What can you receive scanning with a cheap £25 BAOFENG UV5R. Scanning in FM using an extended fake Nagoya Antenna NA771. These radios are great fun but just be sure you do not get scammed with a cheap fake radio.
Having great fun listening on mine whilst out walking the dog or to work. As well as the Ham repeaters, have heard construction workers, hotel staff, kids on play walkie talkies, and someone putting an order in for an ounce of weed. No maritime or air traffic for me yet though, I'll keep listening :)
@@londo776 You can however force the baofeng to tune to as low as around 120 MHZ and receive AM signals by tuning slightly off frequency to allow detection although they will sound distorted...
That was an aircraft ground repeater on FM from some airport nearby. Mostly so that ground staff are aware of aircraft movements and engine starts and pushbacks.
Used to have on one these years ago to as a scanner did manage to get to speak to the computer with no problems but with eveeybody going over to digital there was less and less to listen to, even most of the taxi companies have moved to digital and bus companies to so frequenciea are dead up here now. I live on the coast and even the marine bands are very quiet. Do still listen to the air bands and if i am really lucky might hear some ships. But good little radio and it does what said on the tin.
2m calling channel is 145.500, 145.525 is used for rsgb news broadcasts on Sunday mornings, otherwise it is usually just a normal communication channel.
I just ordered the tri-band model with fake 771 antenna. The first thing I'm doing with it will be to reprogram with chirp, turning off all duplex, just to make sure I don't accidentally tx.
The last conversation was definitely air traffic control of some sorts as they were discussing flight levels and was typical chat for aircraft. The frequency you were on though was just outside the proper range though which was odd. They also use AM which is why it sounded a little off. Airband uses 117.975 - 137. These days it's moved from 25 KHz spacing to 8.33 KHz spacing. You can sometimes hear airband on 400 (ish) MHz if near the airport.
Hi, i used the Data Cabel and the Programm Chirp. It easy to programming. Mostly Frequencies PMR and Marine Traffic Channels i use to SWL it. 73 from Baltic Sea Coast.
In the USA 108MHz to 138Mhz is used for Civil Aviation and formerly in the 1970s to the mid 1990s a slice of that (128MHz to 142MHz) was for police and emergency services but no more as they are now on 520MHz Digitally Encrypted signals. Civilian Aviation now has the whole pie to themselves. But as for you in the UK? I am not sure.
Hey Fred, I'm looking for a cheap handie just for Marine and PMR receiving only. Ive got a pmr handie and was going to get a marine tx/rx handie but I'm thinking it's better to get something like this or a Baofeng T1 or CRT FP00 or similar, what do you think? Thanks fella 😉
Hello Fred , using a Baofeng UV5 in Italy with even a slightly bigger antenna will result in no signals at all and you will be needing a notch filter 88- 108 mhz . my suggestion is to go up a level and getr the Yaesu FT4XE that works fine even with base antennas (in my case X200) 73's 1RC355
I have of these but after checking things out they are copys including battery packs had bought 2 of those long antennas but a video they may not even match the radio so dont use them dont want to burn them out
Schools using unencrypted public channels seems a bit daft these days maybe, mind you it would be a great way for me to find out if my boys are causing trouble (again) 🤷♂️🤦♂️
@@Superfandangoo No Norty, PMR has thousands of licenced channels with maximum power levels typically of up to 25 Watts. PMR 446, by contrast has 16 channels with a maximum ERP of 500 mW
@@annax5212 Yes you can. I use an old uniden scanner I purchased for a great price and it picks up air band. I posted a video on it capturing audio from ISS .
I have a question. Can’t find the answer. In my am radio if I cut the wire from antenna rod. Is it possible to get a station and or voice to come through?? By cutting am wire is this the equivalent to removing the fm antenna from radio ??
@@CB-RADIO-UK thank you so much for answering! Let me clarify something. I disconnected the am wires from the board and the wires hang loose. So all that remains is the am antenna .Is this still the same as removing fm telescopic metal antenna??
@@bgood213 Think your talking about an AM /FM radio? If so you have a ferrite rod antenna built in the radio for AM and the telescopic antenna for FM. If you desolder the AM ferrite antenna you will lose AM reception but will keep FM.
Had a couple of these radios for what you pay for them there a bargain, as for the so called copies/fake what do they look like or how can you tell ? because you only can normally buy them off ebay or Amazon , don't know of any radio shops that sell them either , plus what is ironic the Baofengs range are Chinese copies of other radios anyway so bit silly selling a copy/fake that's already a copy of something
@@CB-RADIO-UK But how do you know its actually a fake Fred ?, I and a few of my friends brought these back when they wasn't that much brought and accepted within the radio community as being classed as cheap Chinese crap lol and even back then and still now the quality control wasn't and isn't exactly brilliant so what other things say its a fake. also did you know the company Pofeng is also Baofeng too and Sansonic and as for the Nagoya antennas I've used both genuine and so called fake and one of the fake ones worked better than the genuine 🙂
I'm a bit of a novice and wanted to listen to try and learn and see if this is a hobby for me. For some reason mine will not let me type in half the frequencies that most RU-vidrs are showing. Help would be gratefully received.
Hi. Iam no expert but you might have to buy the USB programming lead and program it on a computer using free CHIRP software. You should be able to put any freq withing the radios tuning range into memory.
Hi Fred lovely video mate and very well said about the fakes ones . Fred can you help me out I’m After the radio ss6900 files to install uk 40 on this radio mate SS6900 struggling to find
I have just bought a baofeng bf f8 plus....looking a better antenna for it... problem i have is it goes 400.000-520.000...an most replacement only go 400.000-480.00....wahat are my options....mamy thanks
May have said this before, RNLI and RAF search and rescue operations occur on "channel Zero" 160.600 offset - 4.600 (156.000) Can be interesting listening when you see lifeboats or coastguard active.
Anyway if identifying a fake. There is, they stopped making them in 2014 so all fake, I had one in 2016, it didn't last a day. Think I will get the CRT FP00 for a cheap backpack radio
Pretty sad, some of the things that are considered terrorism these days. Love my Baofeng although I'm also looking for a proper scanner so I can get the AM air band.
The first person in the radio sounds like a dutchman (Alex die host ad die hengel)thats crazy because we are no longer allowed to fish in the english waters 😃
ok ive heard two people talking to each other and thats it. why cant i get my freq over 145? it wont go to 146 and above. ive unlocked it with the 3 button thing but still wont go up further.
I did a basic guide on this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rt5rdMw0yWs.html This one might help also ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3-R28hBPwuQ.html
Surprised you have anything left that isn't "digitally encrypted" in your area. All of the scanner radio traffic is pretty much gone in my area. Down east Maine / New Brunswick. I live in a border town and scanner traffic is almost completely dead around here. On both sides of the border. How all these poor States and Provinces can afford to subscribe to these very expensive encrypted services .. puzzles me.
