Unable to transmit VHF (144.390) on uv-5r.

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨amateur_radio@lemmy.radio⁩

Hello y’all, I recently got a cheap uv-5r off of Amazon so I could use APRS in a off the grid location, however I’m encountering a large set of problems with the radio.

First off all, I already tried the 3 finger unlock, doesn’t work. Second off, I can program channels into it with chirp, but the radio will only beep if you press ptt. Only channels 1-30 will transmit, however if you change any of it in chirp it seems to revert back to gmrs.

Thanks for any help in advance.

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Toes@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you have another of the same unit, it’s probably just defective.

There’s also counterfeit issues to worry about if you can compare it to another.

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- TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve done some looking around in other forums, and this seems to be a common issue.
  
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OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
By default, the minimum step size between freqs was too big for me to program my local repeater. Had to lower it in the settings before it was accessible.

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- TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Reduced the step size, still unable to transmit any aprs packet.
  
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ineffable@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I programmed one entirely manually, have a go at manually programming that frequency to another channel. Otherwise you’ve probably got a hardware issue

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