SteveShannon

Are you aware that the CTCSS and DCS tones for the Radioddity radios are programmed using the actual tone/codes i.e. 192.8 Hz & 445; and Midland radio uses a programming code such as CTCSS 31 for 192.8 Hz and DCS 57 for 445 as depicted in the Midland User Manual? When programming the Midland you need to make sure that you are programming in the appropriate CTCSS or DCS mode.

I'm on here mostly to collect feedback on the BF-F8HP Pro, make sure it gets to either the firmware developers, BTECH support, or something I should fix in the CPS.
I don't have to be here. None of this "Brand Ambassador" stuff is in my job description.

I also try to contribute useful information, since I've been a GMRS licensee for quite some time, know what is involved in setting up and operating a racked repeater with a tower antenna, and similar stuff.

But enough about me...

I thought one of the rules for this site was to maintain civil discussion. I interpreted Randy's post here as both non-civil and a personal attack.

Anyway, this has devolved well away from the OP's 'I ordered a radio advertised with a 15" antenna and didn't get it'. Let's get back to technical stuff and friendly rag-chewing.

Thankfully my education as an industrial controls electrician helped me wrap my head around this stuff pretty well. I use to wonder why things like bonding and what not were required when I first started in the career.  I had great instructors who broke the ideas down to bite size pieces that were easy to understand and gave examples that supported the "science" of it all. 

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. 

I have a half-dozen or so that came that way. I don't remember if the BF-f8hps were in a different size box, but they didn't come wth a longer antenna anyway. I'm not sure because I only kept the boxes for radios I haven't used. Anyway, my point is that if it was advertised with a 15" antenna, the seller certainly could have included one by one means or another. Thus, it's most likely that OP's radio was supposed to have one and it got overlooked. The antenna is so cheap to the seller that it probably wouldn't be worth the negative feedback to advertise it falsely.
Again, I'm not trying to show anyone up or be a 🍆. I'm just providing accurate information.

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.

....hold my radio.. I'ma do something real quick....

Went on a road trip and my 6 year old rode with grandma. I gave him one of my radios and we kept the other. Thought it'd be a fun way to try to talk. In the 20-ish hours of driving:
Kid turned off his radio "to save battery" Kid turned off his radio because he wanted to watch Minecraft videos on the iPad Kid dropped the radio and couldn't reach it Kid couldn't hear his radio over his headphones while watching a movie on the iPad Kid said "hi dad, I love you" and a construction worker on the same frequency responded "what?" and my kid went "what?" and the construction worker went "what?" and my kid panicked turned off the radio when he realized he wasn't talking to dad We talked about how big windmills actually are when we passed a blade being transported All in all, a fun experiment. He enjoyed using "dad's radios" and getting to use walkie-talkies somewhere other than the backyard (when it was turned on).
Also, sorry, random Illinois DOT guy.

With hurricane season underway, our HOA just announced that the board and staff will be monitoring 462.550. Now everyone knows someone will be listening. Including FRS means folks will at least be able to hear updates, even if they can't TX very farz with their $10 HTs.
At the next board meeting I'm tempted throw out the idea of a portable, off-grid repeater. This place is too flat with too much vegetation for reliable HT simplex, but a decent antenna on the property high point would make a world of difference.

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.

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. 
 

Pretty wild stuff.  Glad they had working radios with them and people to correspond with, too.  If they were in trouble, it may have saved their lives.  Just being stranded or cutoff from leaving is enough to make someone panic.  Sometimes, just having a voice on the other end and some mildly useful information can really make the difference on the psychological impact of a situation.  

My RV Friends are just now getting out of Bear Creek Texas, untouched by the floods because they were camped high enough.. They say the devastation is unmanageable and the amount of rain they got in short period was beyond belief..  They've been staying in touch with the world via their GMRS  radios, which they say were very busy by both rescue groups and people in general.  There cell service has been spotty and just now coming back, they even had a hard time senidng text, which i thought worked off satellites now..   I would have been on the trip with them but had last minute issues with my VGT Exhaust break and still in the shop for a $4,500 repair..    (3weeks latter)...     Thank god they are all safe..  

I was very impressed with the Midland Ghost antenna. If I didn't need an antenna for multiple bands, I'd still be using it. Where I do most of my driving, distance is limited mostly by terrain, not by the antenna, so I can't say for sure whether you'd give up some farz with it, but it's definitely worth a look. 
The Comet 2x4 is a remarkably good antenna. If I didn't want to use the 1.25 meter band, it's the only antenna I'd use. Mounted on the roof of my car with a good ground plane, it has good SWRs (~1.2-1.4:1) and good performance on GMRS, 70cm, and 2m. It also has an excellent SWR on MURS, although I haven't tried its performance on that band. Surprisingly, it has a very good SWR on 1.25m as well, but I haven't tested its performance on that band. It's not claimed to be tuned for that band, and I'd be amazed if it performed well, but I'll probably try it someday. 

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.

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. 

+1 on the speaker mic. The sound on them is legible but tinny and the PTT button is waaaaaaay too sensitive. 

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.

Wow! looks a lot better than my collection of radios stuff into plastic food storage boxes on a couple of roll-around shelve units.

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.

I was going to let this slide. But hey, it's Tuesday and I'm under my quota of arguments for the week so far...😝

1) It's Terri with an "i", short for Teresa. Which you'd know if you'd ever used any of my CPS programs.

2) Standard box size. Let's see. Here's a picture of 16 different Baofeng models in their boxes. I'm sorry I could only stack 4 high by 4 wide before I ran out of space. Front and top views. These are all single radios (which is what started this post). Obviously a box for a pair of radios, or more, would be larger.

3) "Nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens)" Yup. Riggghhhhttttt. I have 34 different models, all unboxed, right now in my line of sight, not to mention the ones in the boxes in the pictures. Nor all of the ones I've given away. Here's a screen capture from a Baofeng factory promotional video where it shows just a small part of their showroom before the image pans around and looks down rows and rows of different models on display.

4) I could probably stuff a small rattlesnake into a standard size Baofeng box. Neither it, a 15" antenna, or the customer would be happy when the box was opened.

You come along, all high and mighty with your proclamations here because you're a Youtube superstar with (as of just now) 266K subscribers and almost nobody is willing to stand up and call "BS" to your face. Well, surprise! Note that I only wrote this reply because you tried just about everything you could to provoke a response from me. Normally I'm easygoing and try to be helpful when answering questions here, without sarcasm or denigrating the other person.

Now, let's all return to our respective corners and try to behave civilly, OK?

Which to a normal person, using normal ears, appears to be "listening to two channels at the same time"... Next you going to explain to us how "movies don't really move"?   
Geezusphuckingkrist "some people" are insufferable..

Mine can, but it’s an older model.