing! They just don’t have the unique branding we get. One even supply me equipment they make for a well known Japanese manufacture - and I can choose the Japanese product, which is intended for the American market (where Japanese is fine and Chinese less OK) - OR - the same thing rebadged with their own brand. I actually sell both - different customers, different priorities. I very much suspect none of the factories with Baofeng above the door belong to the same company.
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Thank you for your expertise… I will give it a try! Ta