TNFrank

COSTCO in Avondale, AZ uses it but I've never tuned in to see if I could hear anything. I plan on using Blue Dot or Green Dot when I'm Out and About to keep in touch with friends who have radios since they'll probably be less traffic on it then on GMRS.

Nice, I'm glad you found a solution. I'm too cheap to pay for software, that's why I run MX Linux on my old AIO computer, LOL. The UV 17(R,H,?,whatever it is)Pro GPS seems to work ok with the Modified Software you can download for it. I just wish I could put different Zones on the A and B channel but I guess the BF F8HP Pro(with GPS) is the model you'd need to do that. It's $70, The 17 Pro was only $33 so about half the price and the GPS actually works too. So far(knock on wood) I've not had any bleed over of channels from the Zones with the 1.07 Firmware. Maybe they've fixed it. I know the 1.03 is newer but I don't want to chance bricking the radio so I'll run what came on it.

I've sent them back and I'm going to try the UV-17r Pro GPS. CHIRP does support it.

A guy on YouTube did a different radio with similar software and it wasn't anything he input, it was some preset codes. All that aside, the radio wouldn't work with the software for programming so I've returned them and I'm going to give the UV-17r Pro GPS radio a try. It's CHIRP compatible.

Just don't feel like messing with these radios. They're getting sent back. I guess that low price for a GPS enabled radio WAS just Too Good to be True.

So, I got the two 5RH Pro GPS radios today. I have the Baofeng programming software downloaded and running. Now for the issue, it can't read the radio. I tried my normal cable that works for all of my other radios and I tried the one Baofeng provided. It simply fails to read. Crazy thing is I can download a power on picture to the radio so I know the cable is plugged in properly and the radio is getting signal, it's just a No Go for reading or writing anything else to the radio. I really don't want to program all the channels by hand using the front panel since when I did try and wanted to name the channel it was all Chinese letters. Anyone else have these radios and having issues like this? Also, CHIRP is no help since this radio it too new to be supported. Anyway, I'm going to do more research and watch some YouTube videos to see if I can figure this out and if any of ya'll come up with anything please let me know. Thanks.

None of those passwords worked. I reached out to Baofeng to see if they could provide the passwords needed. Thanks for trying.

So it'd be the radio password IF I'd have created one otherwise it's be a more generic one. I'll give it a try, thanks.

I ordered a couple of the new Baofeng UV-5RM Pro GPS radios and was looking over the Baofeng programming software. There's a couple areas(Program Password, Frequency Range, Embed Information) where they ask for a Password to unlock it. Does anyone know what it might be? I looked at the Baofeng website but there's nothing there about this issue. Thanks.

I ordered a couple M-5R Baofeng Radios for work(wanted something smaller than the TalkPod A36 I'm currently using)and I did open a blank .csv file and did an input from a UV-5R program I had saved then added Air Bands to it and saved it off with no issues at all. That way I'll have the code plug ready when the radios get here tomorrow. I've also ordered 2 more AR-5RM's during Prime Day($33 bucks plus shipping, can't beat that deal) and set them up to scan Air Bands. I also ordered a couple 120MHz-300MHz antennas for them so they should work better picking up Air Bands AND with MURS with would be my "Go To" if I'm out and about since the VHF Freq. will theoretically travel further and I'm also being a "Bad Boy" and running them on High Power since no one really uses MURS anyway. LOL. All in all once you figure out a couple of the quirks that these radios have I still think they're one of the best "Bang for the Buck" deals you can get.

Or they were just making a movie and needed a cheap radio to use as a prop.

Did anyone else notice the Baofeng radios used in "Godzilla X Kong". Seems like a high tech operation would use something a bit Higher End than a $20 Baofeng radio for their operations.

I've been thinking about getting into setting up a node but I'd like to get a few friends to set up nodes so we'd have a small mesh in our area. All the other nodes are either too far North or East to be of any use to me where I live. It'd also be nice if the power could be boosted to a couple watts so you could get more range so it'd be more useful.

I second this choice mainly because that's what I have in the truck. All the controls are on the hand-set so you can mount the base where ever you want it. Only draw back is that it doesn't go below 5 Watts so channels 8-14 can't be used to TX but all the other GMRS channels are good. I also have 4 of our local DPS channels programed to scan while I'm driving to keep track of what's going on on the roads. Tests show 15-16 watt output so it's not a true 20 watt but close enough and the price isn't too bad. You also get the BTech quality and customer service which is a plus.

As some of you may know CHIRP isn't reading my AR-5RM radio. It's NOT the cable and I've tried both 5RM and UV-17 Pro with Zero results. The factory program from Baofeng works with the exception of adding Airband Frequencies in the program. I did find out that I can manually add the Airband frequencies to the radio then go into the program and update the name and scan delete so they'll not be scanned when I'm scanning my DPS channels. So, you can get Airband on the radio, it just has to be done manually first then modified after they're entered with the program. Hope this might help someone out who's having a similar issue.

I know it wouldn't TX on MURS but the AR does. I had the same issue with CHIRP so I'm going to return the UV-5RM Plus. I may get another AR-5RM at a later date because I do like the power level and it's nice having a large battery that'd usb-c chargeable.

Same "no read" issue with the UV-5RM Plus that I have with the AR-5RM in CHIRP. Baofeng software reads the radio but you can't program Airband and the UV won't accept the saved AR radio program so I'll have to enter everything I'm the program by hand.

The UV-5RM Plus has the same issue, no go with CHIRP but it'll read with factory program. Oddly enough I can't write the program I hand wrote and saved for the AR-5RM into the UV-5RM Plus even though it technically be the same radio. I'll have to read the UV-5RM Plus then delete each channel and rewrite the new channels into it. I did test the power level of the AR and it's not too bad, I need to check the UV now.

Mine is the "M" version because it has the Scramble function in the menu and I can monitor Airbands if I use VFO mode.

Yes, I did. If it was a loose connection it wouldn't work with the factory program but it reads the radio just fine with the factory program so it's NOT a loose cable.

I just ordered a UV-5RM Plus, it'll be here tomorrow and I'll see if it responds differently to CHIRP than the AR-5RM. It'd probably going to be the same radio just with different stickers but you never know. Either way it'd be good to have 2 of the higher powered radios. I'll post the results.

Yes, same cable. Com5, on UV-5R, 805G, A36 Plus. I had to use a different cable for the BTech 20V in the truck but CHIRP still worked just fine.

Chirp simply gives the error, Unable to read the radio. It's not the cable since the same cable works just fine to read the radio with the factory program and Chirp works fine with my other radios. There's just something about the AR-5RM that I got that doesn't work with Chirp. Also, I don't need drivers for my cable, I got the one with the built in driver chip set.

There's already been bug reports put in for this. I downloaded the Baofeng UV-17 Pro software and extracted and installed it and it's identical to the 5RM software.

I'm running the same version of CHIRP and my radio is the same firmware version. CHIRP simply can't read the radio and I've tried 3 different cables so it not the cable. As I stated, Miklor said that the factory programing software won't allow Airband input. I'll just going to use my A36 Plus for Airbands if I want to listen to them.