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Was that you pushing the shopping cart and wearing bunny slippers the other day?

It means everyone is leaving Ca, mostly the Bay Area

As in your call sign plus a unit number such as a wife, husband, father mother child brother….. so wrwr123 unit 2.

Well, looks like we are now in a all out tariff war with China.. Now,,, when will we see the effects in the cost and supplies. So far nothing,, I wonder if my Chinese radios (dozens) will be worth anything

Hell, you don't have to pick the trash. I'll give it to ya

I have what is probably a silly question, but I searched and couldn't find the answer. What does this mean?

On a side note been checking the vendor lists for the Hamvention in Xenia Ohio next month. https://www.make-it.ca/hamvention/ The inside booths are all sold out, or reserved. The notable thing is several of the big names are not going to be there. Alinco and Yeasu for two examples. Kenwood will be there but has a small foot print. So will Icom, and they look like they will have their usual huge display. The flea market looks like it's also mostly sold out too. This should be interesting given the crazy crap going on with traiffs right now. Hams buy a lot of imported gear of all types. Have to look and see what is going on price wise, and what kind of deals are being offered.

Thanks! Good point on not waiting for the squelch tail drop and its effect. That's something I didn't consider. My favorite repeater's squelch tail seems to be about 2 seconds and the talk out timer is about a minute. Considering your points, the weekly repeater event check-ing probably incentivizes people to break with the good practices. I'll listen to see if they fall back into good practice of letting the squelch tail drop after that. Thanks again.

Reminds me of an eBay ad once. The guy was selling a used Kenwood TK-2170 VHF radio for about $10. Normally they go for $50 to over a $100. The ad copy said the radio beeps, shuts off, the boots back up when trying to transmit. Seller thought it was defective. I had a few an knew exactly what the issue was. So I purchased it. Yup, it was a nearly dead battery pack. Radio worked perfect with a fully charged one. That was a supper good deal I just couldn't pass up.

Gives me something else to look for when out at night trash picking.

I've never used it on any of my radios. As mentioned previously on a repeater you can experience hearing the tone when the transmitting party's carrier drops, but the repeater's hang time keeps the repeater in transmit mode, thus blocking you when the BCL is active. Then you get another station jumps in and you still can't get on the repeater. If someone times out the repeater, you'll know quick enough. They get cut off in mid transmission. The other parties will let the guy that got cut off know soon enough. Experienced repeater users, randomly between themselves, will occasionally let the repeater's carrier drop, thus resetting the timer. I have even heard a user specifically mention they will wait for the repeater's carrier to drop for that purpose. I rarely hear a repeater getting timed out. On simplex, yeah one might use it. But if the simplex channel is busy the other stations likely will just switch to a currently unused channel anyway. Any interference would be temporary.

Nope, it didn't work and no bricked UV5R trying. All it got was a bunch of *** errors.

Yep, pretty much. Or if there's an environment with a lot of traffic and you may not notice you're stepping on someone who started transmitting just before you, I guess, but at that point, pick a different channel.

Thanks! That is a special case, indeed. To your point and more generalized, BUSYLOCK is useful with simplex comms in noisy environments?

I know it's weird, but I kinda want one... LOL

No don’t use it. I just listen. But what you’re experiencing on a repeater is squelch tail. No one should be talking before the tail drops. If you start talking before the tail drops your lumped in with the previous station on the talk out timer. Usually 2-3 min. If everyone just waits for the tail to drop it shouldnt be an issue. I also leave it off because if I need to break in for an emergency or priority I can.

Not usually, but I do when I'm in the race car and, even with molded earbuds, can't always hear whether or not my spotter's done transmitting. Other than that, no, no busy lock.

My enabling Busy Channel Lock (BUSYLOCK) on my radios seemed like a simple courtesy to reduce the chance of accidentally stepping on others. Before enabling it I did receive good advice that BUSYLOCK can disable a radio's ability to transmit in noisy or congested environments. I thought this risk acceptable risk since BUSYLOCK is easily disabled. What I didn't anticipate was the effect of BUSYLOCK had on my participation in repeater based events. The owner of my favorite repeater hosts a weekly event were participants start by checking-in. With a list of participates complete, he calls upon each to respond to the week's topic. It provides lighthearted discussion and opportunity to check out equipment. After enabling BUSYLOCK I found my attempts to check-in resulted in the BUSYLOCK error tone, even when I was sure the previous participant was done and no one else was attempting to talk in that moment. In my ignorance I did not consider the repeater's use of carrier delay (hang-in timer) on BUSYLOCK. With the repeater's carrier delay longer than it takes for participants, including the host, to realize the current speaker is done and there is an opportunity to talk I was effectively blocked. Now slightly less ignorant, I have disabled BUSYLOCK on my radios unless I find some future special case use. Does anyone have use for BUSYLOCK?

It sounds like you are getting an out of frequency tone. As @SteveShannon mentioned we’re going to need more information to help sort it out.

Or if the name has "Peoples Republic" I know the reason for Baofeng releasing the GT-5R was to clean up the SE on the earlier UV-5R radios. The UV-5R radios prior to the release of the GT-5R were pretty dirty. Though the front end was not improved on the GT-5R, it is still susceptible to front end overload. I have both radios and the GT-5R does a better job overall and is clean.

I LOVE!!! post like this. No info at all just a problem and a plead to fix it. But how? We know nothing about the situation? It’s like saying my car doesn’t run right what’s the problem? I’d bet it’s something very simple that has been over looked. Or it’s one of the many radios that have unexplained issues right out of the box. please give more info like already asked. Even a screen shot of the programming if possible.

Sounds like they took a nice radio and really screwed it up. I have none of those issues with the original. Worst issue is you get a dead transmit radio every once in a while, and they replace that. Ya, if you get in with them through email they will treat you right. I deal with Luxi and she hasn't lead me wrong yet. Gave me a UV26 to test and review. I like the H3 better.

1) it is still beta and buggy. That is to be expected being a beta product and I'll give them credit (big credit) for fast turnaround on updates, though each update breaks something else. 35 years in IT, I also expect that. Sometimes menu button works, other times it thinks it is the UP button. 2) Receive audio is weak. 3) Tx power is on par with other CCRs for GMRS, not quite what they state in the real world, but none of them do. This is a ham radio as well, 220 Tx is 0.1w. One tenth of a watt. 4) Options that could easily go on one of the PTTs are not available to map to it, you have to go into the menus. 5) Bluetooth ok with their app, but nothing else. Big miss, though apparently they are working on a BT speaker\mic for it. BT disconnects randomly. 6) Belt clip attached to the battery, not the case and there's no other external screws so no easy option for a counterpoise. 7) Ejecting the battery feels like it will break something every time, inserting again is like inserting a USB cable. Try. Fail. Try. Fail. Try again a third time the same exact way and it will click in. It is affordable and that carries a lot of weight, especially for the casual user or someone that just wants a small radio to talk to their buddies on the trail. As a RADIO radio, it isn't awesome. It isn't bad like a blister pack from Walmart with Spiderman on it, but up against similarly priced radios, it is at best, average once they get the bugs worked out. The H3 I've heard good things about (I don't own one), the Plus is not the same radio.

What's not awesome about it? I think the TDH3 is pretty awesome for the money.