Baofeng Basics
Learn how to use your handheld Baofeng UV-5R, starting from the beginning, including:
- Programming Your Baofeng UV-5R
- Making Your First Call
- Talking on Repeaters
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Introducing the Baofeng Basics Online Course
For the last 3 years, we’ve been helping thousands of Americans study for their ham radio license exam. However, after becoming licensed ham radio operators, many of our students struggled to take the next step and finally get on the air. Because of this demand, we decided to take our system that has been so effective in prepping for the ham radio exam, and actually show how to use your ham radio.
It's designed so you can learn to use your Baofeng quickly.
We’re going to start from the very beginning, and teach you all the fundamentals of operating your Baofeng UV-5R. To make this course simple and easy-to-use, we focus specifically on the Baofeng UV-5R. Our videos are short and easy to understand.
Course lessons:
- Introduction
- Setting up your radio
- About your BaoFeng UV-5R
- Reset the factory default
- What are repeaters?
- Finding repeaters in your area
- Programming your Baofeng to talk to a repeater
- Making your first call on ham radio
- Simplex operation
Course features
Learn how to connect to repeaters and repeater systems where you can talk in chat groups, practice emergency communications, meet other hams, and more!
Our course shows you how to make your first call step-by-step, so you can learn quickly and avoid rookie mistakes.
We took the most important concepts and boiled them down into lessons you can reference and use easily.
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Materials You Need for The Course:
To truly get the most out of this class, you need two things:
1) Your FCC Technician License (learn more here)
2) A Baofeng UV-5R or any supported radios.
Disclaimer: Ham Radio Prep and American Radio Club Inc. are in no way associated with Baofeng, Baofeng Tech or any similar radio manufacturers or distributors. We are an independent organization that makes online courses and educational materials for those who want to learn how to use Baofeng radios and we enjoy these radios ourselves.
Supported Radios:
We have gone through an exhaustive list of possible similar radios and evaluated whether or not we think they will work with this course. We look at certain features to see whether they might be very similar to the popular UV-5R model.
We do know that there are radios out there with varying firmware versions (some even requested by private label sellers) as well as cosmetic changes, but on the whole they most likely will work with our course. For instance, menu numbers used for navigating programming might be slightly off, but you still should be able to scroll through those menu items to find the congruent and correct menu number for the function you need to carry out the same task.
Baofeng/Pofung:
B-580T
BF-E500S
BF-F8
BF-F8+
BF-F8+III
BF-F9
BF-F9V2+
BF-R3
BF-UVB2 Plus
FF-12P
GT-3
GT3 MK2
GT-3 Mark II
GT-3TP Mark III
GT-3WP
GT-5
UV-10R
UV-10R V2
UV-5R
UV-5R7W
UV-5R MK4
UV-5R MK5
UV-5R V2+
UV-5R+
UV-5R++
UV-5R+Plus
UV-5R+Pro
UV-5R2
UV-5RA
UV-5RA+
UV-5RAX+
UV-5RAX (2M/1.25M)
UV-5RB
UV-5RC
UV-5RCX+
UV-5RCX (2M/1.25M)
UV-5RD
UV-5RE
UV-5RE Plus
UV-5R EX (Radioddity)
UV-5RG
UV-5RHP
UV-5R HTQ
UV-5RIII (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-5RK
UV-5RM
UV-5RM HP
UV-5RQ
UV-5RS
UV-5RT
UV-5RTP
UV-5RU
UV-5RWP
UV-5RX3 (2M/1.25M/70cm) (Radioddity)
UV-5S
UV-5X
UV-5XP
UV-6R
UV-8X (2M/1.25M)
UV-9S (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-920
UV-B2+
UV-B3+
UV-S9T
BTECH/Baofeng Tech:
BF-F8HP
UV-5X3 (2M/1.25M/70cm)
Foscam Digital Technologies:
997-S
Intek:
KT-980HP
MTC (Main Trading Co.):
UV-5R-3
Radioddity:
GA-5S
UV-5R EX
UV-5RX3 (2M/1.25M/70cm) (Baofeng model)
Rugged Radios:
RH5R
RH5R-V2
Tonfa:
UV-985
Zastone:
ZT-V8
ZT-V8A
ZT-V8A+
Gignus:
UV-85
Hesenate:
HT-5RX3 (2M/1.25M/70cm)
Mirkit:
UV-5R MK3
UV-5R MK3X (2M/1.25M/70cm)
UV-5R MK4
UV-5R MK5
R&L Electronics:
UV-5R 3 band (2M/1.25M/70cm)
Retevis:
RT-5 (two power levels)
RT-5R
RT-5RV
Tenway:
UV-5R Pro
Vero Global Communications:
UV-E5
UV-E5 MK2
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