Original Nagoya Dual Band SMA UV Antenna for baofeng UT-108UV SMA-Female by Two way radio
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I have the UVB5. It is solidly constructed and works great hitting all the local repeaters.
ReplyDeleteI like everything about it except for two things - the squelch is ineffective suppressing VHF noise/interference, and, there is no switch to turn on the back light. Both of these things really bugged me when I had the radio scanning the local repeaters. The scan would frequently stop due to the squelch breaking from noise. When the scan did stop due to receiving a signal, I could not see the repeater name or frequency in low light.
I resolved both of these issues.
1. I did a modification to the radio to use an unused side switch to control the display back light. You can find a link for this modification in the UVB5 Yahoo group. Basically, it involves running a jumper (with diode) between two locations on the circuit board.
2. I used the "test mode" in the Baofeng programming software to change the VHF squelch settings. The squelch settings go from 1 to 255. The settings I used are multiples of 23 and are 23,46,69... etc.
This is additional info in the UVB5 Yahoo group on both of these changes.
I'm now happy as a clam with this radio. It is so good I'm going to buy some more.