Baofeng FRS GMRS VHF Programming UV-82 UV-5R

[Music] this video is to show you how to program a Bao Fang radio for non ham users somebody if you're like me you want to be able to talk to an FRS radio such as this or perhaps a marine VHF radio that was my goal with these radios these radios are less than $25 I got the slightly upgraded version which is called the UB 82 the cheaper and more common version is the UV 5r and there seems to be quite a range of these I wouldn't worry too much about it I would just go for an inexpensive model so let's get to it so the way it comes out of the box is in with the code frequency mode as she says so in frequency mode it's actually got the frequencies in here and that's not that's great if you're a ham operator it's not really very good sorry if you want to talk to FRS radio like this so what we're gonna do is we're gonna have to program this radio and let me show you the cable the cable that's gonna be required for this radio okay so this is a Bao Fang radio cable and apparently there's a big problem with counterfeit cables I've read some internet reports that say that you want to get a cable that does not have a sticker here this says file thing on it and some reports are that these ones are fake and also saying that the this part here should be coke bottle shaped instead of this straight shape however this cable I got from Amazon from the valving company itself so I was pretty sure it's legit and it does seem to be legit and I'll show you how we can verify that on your computer and then it's gonna have these plugs here by the way for those of you considering a VHF radio I there is a waterproof version of the radio I don't how believe believe however it is it floats and so you could pay 25 bucks for this radio or you can pay like 50 bucks for one that oats or maybe it's 75 we can't sorry for one that's waterproof but doesn't float and I figured I'll just let it go overboard and buy a new one for anyways so these plugs go in here there's a waterproof version where you actually have to unscrew this this one you don't have done screw and that is what's gonna program it however I want to caution that on my cable even though it it's an original cable you have to sometimes hold it in to get at the program what I ended up doing or people recommend is you take a rubber band very tight rubber band and you rubber band around here to keep the thing held in but that is unfortunately a situation ok so the next question is how do you program it for these FRS gr mm RS or VHF well there's a bunch of videos in the internet showing you how to program a channel manually and let me tell you that is a bunch of work you don't want to do if you're trying to program a whole bunch of channels so instead what we're gonna do is I'm going to show you how to do it on your computer using software called chirp so I'm gonna switch over there the software we're going to be using is called chirp but before that I want to show you the device manager and how to verify if the cable that you purchased is a valid cable so I'm gonna plug in the cable and you can watch down here as this item comes up in the device manager and you can see it change ok I just plugged it in and it refreshed and now under ports if it says prolific then you're set okay if it doesn't if it says generic or it's got some exclamation mark or whatever then it's fake now it did once come up and say fake the first time I plugged it in but after a while it finally changed to prolific and I haven't had a problem since so thankfully that's good if you have a fake one apparently what you have to do is go in and up well you have to actually revert the driver to an older driver and that will fool it and then every time you want to use chirp you need to go in and upload that same driver because windows will replace it because it's an old driver so you really don't want to do that you really want to get the right cable to begin with alright so once we have the right cable that we're we can download chirp just google it and find it and now chirp of course this is what you get shirt to start with new chirp it's a very that's very unintuitive what you need to do so I'm going to show you exactly what you need to do and there we use chirp so I'm gonna turn the plug my cable in turn my radio on volume max and click download from radio and I've selected my model at UVA t2 many of you are gonna have a UV 5r okay so let's go ahead and try now it says turn the radio off connect the cable make sure it's firmly connected and again you may have to use a rear and turn the radio on set it to 100% and then click OK and I can see right now it is not downloading so I'm gonna go ahead and cancel that or okay what I'm gonna do again now I'm gonna actually hold the plug into the cable download again and miraculously just because I'm holding my finger on the cable very tightly now it's going to download the radio so first thing we're doing is downloading the radio okay it didn't quite work let me get a rubber band and try doing this again alright now I've got it rubber banded and let's try it a second time okay excused to be cloning okay so the reason why we have to download the radio is because you can't yeah well there's several reasons I'll show you more reasons but you need to start with downloading the radio plus you can want to verify that it's actually talking to your radio okay so looks like right now my radio doesn't have any channels in it except for this this one here so now what we need to do is get a file that has all the channels that we want so I'm gonna switch over to the web and try to find the right file so if you google for FRS GM ARS channels or something to that variety you'll probably end up at this site or something similar where it's got a long list of frequencies and names oh it's even got some instructor how nice of it I don't think it actually gave you all the instructions you need it though so what we're gonna do is we're gonna download this file and this is actually going to save it as a CS well we need down here around the download to my computer it's gonna save it as CS CSV file okay now the next thing we want to do is open this up in Excel but don't just open it up with your normal way let me show you it let me jump over there and show you so the