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Baofeng bother
8 August 2012 | by I like my cute little Baofeng UV-3R+ though I find myself using its slightly bigger brother the UV-5R more often. Unfortunately the UV-3R+ has begun acting up with a fault that is difficult to fathom.
Quite often the UV-3R refuses to switch on. At first I thought that I had accidentally left the radio on and had depleted the battery, because I often do things like that. But the radio comes back to life if you remove and replace the battery or if you drop it into the charger for a few seconds. When I did this today the screen immediately showed a battery voltage of 4.0V which was expected given that it had been charged only a day earlier.
So the radio is failing to turn on even though there is plenty of juice in the battery. Like most HTs it has a “live” power switch and should turn on at the press of a button. The UV-5R on the other hand has a good old-fashioned rotary on/off volume control. Which, I now recall, was the thing that failed on my old Jingtong radio. Ho hum.
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I have the Baofeng UV-3R as well but haven’t had this problem yet. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Mine did the same thing. Need to figure out how or if it can be fixed.
ATENÇÃO, USUÁRIOS E PRINCIPALMENTE, ENGENHEIROS DA BAOFENG, A RESPEITO DE UM SERÍSSIMO PROBLEMA QUE ESTOU TENDO COM 02 HTS. NOVOS : O TX DELES FORAM BLOQUEADOS, ACIDENTALMENTE.
____ JÁ TENTAMOS DE TUDO, SEM RESULTADO.
____ O QUE DEVEMOS FAZER, POR FAVOR. OS RÁDIOS SÃO ABSOLUTAMENTE NOVOS E ESTÃO A DISPOSIÇÃO DA BAOFENG, PARA UMA VERIFICAÇÃO.
____ EXISTE ALGUM PROCEDIMENTO QUE DESATIVA O TX DESTES HTS, POR FAVOR ?
____ OBRIGADO.
____ ESPERO PODER CONTAR COM A COLABORAÇÃO DE AMIGOS E PRINCIPALMENTE, DA PRÓPRIA FÁBRICA, BAOFENG.
____ ANTONIO ALMEIDA – LIMEIRA – SP – BRAZIL : [email protected]
I have a UV-200 and I think it doesn’t have enough output power. Other hams with the same model told me that they could open repeaters 60 Km away, but I can hardly have a 1-2 km away QSO….