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Thank you very much!!

Good chance it's dead, email them and they'll send out a new one for you. QC seems to be nearly non existent with them. Good radios are good and usually stay that way, bad radios usually come in dead and there's no reviving them. I have 2 dead ones that eventually I'll pull apart to see if it's just a bad solder joint or something simple. They do transmit, just not that far so the local oscillator is working.

I'm really that way also, just threw LZ out there as a joke. I can't think of a genre of music that doesn't have something I don't like in it. Mine is the a/c in the shack, seems to warble a nice mark/space after those RTTY Contests go silent.

No, not for most radios. His combination of previous batteries resulted in charging voltages after charge completion, that were too high for the radio.

Is this true in general?

Workarounds are the industry standard. My dead radios came in dead. Never even saw a charge cycle.

The battery isn't - the contacts are on the inside face. It's a 5RM or 5RH variant not a UV-5R.

So TIDRadio said they're sending me a new one. They also said this in the email: "Tip: When charging, please separate the battery from the walkie-talkie and charge the battery alone. This can provide the best protection for both the battery and the device." Tell me the batteries are defective without telling me the batteries are defective.

You typed that like it is a BAD thing.

I hope you lick this thing. You are very brave.

Are the accessories on this model compatible with UV-5R accessories, specifically the higher capacity UV-5R batteries?

Thank you for sharing your insider knowledge.

The story I heard wasn't about a place name. It was that Baofeng is a family name and the family objected to its use for these radios. That's when I first started seeing Pofung as a brand. But I wasn't referring to branding but rather what it shows on the manufacturer label on the back of a recent radio I bought. And as far as that Fuji Nana stuff goes, I've also seen other stuff like Quansheng Electronics. It's apparently whatever they want to call it - neither companies nor brands mean the same thing in China as here. My UV-5G says "Po Fung Electronic(HK) International Group Company" and that's from 2022. p.s. I don't know what your Pro version is but the BFF9 I got (supposed to have been an improved BFF8 with 8 watts like an HP) was terrible, extremely low power on 440 and same as 5W models on 2m. Worst UV5R type I ever got.

As a musician, there are far too many bands I like to call only one a favorite I always enjoy hearing my refrigerator calling "cq fd" when it squeaks after the contest ends

RG400 is silver plated conductors, double shield and Teflon dielectric. It's what Motorola specifically uses for all their commercial radio jumpers up to 800 Mhz. If you are not familiar with putting connectors on cables, it's a better move to just buy premade jumpers that are pretested and verified to be good. The bit of extra money is worth the piece of mind you get in knowing they will work and are assembled correctly. For 50 or 100 watts, its fine, the losses are not that significant in the 24 inches of cable that going to a different cable would really make a difference in system performance. And the cable is flexible enough that you don't have to fight it like you would LMR400 or any other .429 diameter RG8 class cable. If you REALLY can't be convinced that it's the right stuff however and want that extra diameter, the go with RG393 jumpers. Same construction as RG400 / RG142 (142 is a solid center conductor) but it's the .429 diameter. Your looking at about 15 bucks a FOOT for 393 if it brand name like Belden. And if you ARE going to build your own cables, buy brand name connectors and not the crap on Amazon. There are good connectors on Amazon, but there is some really cheap stuff too that for a repeater, I just wouldn't bother. Remember that repeaters are a fixed station. Meaning once you install it at a location, it's just gonna be there. They don't get moved around like from place to place. Better 'stuff' being used to build it means less screwing with it and less problems down the road.

Technically, they're "Fujian [Nan’an] Baofeng Electronics Co." The Pofung business was because they never trademarked Baofeng in the US (it is a place name, so it would be like trying to trademark "Miami"). But someone trademark-squatted in the US and it took Baofeng quite some time to get the trademark assignment invalidated and assigned to them. During that period, radios intended for import into the US were labeled Pofung. Any Baofeng OEM customer can request whatever labeling they want (within reason, presumably Baofeng would reject a request to label any of their products as "Motorola"). Some of their OEM customers seem to still be requesting the Pofung branding, simply because it isn't as well-known in the US.

My understanding is that if the radio itself is branded as BTECH, it is contract manufactured for them to their specs (by someone other than Baofeng). If the radio itself is branded as Baofeng (regardless of whether the box only says BTECH), it is a customized model from Baofeng which is usually (always?) exclusive to BTECH. For example, the UV-82HP is a BTECH exclusive, although there are generic tri-power UV-82s. My work on the BF-F8HP Pro (a BTECH exclusive) shows that BTECH is listening to customer feedback (many requests from Facebook, here, and other places) and it has been incorporated into the two firmware updates released so far, with more to come). It is also quite ahead of other analog Baofeng handhelds in terms of features, bug fixes, and programming software (Disclaimer: I write the Windows CPS programming software for the BF-F8HP Pro and co-manage firmware development, as well as dabbling in documentation. However, nothing I post should be considered an official statement of BTECH.) Speaking of the BF-F8HP Pro, if you use coupon code "CPS" at checkout you'll get 20% off (on that model only, and only on the BTECH website, not on Amazon). I should point out that the BF-F8HP Pro is not type approved for GMRS use, but since the equipment reviews rules were relaxed a while ago to allow discussions of non-GMRS equipment due to the overlap between the GMRS and ham communities, mentioning it here should be OK.

Personally, I've always liked Led Zeppelin as my favorite band. 20 m CW and Phone were my go to's for FD this year. Very limited Op time as usual due to annual Family do's that weekend. But managed contacts on the bands from 40-6m working a 1E station

Even better

Fixed. (Apologies to non-sad HAMS, but that was some low-hanging comedic fruit right there.)

This is the perfect place. I’m glad you’re feeling better and I hope for the best for you.

Ok that’s what I was hoping. The size doesn’t matter too much on such a short wire. I was going to get some rg400 and connectors from DX Engineering and crimp / solder it. But these Uxcell pre-made jumper cables are very tempting at $15 each. Seems like good reviews. I’m probably going to try them. I’ll check it with my SWR meter. But I’m not sure the SWR meter will tell me how good or bad they are?

I want to thank everyone for their help! I have not been on here for quite a while! I have stage four brain cancer and it has really taken a toll on me! I am feeling better for now thanks to the treatment! I still have difficulty with simple things, I am not sure I am putting my thanks in the correct place??? But everyone on here has very helpful with my questions and I see I have been on here for a year! Doesn’t seem like it!!! anyway my thanks to everyone!

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.

I have that antenna and it comes with an adapter, so for $34.89 he's all-in.