Boafeng Uvr5 - Any good???

[AlphaBear]

Mines never been out the box. I looked up how to program the buggers on YouTube and thought sod that. PMR is so much less faff. However My squad all have the Beofengs radios but no one can be arsed to program them so we go without. 

 

[Enid_Puceflange]

I have found that 90% of players at my site  use the Baofeng uv5r

cracking little piece of kit, had mine for 3 years

used it twice ?

 

[AlphaBear]

The majority of radio users at my site do the same and one of our games is a 2 hr long capture the flags type game where we have multiple objectives including the ability to unleash chem strikes on squads of enemy players but to do that you have to radio back to HQ so the use of radios is a big advantage. Plus the site has a business use licence so in theory anyone who runs within the BSL range will be covered and in theory legal. 

 

[Groot]

I have these radios, they are really good.

I do not pay for a license.. Much like my movies and music

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[Jacob Wright]

Great bits of kit, I’ve got 8 that my team use. I’ve also used them quite successfully when out off roading. 
 

We have noted that the range drops in really dense forested or urban areas. To counter that we’ll sometimes use VHF radios instead but then you lose the ability to talk when close to each other. 
 

My 10p worth, at £15-20 each you can’t go wrong. Really easy to program, solidly built, simple to use!

 

[Rogerborg]

Really easy to program

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UV-5Rs?  That's the one thing I wouldn't  say about them.  Every time I need to do anything to mine, I have to find and rewatch some WuTube tutorial.

 

[Jacob Wright]

Guess it depends what your memories like ? I’ve just programmed 3-4 channels into mine in a couple of minutes!
 

Once you’ve got the hang of it you can do it pretty quick, from factory reset I can set one up in probably about 15 minutes?

 

[Lozart]

UV-5Rs?  That's the one thing I wouldn't  say about them.  Every time I need to do anything to mine, I have to find and rewatch some WuTube tutorial.

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Use Chirp. Piece of piss.

 

[Rogerborg]

Do it a lot and the pain gets less

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Use lube

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Noted.

 

[MadMole]

8 Baofengs and a licence. Most of our team now have them. I set up a Chirp program map and just send all the newbies a chirp export file that's customised with their name etc. The map has the legal licensed frequencies and the PMR ones all mapped in. I've moved from the 5r to the 9r as its waterproof, which is a bit more secure for wet game days

Swap the aerials out for a genuine Nagoya 771 one, or Retevis' version and the range is good enough for anything an airsoft game is likely to throw at you

Oh and when purchasing them, get them direct from official Baofeng and web sites, there is a ton of fakes and clones. When you test the fakes they have low power and terrible performance/ noidse etc. the genuine are superb 

 

[AlphaBear]

@MadMole any chance you can send me a copy of that chirp file. Taking that one step further other than that chirp program I’ll need a programming  lead to program the frequency map right? So if the site has a business use license what’s the legal frequencies we should use? 
 

cheers 

 

[djben9]

As mentioned above it’s so easy!!

get the license, it’s nothing over 5 years 

download Chirp off internet, it’s free anyway, follow YouTube if needed to use, aloe is copy/paste and takes send one to programme radios

Buy the programme cable as well, I think some radios may come with one it just depends on the seller?

Done

i have 2 radios and set up a friends, only a few things you need to do but it’s all on YouTube 

I also blame @Lozart…!!!!!

 

[Lozart]

I also blame @Lozart…!!!!!

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Yay! I'm a bad influence!