Easy Baofeng Repeater Programming - How To - TheSmokinApe 

Finally, someone that knows how to do simple instructions! Just got a couple of the uv-r5's and was kind of confused. Not anymore! Thanks!

finally after 5 "how to program repeaters..." videos, i finally got one that was clear and concise and easy to follow. no extra unimportant gibberish to confuse a noob. thank you for this. i finally managed to get my local repeaters programmed thanks to you.

This video is awesome! I have searched and attempted to find an easy way to program my Baofeng radios for nearly a year before finally finding this one. Thank you for making this so easy.

By far the easiest to follow instructions I’ve seen to date, this helped immensely, thanks!

Dude you are my hero. Way easier than I thought it would be. Once I got it down after the first one, the second one took less than 2 minutes. Thank you

Thank you, I am travelling and only brought my Baofang. I wanted to join a local net and needed to manually program a repeater. This video was extremely helpful. Thank you

Wow! This is so much easier than most instructions I've seen. They have you save the RX frequency to the channel#, then after entering the offset info, hit * and then save the TX frequency to the same channel (re-enter the channel #). My only qualm so far is that you can't mod a channel (like add a CTCSS code) and resave it. You have to delete the channel and start all over...which means no Alpha channel name if you originally named the channel using the computer.

Thank you for explaining this slowly and clearly.

Great video, just got one and I had no clue what I was doing. I'll try this to see if I can do it this weekend. Thanks for the video.

THANK YOU - this is exactly the type of video I was looking for!!!

Finally a direct, simple and easy to understand video... thank you sir...!!!

Been off the air about 7 years I was giving BAOFENG UV-5+PLUS l watch some videos but none as good as yours you were the one that got me back on the air l followed your steps one by one and when done l hit the repeater l will play with it some more and put some in memory That piece of paper with each was a big help. l aim a subscriber Thumbs up.

Love the simplicity of your videos.

At last...now i know how to get started...Thanks...excellent & clear instruction for newbie dumies like me!😊👍

Thank you for making the only clear and concise programming video for Baofeng.

This makes it look So much easier than all the others. You go *slow*, you speak *clearly* and you give us a simple recipe tool to work from. Halleluja!!! As soon as I finish my lunch of Tater Tots and tea, I’m going to proceed and finally. Get. This right!

Nice. I have a TYT MD-UV380. The steps are different, but your explanation of what is required to establish the correct settings for the repeater are clear. I can program from the keypad, but so far I've used the PC to do the deed. Thanks for the video.

Short and sweet. Exactly what I needed. Well done!

I literally watched your video, subscribed, then went and bought that same radio. I just got my technician's ticket 4 days ago. Thanks for a simple to understand video.

Once again you helped me program my Baofeng. First it was my UV-82 on Chirp and now it’s my Hesenate HT-5X3 tri-band that I got for....well I don’t know why I got it, but I programmed 1.25m repeaters without a problem. Thanks for all the education.

Just obtained one of these Baofeng radios and it is nowhere as difficult to program as I kept hearing thanks to your clear video. Great job!

great info dude thanks

Just unpacked my Baofeng. Clear & concise instructions. Very helpful! Thank you kindly 🙏

Nicely done video. Great job of explaining the topic.

The best tutorial. Concise and straightforward. Thanks.

i have only seen two of your videos and can tell im going to like your content.

Good video, thanks. I use chirp, but I wanted a good guide to add a repeater if I'm away from my normal area. This is a straightforward guide

Great job! Right to the point and a perfect repeater example.

You are da man! I've programmed it manually once, but I couldn't do it without a cheat sheet. (So I keep a cheat sheet in the pouch with the radio...lol)

Thanks for the Nice easy to follow tutorial.

Very helpful, you the man! Subscribed!!

thanks I needed your help and you supplied it. will be concentrating on CW as I progress through my learning experience. Guess I need a radio first.

Damn dude that was freaking easy thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to buy one for SKYWARN operations, I am a liaison with storm spotters and you nailed it... I really appreciate your time very well done... 73 Danny KI4TRP

Thx, always nice to walk through the basics!

Thanks for making the complex simple.

That was great, I thank you sir... MUCH BIG help!

You have to set transmit and receive frequency. If it is the same hit the menu button about 4 times to confirm both.

Excellent! Finally got it to work ☺️. Works for 8fHP also

Thanks much. You’ve made programming simple.

