Baofeng on FM broadcast
During the power outage yesterday I got out the Baofeng UV-5RE and noticed that I hadn't charged it probably since the last power outage :( I got the two nearby National Weather Service stations: 162.425 in Sister Bay WI:
https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=WXN69
and 162.5 in Escanaba MI:
https://www.weather.gov/nwr/sites?site=KZZ35
I had Escanaba on the lower VFO (down arrow). Then I tried pressing the orange call button for FM br, no dice. Not a huge problem since I do have a number of FM radios but it's handy to be able to check the radio in hand at the time.
But later after consulting the internet search (including reddit in a search still seems to help) it just says press the orange button and you get FM. I also did a reset which changes the voice prompts to Chinese AND resets the bottom VFO to UHF.
| powerup after reset with lower VFO set to UHF but upper VFO selected (up arrow) |
I finally figured out that the bottom VFO HAS to be set to a UHF frequency to access FM, don't know why. Also, the bottom VFO has to be selected.
| the lower VFO was selected, note the down arrow |
Then a press and release of the call gets to FM:
| 91.9 is Wisconsin Public Radio music |
and a frequency can be entered, remember also to add the two trailing zeroes.
I'll probably forget this by the next time I drag out the Baofeng :(
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm