SteveShannon

I’ve never seen a mobile radio designed to fit either a single DIN or two DIN space. Most mobile radios mount under the dash, in a bracket attached to the dash or console, or under the seat. You will need to check the dimensions of the radio you buy before ordering it. You probably won’t be transmitting on more than one radio at a time so a single power supply should be fine as long as it has enough current capacity.

For my hf ham radio transceivers and accessories. I have one of those powerpole distribution panels that I plug into the power supply. I plug my handheld chargers into it rather than powering each one with its own wall wart. I also plug in my tuner and SWR/wattmeter, but that’s a very light load. I was using a 30 amp Samlex switch mode power supply, but the fan started going on even though there was almost no load and while I was watching the internal voltmeter swung down to 5 volts, even though the output voltage remained rock steady according to my fluke. This 50 amp linear supply should be acoustically quieter. I never detected any RF noise from my switcher on any band.

I just ordered an Astron 50 amp linear power supply. From Gigaparts or DX Engineering it’s $200 more than from Ham Radio Outlet.

Astron makes really good (but not inexpensive) power supplies and they have a line of different ones with radio enclosures. https://www.astroncorp.com/slim-line-w-housing

Exactly!

I’ve never seen one. Even most ham radios designed to be used as base stations require an external power supply.

The band used to include 220-222 MHz. That portion was lost to ham radio so UPS could have it. They never did.

Nothing you said has been offensive but I don’t understand why you don’t want to be an eggplant.

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I hope you have a better day tomorrow.

Here’s what the menu shows for me:

Yes, for some people. I don’t know if it requires a premium membership or that you have risen to a certain rank.

If you already have the cord (others have provided link) you should be able to connect it to any power supply sold for use with two way radios. A switch mode power supply will be less expensive, lighter, and smaller. A linear power supply will be heavier and bigger but many people like them for their longevity.

Normally there’s a product box that fits the white plastic liner better. See how there’s a sizable gap between the plastic liner and the brown cardboard box? It looks like whoever shipped that to you removed the product box ( which is made of white tagboard and colorfully printed and fits inside the brown cardboard shipping container) and put the white liner with the radio in it and the plastic wrap directly into the corrugated cardboard shipping box. That may have been done to provide room around the inside of the shipping box for your longer antenna.

Getting back to the original post, it’s truly unimportant whether it was an original Baofeng box, an oversized shipping box, or something else entirely.. What’s important is that the OP must contact the vendor to get the antenna that was advertised.

Terri, that’s an impressive stack of uniformly sized boxes. At least through BTech, it appears that Baofeng has a standard single radio box. That makes sense from a cost standpoint. I wouldn’t want either a small rattler or a long antenna bent nearly double in one of those boxes. Randy, let Terri be. She’s one of the good ones we really want to keep. She doesn’t come here and act like one of the several resident assholes we’ve had. She backs up her points with facts, figures, and photos. I have no idea whether the boxes you’ve experienced are differently printed but same size (as her photos indicate happens) or whether you have received 34 different sizes, but the argument isn’t really important enough to drive one of the good ones away. I don’t doubt that some sellers bend 15” flexible antennas to fit the boxes, but one time it happened to me the antenna took on a bit of a permanent arch. A friend gifted me a Wouxun and couldn’t find the original rubber duck so he bent his 15” antenna into the outer shipping box and sent it instead. The other time I received a 15” antenna it was in my packaged with my very first Baofeng, in a larger box with a “covert earpiece”, a PTT microphone, a charger, etc. some of the pieces, like the antenna, were marked TidRadio, and others said Baofeng. Perhaps some value added reseller put together a special package of accessories as so many on the Amazon Marketplace do. In any case, it’s not important enough to berate people over.

Thank @OffRoaderX, he made the video.

YouTube, look for videos from the Notarubicon channel. One specifically describes configuring a radio for a repeater.

Mine can, but it’s an older model.

It hadn’t been nullified at the time of the video and banter. The FCC really should have made at least an attempt to announce it.

Portable devices typically are not grounded.

When I worked in Taiwan in 1992 that was something almost everyone there did, pick an anglicized name. It wasn’t done to mislead anyone, but rather to make it easier for English speakers to meet them and remember them. In my opinion there were way too many people who fit the mold of the “Ugly American” who couldn’t or wouldn’t even try to remember how Chinese names work. More than once I heard jerks say “Why can’t they have normal names like us?”

Some radios allow “selective calling” where you can send a code to one specific radio and it will listen while other radios ignore you.

The output power isn’t meaningless, but it has much less of an effect than the antenna height and gain. A 20 watt radio can easily transmit 100 miles if there are no obstructions, but obstructions are common. A fifty watt radio cannot overcome obstructions, but it can power its way through vegetation which might attenuate the signal of a less powerful radio until it cannot be detected. There are lots of threads which discuss which antennas work well and how and where to mount them. And attenuation affects signals in both directions. So, more important than the output power is the cable, the antenna gain, the antenna mounting position, and the antenna height. Personally I use a db20g radio with a Midland MXTA26 antenna on the center of my steel roof using a magnetic mount from Midland.

If you set the mode to “Tone”, the Tone Squelch frequency setting becomes meaningless. Tone mode means your radio doesn’t (or isn’t supposed to) filter on receive. Tone mode is the same as having no receiver tone. If you want the Tone Squelch setting to be effective you must set mode to TSQL. As far as the random offset frequency, when you transmit are you on 467.725 MHz? If so, the offset doesn’t matter. The best way to ensure your radio works with the repeater is to get on the air and test it. The issues above may be things that the chirp developers would explain better than I can.

You assume disposability. I don’t know very many people who buy Midland or Baofeng radios with the idea they’re disposable. While some people do indeed reduce the choice to only price rather than considering features, user interface, performance, and reputation. Considering features certainly doesn’t make a person “borderline delusional and severely mistaken”; it reflects intelligence and thoroughness.