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[GME Man]

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[Phantom]

What are you wanting to program into the radio?

[GME Man]

Just some police, fire and ambulance frequencies.

[alinco21]

Just some police, fire and ambulance frequencies.

umm, that radio does not actually have a no Tx side to it, unlike Motorola when you tick a box and you cannot transmit. You could actually have the Tx freq in as well the tone to actually transmit into there network, so just be carefully in putting any Tx freq into the radio.

You should just go to the baofeng site and just download there software, which works well with it.

[GME Man]

Ok thanks for the info

[Comint]

Just some police, fire and ambulance frequencies.

The Baofeng UV-5R only covers about 154 to 174 MHz, and about 420 to 520 MHz.

Emergency Services in the Toowoomba area are on the Government Wireless Network (GWN), which is digital AND encrypted, which means you cannot listen to them.

Rural Fire and Ambulance, to the West and South of Toowoomba, are still on mid-band VHF (70 to 85 MHz), which the Baofeng cannot receive.

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Comint

[Vkfour]

If you are using the cable that came with the radio and your computer is reasonably new, you will have trouble. Best bet is to try to get a serial cable for your radio and a usb to serial adaptor that WILL work on the newer Windoze.

[GME Man]

I have got the programming cable but when I open the software it says "Error radio did not respond"

[alinco21]

I have got the programming cable but when I open the software it says "Error radio did not respond"

make sure you have the usb cable drivers set up, look in device management to see.

the soft ware would be fine.

[GME Man]

Ok I will double check that when I get home.

[RadioKid]

Check your COM port settings.

Cheers, Mathew

[Vkfour]

With most of these radios, you have to tell it which COM port you are using. From memory, I think the default is port 3.