This can be used to prevent excessively long transmissions and prevent interruptions to other users in the event of a stuck PTT button. This setting provides a ‘safety switch’ to limit your transmission time to the specified value (in seconds). I have tried this both off and on, my personal preference is ‘ON’. This setting allows for the audible confirmation of key presses on the front panel. Note: this setting is not good for constant broadcasts, such as NOAA weather radio as that stream will always ‘be active’. When one goes quiet, the other will kick on if there is activity, otherwise both will be quiet until there is activity (pending squelch is enabled). This is a neat setting if you monitor two frequencies at the same time. The frequency with the most recent activity will be the focus and played. This setting allows you to monitor two bands at the same time. This will obviously lower battery life a slight amount. I like lights, so I have mine set to ’10’, although if it could go higher I’d choose the max. This setting controls how long the backlight stays lit after no actions are taken on the unit. I have this setting on ‘WIDE’ but it may vary for your area. Use wide bandwidth (25kHz) or narrow bandwidth (12.5kHz). OFF disables the feature, 10 is most sensitive. This setting will be unique to your voice and operating environment. The various values adjust the sensitivity. When this is enabled, voice activation can open your mic (preventing the need to depress the PTT button. If have found that a setting of ‘2’ works well overall. Higher save values will use less battery power, but comes at the cost of possibly missing the first few characters of any received communications. Selects the ratio of sleep cycles to awake cycles (1:1, 2:1, 3:1. I found that (M) works well for me on most repeaters, but if using simplex (H) was better. You are supposed to use the lowest amount of transmission power possible for your communication, so experiment with what works best for you. These settings (on my specific unit) refer to the RF output power when transmitting. This allows you to set the TRANSMIT power of your unit. It doesn’t cut too much out and allows slightly weaker signals to still make it in.Ģ.5K, 5.0K, 6.25K, 10.0K, 12.5K, 20.0K, 25.0K, 50.0KĪLLOWS SELECTION OF THE FREQUENCY STEPS WHEN SCANNING OR USING THE UP/DOWN ARROWS. Setting 0 means no squelch (fully open, static and all). Silences the receiver when there is no signal. After many days of digging, testing and trying, here are the settings I found to work well for me.
I struggled a little bit with the various settings on this unit, trying to find that ‘perfect setup’. I recently got into ham radio and my starter unit is a Baofeng BF-F8HP.
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