problem in Excel is that you can actually see it not even not just Excel but this is in Dropbox it interprets this is actually Mart ma ro 6 but it interpreted to interpret it as mark 6 so we have to force Excel to not interpret things so we're gonna switch over to excel and I'm gonna instead of just opening the file which is is would interpret it incorrectly I'm actually going to go to the data tab and then open it from a tech CSV so I pointed to excel at the file that I downloaded here and what its gonna do is actually import it not as a regular range but it's a database which is okay go ahead and tell it to load I believe that you shouldn't have to do anything special in order to get it to load correctly let's go down here and check to see if yes so the ones that looked like dates are no longer dates okay so now what we need to do is we need to convert this from a from it's actually a database which is not what we wanted to arrange so we're gonna convert it to a range and it doesn't look like much happen but it's actually a second sheet this is the database no okay well anyways it is now a a database arranged that we can work with so now we need to make a couple of changes first of all there's a lot of different things in here that you can delete I left this FR s01 in here which is an FRS channel 0 which FRS radios don't have I left it in there just so one would correspond to one ok channel 1 is going to be FRS 1 so you got 1 through 14 the normal FRS and you got the gmrs 15 through 22 there's actually two sets of 15 through 22 these ones are for it's called duplex I won't get into it anyways FRS radios don't use these so I'm going to delete these so I'm gonna select it and do edit delete and then there's a bunch of things in here that you may or may not be interested in I've decided I'm not gonna use these ones these are for like business use gonna go ahead and and select these ones and delete these ones as well okay these are marine VHF channels is what I want and then way down at the end okay so these are weather channels I do want those weather channels but then we've got search-and-rescue ham etc I'm not gonna use those you can save them if you want okay let's go ahead and delete those next thing is the numbers are wrong okay so we used to have 92 rows now we don't you can use this excel autofill feature select the first two rows go down to the lower right of the cell where it becomes a plus and then just drag down until you get to the end and it'll automatically fill the correct numbers don't worry about the fact that the colors are off that's not a big deal okay so a couple other things we need to fix so the FRS radios have these privacy codes and the way it's set up right now this tone here means that it is using the privacy codes unfortunately the way the bow thing works if you set the code here you will not be able to change it later so the best thing to do is actually to get rid of this so I'm just gonna clear this cell see it'll probably delete actually let's clear the contents okay so now it's not it's gonna ignore these tone frequencies here by the way when you do if you do want to program it what you're gonna have to do is you're gonna actually have to I'll show you later okay so we've gotten rid of the tone frequencies for the FRS okay another thing that we want to do is you can choose which channels to scan over so I want to scan over the FRS and the GM GM RS and the marine I don't want to scan over the weather because if I want the weather I will manually listen to it so if we take a look this channel of this column here is called skip let's go down here for skip and you need to put in a capital S lowercase will not work capital S okay so now what we've got is 69 total channels with the weather the marine the gmrs the FRS by the way I'm not gonna go into this but the bow Fang is actually illegal for regular FRS gmrs usage because of the powers too high so you need to be a licensed ham operator I guess in order to be able to do that legally okay so let's save this now as a CSV file okay and what it's only going to save the active sheet which is fine okay so now let's go back to chirp okay now I'm going to open up that CSV file and here's all the frequencies so that's looking pretty good okay so the next step is we are going to try downloading the frequencies to this radio so I'm going to select radio all right yeah so problem is that I can't upload to the radio and if you take a look at this menu here that upload to radio is grayed the reason why it's grayed is because it's a generic file okay the CSV is a generic file it needs to know everything about the radio to upload to it and that is why we uploaded the radio so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy these frequencies you have to select all of them individual at well you have to select the specific rows if you select control a it'll copy a thousand rows and we're gonna click on row zero and paste so it's going to overwrite all those locations now the radio will allow it to be uploaded okay so I've got my radio here and I'm gonna click upload the radio and click OK now you notice this little light right here the light is flashing on the radio and that tells me that it's actually programming the radio correctly if what green light isn't flashing then it's not working and you can see my little rubber band solution there it's a silly but it's necessary I've read other reports that that's what's required okay so it's after it's finished downloading it's rebooting the radio okay so now we should have let's let's take this out first of all and then once we get that should be able to hear all the wonderful frequencies okay okay it's frequency mode so what I'm gonna do is going to turn off I'm gonna hold down the menu button on this UV 82 on the UV 5r there's a button to switch between frequency and channel mode okay so now it's in channel mode so looking at my report FRS zero one is four six two point five six two five okay and then we're gonna go channel two now you see the right channels but obviously it's not very friendly to look at this so we're gonna do is we're gonna go hit menu and then we're gonna go we have to change the name just scroll down here open for mode a and the mode B oh here we go mode F a so right now it's frequency I'll