I'll try that with my wife's and turn the battery saver off, I'm putting
buying a couple more as emergency backups on hold, I have enough that have
never let me down that I'll have to be sold yet on those again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: good two meter handheld i could use
> like i said, it's likely a combination of both, but definitely the battery
> saver is the culprit here because it does put the radio to sleep and
> likely
> causes this problem to occur.
> These baofengs and so on work really well for anything, but you do have to
> be aware of how different settings in the radio can behave...IE, they're
> not
> useless for public events, but if you turn on or leave on a particular
> setting like battery save, then yes, they won't behave as you expect other
> radios without that feature to behave.
> From what I've seen, most ham HT's use a totally different method of
> battery
> save where it simply shuts the receiver off for 1 third, or 2 thirds of
> the
> time and only for a second or so...the baofeng design is obviously
> different
> where in it fails to receive properly when the feature is enabled.
> Doesn't make it a bad radio, just something the programmer has to be aware
> of.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 11:57 AM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: good two meter handheld i could use
>
>> When My wife had the problem, there was no receive CTCSS on, I don't know
>> about the rest of them but most of us were working the same events and
>> most
>> art simplex with no tone. I'll shut the battery saver off in my wife's
>> but
>> I
>> hope it holds. I'm not going to the trouble of reprogramming that thing.
>> I've had a lot of radios over the years and never seen that problem with
>> any
>> other ones commercial or ham. I run CTCSS as well any time I possibly can
>> and have never seen that .
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 12:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: good two meter handheld i could use
>>
>>
>>> ok, it's baofeng guys lol.
>>> And as for the sleep thing, simply turn off the battery save function
>>> and
>>> it'll stop...don't forget though, you have to turn that function off
>>> before
>>> the channel programming process...also don't use receive ctcss and it'll
>>> insure that you hear the beginning of each received transmition.
>>> I think maybe some forget to disable the battery saver function and
>>> program
>>> the radio, then they turn that function off after the fact...however,
>>> each
>>> time you turn the radio back on the function will be back again.
>>> Then again, maybe this is a problem with the newest radios? I have a
>>> uv3r,
>>> uv5r and the new gt3 baofeng radios and do not experience this sleep
>>> mode
>>> or
>>> problem with receiving after it has been quiet for a while...I turn off
>>> the
>>> battery saver in the menus and I don't use receive ctcss.
>>> I use an Icom commercial handheld for work and it does have the battery
>>> saver function turned on and I experience this exact thing with the
>>> radio
>>> not waking up very quickly when it starts to receive something.
>>> I have the gt3 turned on all day monitoring the repeater and I hear
>>> everything that comes in including the half hour timers without a
>>> problem
>>> so
>>> I can only think that those who are having the issue with not receiving
>>> after a while have both the battery saver on, and the receive ctcss
>>> turned
>>> on.
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 5:12 AM
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: good two meter handheld i could use
>>>
>>>> Baofent? not a horrible radio but no good for public service I'm
>>>> finding.
>>>> It
>>>> tends to go to this sleep mode or something and you miss calls if the
>>>> frequency's been quiet for a while. The receive light comes on but you
>>>> won't
>>>> hear anything unless you push a button. I do a lot of parades, walks,
>>>> road
>>>> races, search dog events with the scouts and what not and almost all of
>>>> us
>>>> have found that to be a problem with those and have gone back to the
>>>> more
>>>> expensive ham radios and my preference personally the commercial
>>>> radios.
>>>> I'll gladly buy older radios no one wants though, since most public
>>>> service
>>>> events are on simplex, I just got an IC-2AT at a ham fest, from a
>>>> friend
>>>> so
>>>> I know the lightly used history of it so I'll use that one a bit I'm
>>>> sure.
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Eric Oyen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 12:47 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: good two meter handheld i could use
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I have one brand for you to consider:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bao-peng.
>>>>>
>>>>> Its under $50, its dual band and it can be programmed with chirp
>>>>> (still
>>>>> =
>>>>> trying to get the dev to make that more useful to blind hams).
>>>>>
>>>>> -eric
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 8, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Scott V wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello all.
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> If I wanted to find a good two meter handheld, that was either
>>>>>> speech=20=
>>>>>
>>>>>> enabled or easy to use under 50 bucks on amazon, what key word would
>>>>>> I=20=
>>>>>
>>>>>> search for?
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> later
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Scott
>>>>>> 73
>>>>>> kb0clz
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----=20
>>>>>> From: Buddy Brannan
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 7:33 AM
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Dayton thoughts
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> What do you use for credit card/cash register?
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> Square? Paypal? Some other thingy?
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>> On May 7, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Gerry Leary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>=20
>>>>>>> Oh yes I will also have my iPad mini with a complete talking cash
>>>>>>> =3D
>>>>>> register a=3D3D
>>>>>>> nd credit card system.
>>>>>>> =3D20
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone this time=3D3D20
>>>>>>> =3D20
>>>>>>>> On May 6, 2014, at 8:55 PM, Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> =3D3D20
>>>>>>>> Coffee chocolate? Excellent!!!
>>>>>>>> I'll save a beer for you and a bratt if I can. Maybe I should
>>>>>>>> bring
>>>>>>>> =
>>>>> =3D
>>>>>> a=3D3D20
>>>>>>>> bottle of Secret Stadium Sauce.=20
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