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Unable to transmit VHF (144.390) on uv-5r. (self.amateur_radio)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by TheOSINTguy to c/[email protected]

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Hello y'all, I recently got a cheap uv-5r off of Amazon so I could use APRS in a off the grid location, however I'm encountering a large set of problems with the radio.

First off all, I already tried the 3 finger unlock, doesn't work. Second off, I can program channels into it with chirp, but the radio will only beep if you press ptt. Only channels 1-30 will transmit, however if you change any of it in chirp it seems to revert back to gmrs.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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[–] ineffable 1 points 5 months ago

I programmed one entirely manually, have a go at manually programming that frequency to another channel. Otherwise you've probably got a hardware issue