hit menu then I change it to not the channel but the name that menu again to go back and then I'm actually gonna change menu be as well to be the name okay oops I got channel a menu B should be the name Oh interesting invasion let's switch down to the lower so we're in the upper one out I'm a little icon hit this to go the upper light transmitting let's try to change it there we go okay so you switch between the two frequencies here so we're on Channel nine now here okay so that's channel 9 now here's a Motorola radio on frequency 9 cts s10 gonna go ahead and try to transmit and it works ok I'm gonna try to transmit from here if you want the upper channel you need to hold the upper button if you want the lower channel you need the lower button ok so you probably can't tell but it's not transmitting here the reason why is because the codes aren't right if I go and I change this code turn off the privacy code to zero now I'll wait clock times out so you can see it's a again it's hard for you to hear but it's actually it's testing testing that testing testing test testing so it's working so in case you don't know the privacy codes on an FRS radio are not really private what they do is they the receiver can choose which channels to listen to so this guy here I'll show you menu and I'm gonna you can go down 13 times or I'm just gonna hit 13 that takes me directly to it it's called the ctcs codes and so they're off for transmit and they're off for receive okay so this radio won't filter out anything anyone with any privacy code you can hear on this radio on channel 9 but when this guy was set to code then it's not gonna hear it so the question is how do you set the codes on here and this is the one big problem with these radios trying to talk with these radios is that you cannot on-the-fly program the CTCs so by going here and I go to transmit ctcs menu change it to one of the frequencies and I hit menu it turns it back off and that's because we've programmed this channel by chirp so what I'm gonna do is show you and I can't figure out any way to make it to override that I'm gonna show you how to program a single channel okay so let's first I'll take a look at the channels on that - okay that's channel 89 and then channel 127 there actually I'm not sure why Channel 127 is there because when I look at my file I don't think Channel 127 Oh actually Channel 127 is in the file I didn't even notice it but let's create a channel so first of all let's what we got to do is all these frequencies correspond to our agency in the reverse way all of these frequencies have a number to them okay you can google it online and see what the number is the other way you can do it is go in here let's see let's go to channel 9 so instead of that name name we can go look at the number okay so let's go back here to name okay Moda Hey okay so it's name now let's switch it to frequency okay so what we need is a frequency for 67.5 87 okay four six seven five eight seven so I'm gonna do is turn this off hold down the menu button to get it into frequency mode okay so what did I say I actually have to look this up because I didn't remember it okay it's four six seven channel 9 is 4 7 5 8 7 ok that is channel 9 let's just double check yeah it works so that's channel 9 now we need mu nu is change the CTE SS code and we have 13 to get me there so right now the trans man is off the menu go down and change it now these numbers again course there's numbers for each of these privacy codes and due to a quirk in how some brands work the first option in here this is code 1 then code 2 you skip okay so this is actually code we don't want this that's not a real code to on most brands this is three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven okay I'm gonna set on this let's go to okay so this is set to 911 this one I think I know it didn't stick okay let's try it again so one skip two three four five six eleven ninety 7.4 I know that's correct and then you have to exit to store it double check it is okay so that's the transmitted and you can also do the receive will do that so okay 97 for menu exit okay so let's just check this that's the feedback was showing that spoken to work testing testing testing that works okay so this is correct now how do I store this I go to menu and then what is the menus okay mmm channel okay hit menu and then you can go through all of these it's gonna take a long time I know that anything with a channel 0 0 whatever that channel is already occupied so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna jump to channel 99 okay that's an open channel and then I'm gonna hit menu it says receiving memory but really what it's doing storing the memory and then hit exit okay now let's check turn off hold the menu button okay it says channel mode so now this is supposed to be a channel alright I gotta change the display we're okay mode a set frequency will change it to name okay so let's go back down there's a 100 channel 127 I mean channel 99 so this is channel 99 I just set up channel 9 code 11 if I hold this down testing testing testing it works and then same thing here testing testing testing testing testing it works and just to show you again about the codes let's change the privacy code to 10 okay so now what's gonna happen this radio is set to receive on channel on privacy code 11 so when I try to broadcast on this it's not it shouldn't work testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing so what if you see the green light it's actually receiving something on channel but it's not actually playing anything over the speakers a little bit hard for you to tell over there let me go the other way so this is transmitting on 11 and this is supposed to mean you're only receiving on 10 code 10 testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing so the first time it actually did squawk but after that it didn't work and again these are not 100% secure that's an example of it that's not secure um so right so we've got that's how you would on the fly when you're out and somebody says oh hey let's do channel 2 privates code 5 in order to know for you to do that you're gonna have to do this and create a special channel for yourself also I wanted to show you that one too so this channel got in here we don't really want this