Baofeng

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Last Updated on Wednesday, April 12 2023 17:04

Some of my fellow ACRC'ers own Baofeng HTs.  Before I bought my F8HP unit, I watched Youtube
installments mentioning how the squelch was really BAD on Baofengs.  After setting up my radio
I found that it, too, exhibited awful squelch characteristics, namely, OPEN squelch, and CLOSED
squelch.  The problem lies in the squelch curve settings.  It is my SWAG (Scientific Wild A@@
Guess) that these factory settings were due to too much electromagnetic interference at the
factory.  Just my thoughts.
 As you may know, audio control is non-linear, rather (somewhat) semi logarithmic in nature.
After re-writing the squelch settings in CHIRP's SERVICE SETTINGS page, I believe this to be
about "as good as it gets" for these critters.  The revised settings are as follows:

VHF - 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 26, 33

UHF - 0. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 19, 22

 This really helped my little radio.  I hope it works as well for yours, too.

73
Russ Emerson - AEØPX

Hams in the park

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Last Updated on Wednesday, May 13 2026 18:54

On the second Saturday of each month, local ham radio operators normally meet at the Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton at the lower parking lot to operate, show off their gear and test ham radio related equipment.   The event starts at noon.     This is an event of interest to ACRC members, but is not an ACRC event.    Hope to see you there!