OPERATING ANY RADIO OR REPEATER USING ZELLO AND FIXING THAT UV5R TRANSMIT PROBLEM 

Yes I've used it for that 😎

Also, a great way to fry your radio. It's happened to many people when the vox settings were wrong and the talk stayed on

@@David-bg3ct Just about every radio has a time out timer option on TX

Yes I kind of wait but that's a good tip as not everyone realises 👍

You are most welcome, thanks for watching.

Yes but you only need to send out the signal to the Zello App. I know many here who fried radios when the Vox overheated

I used Zello years ago when it first started and it was genuinely great; there was lots of chatter on plenty of public groups. Then they removed the ability to wild search for any group of interest, all the good users left and the remaining diehards went to private groups. The app was effectively useless. I'm amazed it is still going, but somehow it limps on with a handful of users.

No worries

Thanks, it's a dummy load

@@knoxieman Thanks

Thanks for the comments sadly I don't have a Mac or access to one, it could be done on a Mac but you would need to use an audio interface, external USB sound device.

@@knoxieman Thanks Mate i will definitely look into what to buy to do it because i think its just so awesome your one sharp man i hope i can figure it out. you made it look so easy, LOL I look forward to your next video. Thanks Again Mate Cheers.

Zello only has a Windows PC client, so running it on a mac could be quite tricky. I've had success running it on Linux in WINE, so you may be able to do that on a mac. But if you're wanting to run other sofware and hook it up to a radio, like APRS for example, there are mac clients.

@@RobinPringle It just so happens that I was looking into APRS I'm not to familiar with it. I actually just learned about it by browsing RU-vid for a way to hook up Zello to my Mac but no success with that. Then I saw the APRS videos 📹 and I have a Android phone 📱 I could run the APRS application on it. Question is APRS a way to send text messages over the radio waves? Also is it really 🤔 worth it in your opinion. Because I just want to be able to reach a repeater in my local area when I am very far away from it. Like maybe running Zello on a old phone and hooking it up to the input of the radio from the output of the phone. That leaves me with a problem for the output of the radio how would I do that? Do you know if there is something I can buy to get it to work like a small device that will allow me to run the output from the radio to the input of a device that will allow for a audio input into the phone? Or how exactly could I do this if I only have a phone Android and also a IPhone and a IPad? So I can run Zello on one phone and it would key up my radio that is hooked up to my other phone. Instead of using a computer? Any chance you have the answer I am hoping for? Man that would be awesome if you have the answer to making it work that way. Thanks my friend for any help you can give me I'm very interested in making this happen.

​@@aragamuffinmessagerofthelo2309with something like the APRS-K2 cable baofengtech.com/aprs-k2-trrs-cable you can connect an iPhone or Android to your handheld radio. There are APRS apps for both Android and iPhone. You can send messages on APRS, also SMS through SMS gateways, have a look at smsgte.org. The APRS-K2 cable will work for the input and output between Zello on your phone and a radio too. You just need to enable vox on the radio and Zello. Doesn't work as well as on a PC though, you just need to mess around with the settings. Notifications etc. would need to be deactivated on the phone to avoid broadcasting them over RF

That sounds like the volume being fed to the radio from zello is too high to me.

Interesting to OFCOM too 🤣

Yes you can essentially link anything you receive over zello you just have to make sure when you go back out on the radio your licensed to transmit on that channel, in some countries re transmission of other people's transmission's isn't legal though so you would need to check that.

@@knoxieman Oh I find another way too. I use SDR it like a free police scanner on pc, that you can listen to NXDN, P25, DMR, and Provoice. So I I got my connection like that but a different way.

That's really strange, I must admit I've not tried that, is the audio device feeding in to the radio also grounded? It might be that, try plugging in your phone as the audio source.

I have the same situation, did you ever figure anything out? Works fine until I drop it in a charger. I have the 12 volt battery eliminator I’m going to try next to see if that helps, after that I’m out of ideas to try

@@scottmiller1776 I did., and I apologize for not posting sooner. For me it was turning the VOX level to 4 or 5 and that seemed to work. Very odd, but it works!

@@knoxieman thanks for getting back to me! I changed the VOX settings to 4 or 5 and it works!

@@scottmiller1776 also, some of the UV-5R chargers are, shall we say, not made the best? I have two and one of the chargers just doesn’t like to play well doing something similar as a simplex repeater. So there very well may be an issue with the wiring / power of the charger too. But play with the VOX settings first and see how that goes for you.

That little chirp is built into zello to let you know that the phone has made contact with the server and you are transmitting.

If your talking about the transmit power it's in the menu txp

@@knoxieman the rf attenuator to lower the rf output at your antenna?

Slow reply but just reading the comments, that's a dummy load, it reduces the signal being put out to comply with licence usage conditions.

Yep it works on el too

Yes the audio transformer enables the use of any radio that keys like this and is useful to have inline in any audio setup where ground loops could cause noise.

@@knoxieman Great! I would think if you have an isolator on both lines, then you are totally protected from any ground loops (if needed?). And by adding volume control switchs, to each lines, you can adjust the volume (audio power) going in either direction. Line 1: Would not over power the PC audio input. Line 2: Would adjust PC output power to the radio's input (mic). Basically fine tuning the system...maybe? I drew up plans, and estimated the total cost. Its about 1/3 the price a commercially made Signalink USB.

Yes it can't hurt at all running more than 1 isolation transformer, best of luck 😎👍

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If the radio is set up in duplex mode with the correct tones for the repeater, it should work.

@@JimNicholsMotorManiaGarage I actually was able to get this setup to work. I was having issues until I locked the transmit on the PC side of Zello and things functioned as they should. The ground loop is definitely needed for Baofeng radios in this application. I switched to a TYT MD-380 and could remove the loop. Good tutorial and useful for sure.

Yes

If you can hook up your radio then yes 👍

@@knoxieman I tried it but it wont work

@@knoxieman Also when I transmit through Zello to Radio the audio is not clear

@@knoxieman In Zello sir, what is your settings? Cause until now it won't work.

No one is saying the channel of the radio it self

You can use a old smartphone android with this app: APP Download: drive.google.com/file/d/1sFV0Iux-RK1h1w5TTsi9wEtstLxPtEn3/view Video with installation instructions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2HuIgYG972Q.html Download the connection cable diagram between the cell phone and the HT: drive.google.com/file/d/1-bg_Scv5dU9oOfF027ZmfmRdXkmFD2by/view

I live at the top of a valley at the bottom of the valley I get patchy cell coverage but I can still contact my property easily using my radio, in more remote locations there are probably others with the same problem so it's very useful being able to do this.