Transmission1

Anyone point me to a tried and tested interface for the UV5R or 888? Tried a couple and nothing. Starting to think the radios are dead. Thanks

What frequencies are you trying to pick up?

I've got a UV-5R and pick up repeaters quiet a distance from my house - I'm in west Drayton and get Amersham and Harrow with no issues.

I haven't tried TX as I did once but into the Harrow repeater - they couldn't hear me clearly and that's running 5w through the standard antenna.

M6UCW wrote:What frequencies are you trying to pick up?

I've got a UV-5R and pick up repeaters quiet a distance from my house - I'm in west Drayton and get Amersham and Harrow with no issues.

I haven't tried TX as I did once but into the Harrow repeater - they couldn't hear me clearly and that's running 5w through the standard antenna.

The radio is fine, as per the title looking for a reliable FRN Interface to go with the Baofeng.

hi,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181410161338 - this is the one.
connectors done by builder for your radio. it took me ~1hr for
finetuning. tried an 888s with eliminator, but it went too hot
and switched off. now i have a B6 running (with eliminator)
and all works well since 2 month.


(box from IKEA)

Thanks for that.. I'll keep that in the back of my mind, was really after a homebrew option..

Cheers

The M0AQC interface is great, I used one with a BF888s and battery eliminator however the eliminator melted after a long TX once. So now I'm using the radio strapped into the desk charger and it's fine, it gets warm during long TX but nothing to worry about.

So the desk chager is fine for 888s on gatway