As a newbie #hamradio explorer, decided to get something better than Baofeng (known as "standard").
Motivation:
- Explore new areas such as #aprs
- Better channel management
- Improved audio
- And most important - simply wanted to see how the "proper", "better" and full-featured radio compares to a Baofeng.
Since I usually do not know what I'm doing, didn't want to overspend. Ended up purchasing #anytone AT-D878UV II Plus V2 which arrived earlier this week!
Things I've learned during the first day with #anytone AT-D878UV II Plus V2:
1. Radio arrives with pre-configured region and limited frequency ranges. For example, "Amateur Europe" region allows listening PMR466 feequencies but prevents TX. Regions can be changed easily 🤫
2. Noticed some menu items were missing after fiddling with regions. Later I've found there are Professional and Amateur modes of the radio. Amateur has more options ;-) Initially I thought it is vice versa.
For some reason #baofeng can not break squelch of my #anytone on PMR466 frequencies. Only possible ways I've found are:
1. Completely turn off SQL level on AnyTone (not an option).
2. Configure PMR channels on AnyTone to use wide bandwith. Not the best option as well.
Baofeng bandwith is set to narrow but probably that setting does not do much.
@vaidas Apparently not :-)
But it should be more or less the same.
Another thing I'd like to experiment with - tuning squelch level to make it more sensitive. See https://anytonetechzone.byethost7.com/878techmods.htm?i=2#FullTestMode
pawka
vaidas