I'll show you [Music] so oh there it is ma'am channel is twenty-seven Dell channel is 28 okay so I'm gonna go tell channel channel 127 it's already there because that's the channel I'm on confirmed okay so now when I go up 0 there is my channel 9 9 channel 127 is now missing alright some other things that we need to do with this radio oh yeah I want to show you scanning okay so now I can talk to my FRS radios VHF I've already got online let's go to 2200 ok so that's the highest I still get interference you know I walk 30 feet away from my computer I'm gonna get missiles but I want to show you is now how do you do scanning that's another common so I'll have to do is press and hold scanning and now it's gonna scan through all these channels it found something briefly on one of the marine channels my problems again if I walk away client computer I won't be having these quality shoes okay but let me just try to change transmitting on I have to wait till it gets back around transmit on nine I also want to show you to change at once okay but here we're gonna go we're gonna go wrap around and go to so I'm transmitting on nine now and as soon as it got to nine it started it stopped and now it's listening on nine okay so it stopped there I'm gonna cancel okay I'm gonna change to the lower channel by printing doesn't exit now I want to monitor ten nine all time okay so what I'm gonna do menu and one of these options is twelve TDR okay TDR that's dual oh gosh I can't remember what it is but this will allow me to do a dual watch on these channels so I turned this on okay so now what happens is that it'll always watch Channel nine even if I'm listening to you let's go to channels six I'm gonna try transmitting on Channel nine testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing yes it works so it does work Andy scanning okay let's try testing testing testing testing okay it sounds Channel nine on the scanning it should it should still work testing testing testing interesting I thought it wouldn't you should work um maybe it doesn't work I'm not sure but let's do something else let's go to 10 nine nine zero and there nine okay let's go back up so these are reading signals to less 8 to 14 days so these weather Tenon's are not being scanned because I removed the I put the s on these channels to skip them ok well that concludes my tutorial on how to program your bowel thing radio to work as an FRS or VHF radio I want to say that overall it's a great radio with one big problem and that is for FRS compatibility you can't just show up at an event and have somebody telling you oh let's be on channel 9 code privacy code 11 without having to go in and program a channel which is laborious and quite frankly it's a little bit challenging to do on the fly so that's a real big limitation these radios I really wish that they had thought that through and allowed you to be able to set the privacy code on any channel as it is the channels are locked there's no way to go back in without going to chirp and modify that channel you have to create a whole new channel like I did here for channel 99 so that's my that's my channel that I set up privacy codes but other than that it's let's say if you just want to talk to two FRS radios quite honestly I think you should go out and buy an FRS radio because it's so much easier to set the privacy codes if you just want a VHF radio you are very likely better off buying just a VHF radio because these guys even the waterproof ones don't float and for marine usage that's a serious consideration but the reason why I bought it is because I wanted to do both I didn't want to have to get two sets of radios marine radios are very expensive and they they they frequently have non-standard batteries this baofeng model is so popular you'll be able to get batteries for this thing forever versus like for example I was looking at a great little West Marine radio that there's no longer manufacture than you you can't buy the batteries and for it anymore so for that reason having a bowel thing radio you're probably likely to do well certainly very cheap that's for sure so with this knowledge of how to program in the the radio I think it's a pretty darn good radio the cable is annoying and even the best cables apparently have this problem where they don't program perfectly but at least I've shown you how to make sure they program by pushing that cable in I'm not sure if it's even worth returning that cable because the next one probably gonna be the exact same way but that's my review of the bow thing I've shown you how to get up and running with FRS and VHS as I was putting the finishing touches on this video I researched it some more and found that there is a option here under chirp to change the power for your radios so you can click on here and change the power from high to low and this will download to the radio and it actually will stick unfortunately I don't have a way to do that from the channels CSV file you'll have to wait until you bring it into chirp and download the radio but these do seem to stick so that's great also I researched it and as of may 2017 they actually allowed two watts in channels one through seven and 15 to 22 so the the UV 82 is and apparently there's no limits between channels 8 through 14 so I left 8 through 14 hi you might want to switch it to load just see you preserve batteries but you can now switch channels 1 through 7 and 15 through 22 to low and you are 100% legal at least as far as the transmission goes there's still some FCC rules about not having detachable antennas but I don't think you're going to be breaking any FCC laws by transmitting on these frequencies with this setting so even better I can even more fully strongly recommend that that's ok and there's no problem on the marine channels on the marine channels you don't generally want that to be as high as possible because you're trying to reach a boat that could be miles away from you so with that added I think it's another good recommendation for the bow things [Music]

Channel: MITEEman

Views: 57,074

Keywords: Baofeng, HAM radio, FRS, GMRS, VHF, Baofeng Programming, Baofeng Program, UV-82, UV-5R, Baofeng Programming Cable

Id: APG7Kx4_d78

Length: 33min 23sec (2003 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 28 2018