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arrows to slowly tune your radio to the proper frequency, you can quickly access the frequency
by typing it in with the UV-5R keypad.
First, you must first be in Frequency Mode.
You can access this mode by hitting the
“VFO/MR” button. There are two different aspects of changing frequency on a UV-5R to
remember: you can change the frequency that you’re listening to, and you can also change the
frequency that you’re transmitting on.
Second, press the “A/B” button to select whether you want to change the frequency you are
listening to (“A” on the top screen) or the frequency that you are transmitting from (“B” on
the bottom screen).
(If you want to program a frequency in VHF and you’re currently in UHF –
or vice versa – then you’ll need to hit the “BAND” key after this prior step.)
Third, you need to enter the first three digits of the frequency that you want to listen to.
This will fill in the numbers on the left side of the decimal. To enter the four digits on the right
side of the decimal, you need to round up to the nearest whole number. There are only three
spaces for you to enter those last four numbers, so that’s what you have to do. For example, if
you want to listen to 145.6875 you need to
enter 145.688. The screen will now show
the frequency that you wanted to listen to.
Keep in mind that the frequency listed at
the top of the screen is the frequency that
you are
listening
to. The frequency at the
bottom of the screen is the frequency that
you are
transmitting
on. To change back
and forth between the top and bottom of
the screen so that you can set each to the
desired frequency you must hit the “A/B”
button.
How to Switch
Between VHF and
UHF
Your UV-5R radio is referred to as a dual-
band transceiver. This means that it has
access to two different bands – a term used
for a grouping of radio frequencies. Let’s
say that you have a friend that wants to