Very easy and simple way to put this thanks

Thanks for the great instructions. Also works on the uv-10r

Best video on programing this radio by far.I just subscribed👍

Thanks so much for your video. There are a lot of people who have no idea what they are doing making videos about programing the BF-F8HP. They don't know what order to do things in, where to go in the menu. They cut away because they screwed something up and don't tell you what they did off camera to fix the screw up. Your instructions worked perfectly and you made it easy. THANKS!!! And to all the people who think they know what they are doing but don't, just stop making videos. As a matter of fact I'm banning you from making RU-vid videos.

Thank you very well explained very good job sounds easy to follow I will be getting uv-5r shortly thank you again 73 Danny KI4TRP

You made it so easy thanks.

Video helped a ton thanks

Great info and instruction. Thank you!

Dude, this is the holy grail of programming a channel in an emergency in the field without tools, equipment or software! GLORIOUS!!! Oh, also... GLORIOUS!!!

Directions not clear. Got my wife pregnant.

10 videos.. all terrible. Yours.. PERFECT. TOTAL NOOB AND IT WORKED FIRST TRY. Thanks!!! Now I want to learn so much more!

very helpful, thanks so much !

Yep like I use to do in servicing commercial radio gear in the field .... program with laptop with a set of files for each company / utility while the laptop is doing it's thing programming the replacement temporary radio while I'm driving down the road =) Everything is set and ready to swap out radios and do the next call the same way .... bring back the repairs to the shop and fix and return them when all done =) SO the same thing I do with the radios I can program with CHIRP / RIG PROGRAMMING software for different events and areas needed =) Files labeled for the area and event =)

Holy crap. That was perfect.

bro...thanks for quick and easy tutorial...

After I save it as a channel do I need to to rest the menu to use any other frequency

Appreciate your help.

Is it possible to receive on 154.750 and broadcast on 423.750? The reason I ask is that I ordered a module that was supposed to be SA828-V and the supplier sent SA828-U so it can't receive on the 154mghz channel.

Very helpful video. If you save a repeater channel and want to go back to it later I would assume you select the VFO/MR to toggle from FREQ to CHAN mode and then just enter the desired channel? My radio only shows the UHF freqs on both the top/bottom in CHAN mode despite having programmed a few 2m repeaters. Without a band button, how do I toggle to VHF?

there are three repeaters in my area, i can get on two of them but one of them seems to not be working. i get the confirmation beep after i let off the ptt, and the other radios in my house light up and get a beep as if something was just transmitted but nothing was there. but the other two repeaters work fine, any ideas what i am doing wrong?

Great video! I was able to program a repeater as you described. When in Freq Mode I was able to hit the repeater, but when I saved it to a channel and switched to Channel Mode I couldn't activate the same repeater that I had just hit when in Freq Mode. Any idea why?

Easy peasey! Thanks Ape!

Perfect! Thx!

Wow, why do people have to be so technical in other videos. This is perfect, thanks

I have a Yaesu ft-60 as my main ht. Just got a UV-5r as a backup. (Two is one, one is none) This video was like the old Geico commercial, "So easy a caveman could do it." Much thanks. KI5FBZ 73

Hello sir how do I use my baofeng radio to call other countries.i already used local repeaters for local covered. But can they be used with my boafeng using Allstars or echolink to call other countries but without using computer. ?

Excellent ! Big help

Great vid! Im new to the game. Whats the B channel for and how do you scan same channel but both A and B. Thank you.

Thank you for showing this in plain English!!! It seems like every RU-vid video directs you to a website and I just can’t find this information. I know the basics but what I’m confused about... my understanding is it’s ok to listen RX not transmit TX... however I want to listen to the ISS and to my understanding you have to connect to a repeater. Now to do so you have to hit the PTT which would be transmitting correct? Idk, I just got this and I’m a little confused. Like I understood how to navigate the menu and new I needed an offset however wasn’t sure how I would (theoretically) hit a repeater and bounce off that if I was licensed and wanted to talk from say NY state to Colorado for example I have this GT-3TP Mark iii with this proprietary Radioddity antenna that doesn’t work for beans IMO. I just ordered a UV-5R and a couple antennas so we’ll see. I’m in western NY so I’m gonna try and find the ISS frequency... I know they’ll be overhead about 10:30pm so maybe I’ll get lucky and catch a broadcast Lol

Thanks for a good video.

In your video, is the 145.290 the receive frequency (repeater output frequency)? And the -0.6 offset the transmit frequency? Or is it the other way around?

Way to comp.. Selling mine at the summer yard sale!!

thanks for the clarity. Can i program a digital repeater tone into a UV59? Ex-443.800 uses D315 / D315 +5 offset. thx

hi can i connect 2 pcs uv5r in same repeater how can I rx and tx of my two uv5r

Thank you for the clear, concise instruction free of funny anecdotes about your cat, or idiot neighbor.

