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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Does the HT have any kind of variable control to set maximum deviation, or is it set at the factory by a fixed resistor? As cheap a price as the Baofeng handhelds go for, I wouldn't be surprised if the deviation was in fact set at a fixed value that could only be changed by physically replacing a resistor on the radio's PC board.
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The deviation can be set using menu item 5...
http://www.miklor.com/uv5r/UV5R-MenuDef.php
From a very informative site:
http://miklor.com/
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
Are the Baofeng lithium-ion battery packs that much different from packs using rechargeable AA cells (such as the pack in my Yaesu FT-207R) that the use of a garden-variety battery pack could actually damage or even destroy a Baofeng radio? After all, a battery pack is a battery pack, is it not?  |
I suspect that the packs from other radios would not fit the BaoFeng HTs... Why bother, the BaoFeng battery packs are a real bargain! I suspect that a Icom or Yaesu pack might cost as much or more than the whole BaoFeng radio.
Not affiliated with BaoFeng or Miklor,
jr