Baofeng Airband 

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As a newbee and only interested in airband at this time, I found this extremely useful and very gratefull so many thanks. Now subscribed and watching!👍

Thank you! Great explanation on Air Band.

I am new to this science and I am very impressed with your clear and easily followed explanations. Thank you. Subscribed.

It always blows myind how strong the beacon is from the international airport near my home. It's about 47 miles and is extremely loud and clear here. It's very much the best possible line of site between us though. No mountains and no hills period. Just trees and not even many structures. It's clear on am and fm. Like you said, they also broadcast in fm.

very good explanation

Very well done! Thank you!!!

Thanks for the “theory”.

Interesting. I am about to purchase a UV 5RH but did not know there were two versions. I am also seeing a UV5RM which seems to be these same radio, but can not find any info on it.

Is there a way to unlock airband on uv5rh v2 with modification?

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the part I dont understand is they market it as transceiver. Which alternative to ICOM price wise can also SEND signal? Im looking for one but ICOM price is really expensive as I will be flying gyrocopters for example. Or lightweight aircraft

Skip to 10:40 to hear it receive. It’s not bad actually. It’s not as clear as my actual airband transceiver (FTA550L), but it’s certainly readable.

U need 8.33 step size there's loads of 8.33 freqs in use, sometimes done freqs are ok slightly off but prefer to have 8.33 capable radios

In the Uv-5r is possible to hear 118 to 129 frequencies?

I hear both, aircraft and ground control on my quansheng

I got my UV-5RM 8W "multiband" same as RH open versions - but the AM Airband is not true modulated AM i suspect . very bad , picks up planes well but sounds FM on AM. impossible to make out what they say. Newest Chirp 23 dec got UV5RM added now

I sounds great, way better than my Quanshengs.💪😄

Used to be 25khz......but not now....spacing for airband am is 8.33khz now. I wonder.....have you any experience with the Baofeng UV-17M airband capable hand held....looks promising.....up to now I struggle to find a budget hand held with good am airband.....I dont want to p[ay silly Uniden 1215 sort of money. Can I ask.....your demo of 128.175 was scratchy..... how far from the tower are you.....and what antenna,. Nick 2E0LPL.....life long airband listener.

Bought a UV-17 pro with airband....at £29 I thought take a chance.....my old hand held bit the dust. I tried one of these walkie talkies a year or so ago with air band not Baofeng....it was useless got a refund as I got it off an UK supplier. The Baofeng was from China so I knew if no good I would be stuck with it....and my thoughts where if its a Baofeng good chance it will be acceptable. Well I was wrong.....the AM Airband on the radio was useless....any signal with any sort of strength was so distorted to be more or less unreadable....the odd weak station may have been clear enough to make out. I am a licenced radio ham in the UK so not a total loss as I can use the 2m and 70 cm allocation that on this radio.....and to be fair the FM side was very good.....great reports from a radio chum 5 miles away. But as I already have 2 baofengs I didn't really need a 3rd one....my advice....keep your money in your pocket. But I still needed a hand held for my visits to the airport on my motor bike.....I already have 2 very good base station scanners....both realistic prob 30 years old...still doing a great job. There really is not much choice for small hand held Airband Scanners....those that are are silly prices.....Uniden seem to have cornered the market....£160 is a rip off for the UBC 125. But then I discovered the cheaper EZI-33-XLT....at £85 I could live with it....civil only airband....no prob as Mil dont interest me. Is the EZI-33 any good....yes clear....even at the airport with a 737 50mts away transmitting....audio was find....again...the 737 50 mtrs away....up at my ear...fine....and even not overloaded when hooked up to my very good external house chimney mount antenna. The manual is quite poor though.....I dont need a PC to load freq....just program it from the key pad.....took me a day to figure that out.....and I am very used to scanners. Nick 2E0LPL.

I Did SomethinG to My Old UV5R And Now I Can Tranceive From 130 To 176MHz Wich Is Crazy, I Have Videos To back It Up And I Can Transmit On Them Air Band To, Butt I Would Never Do Such Thing. All I Do Is Try To Hack Or Mod Devices And Try To Make A Good HF Filter For The SDR I Have So I Can Listen In To Russian And Ukrainian Broadcasts, I have ANtenna, 14 Element Yagi Pointed At The Border And My Location Perfectly Lines Up With It !x

version 1 best recive signl

It’s funny but when I talk to the controller while another plane station is talking the controller hears a high pitched carrier peeping chime and gurgled half canceled, half modulated voices.

Its funny, 90% of the scanner-radio owners wants to listen to airband, 90% of them dont understand the terms and the special "flight-english" used! Lol!

cheaper with a Quansheng