I did exactly like you said. If I stay on frequency it will transmit and receive with repeater sending signal. When I switch to channel mode, it saved, but does not offset. Stays on receive frequency when pushing in talk button. While on channel mode, I hit menu, go through all changes made, and all changes are correct except the offset. This shows all 000000's. Not sure what to do from here

Have you used the tenway UV-5R pro? its like the 8W UV-5R. seems the same interface though. but.. im having issues with CHIRP, says radio not responding, when i try and download the template/channels I tried Tenway's app.. but the tutorial was in chinese baha

Hello. My question is, when I program my radio for a repeater, will my frequency that I programed for my simplex communication for hiking, will the repeater pick that simplex frequency up automatically? Great video, will subscribe.

This question probably sounds dumb, but what do you do about the squelch code? Like should the repeater have a squelch code to use? If so how do I find it?

Question. Is there a way to program the baofeng itself as a repeater? I would like to extend the range of it. Do you have any instructions?

great video

If the listed repeater tone on repeaterbook.com is CSQ, does that mean no tone is required beyond the carrier? If this is accurate, do I need to set T-CTCS to "off" on my radio?

Thanks smoking ape 7's 👍🏾

Great video! Question however. So I’ve saved the channel with its offset and CTCS. Now if I want to go around scanning regular frequencies can I turn all those settings off ? Once I scan through saved channels will my radio automatically apply the settings again ? I hope that makes sense

Looking at RepeaterBook they list repeaters by Uplink and Downlink. Which frequency is transmit (from me to it) and which is receive (from it to me)? I seem to get no response, and therefore question whether I’ve got it right or wrong.

Hi. Iv got the baofeng f8iii which is a triband. It starts at 136.000. I was just wondering if its possible to get it to start at 108 as 108 to 136 is our airband. Is that possible? I think its AM and not FM.. would it require a diffrent modulation chip to do AM?

a negative direction means you are gonna transmit on the frequency which is your current frequency minus the offset?

would you normally expect, that after you keyed up at the end of your video, for the repeater to respond? or is that only for some repeaters?

Don't you also have to go back to the VFO mode and save it again to the same channel to save the tranmit frequency? I'm playing with a different model and wondering how to turn the tone "on"? Maybe it doesn't matter if I hear it or not? hmmmm Great video as always.

Question. Went to repeaterbook.com, good info there. My question is, when I do menu 13 to set T-CTCS, is that the tone in/out that’s on repeaterbook?

l was able to hit a couple of repeaters today and when they opened they gave out their call sign, not meany receptors near me, hard to hit them with a handheld radio. Thanks once more.

I have a set of vhf radios motorollas and another set of uhf motorollas cp200. Witch radios will be better range and quality to use on repeaters.

Do U need program the offset TX f also ? by press '*" ?

I am verry confused. After connecting to a repeater how can I communicate with another 2-way radio say my friend with the same frequency as my radio? How can I enter that frequency when the repeater's frequency is on the way? Will all my transmissions from then on will go through the repeater? Can I disable the repeater if I don't want to use it and then activate it again?

Thank you good sir.

Nice presentation. Now if only I could assign 146.52 to Channel Zero on my GT-5R without using Chirp because I want to learn how to add a repeater or simplex frequency on the fly.

Do you do zoom teachings? Having trouble getting this done...

I have two (2) Baofeng UV-5Rs. I have them set and programed identically the same in the menu. I also have them on the same frequency. When I transmit from Baofeng radio # 1 to Baofeng radio # 2 it works fine however when I try to transmit from Baofeng radio # 2 to Baofeng radio # 1, the Baofeng radio # 1 will not pick up the transmission from the other Baofeng radio #2. SO I cannot hear any signal/transmission from Baofeng radio # 1. Do you think there is something wrong with Baofeng radio # 1? The programming software are set to the same settings. I went through each of them one by one and all are the exact same. I had the volume turn up when I started this so its not an issue with the volume. I do know that when I transmit from Baofeng radio # 1 to Baofeng radio # 2 the red light comes on indicating that I am transmitting all while the green light comes on on the Baofeng radio # 2 when it receives the transmission from Baofeng radio # 1. However when I try to transmit from Baofeng radio # 2 to Baofeng radio # 1 there are no led lights (green or Red) showing on either one of Baofeng radio # 1 or Baofeng radio # 2.

ls there a setting in the menu that will allow me to hear the call sign of the repeater when l key up the repeater l know l was able to hear it when l had a mobile 2m unit in my car, it has been a while since l was on the air.

Wanna use it for airsoft team communication. Does it need any programming?