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.

  • OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 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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      6 months ago

      Reduced the step size, still unable to transmit any aprs packet.