2m Skip?

[W2NAP]

baofengs have shit receivers in them. if I am on 440 with mine and a APD officer keys up somewhat close to me I can hear them (they use a 453 rpt out/458 in) if i get close to the apd tower I can hear it all.

so hearing a fd call from a station 2 miles away on vhf with a baocrap isnt "skip" its intermod due to crappy radio.

2m "skip" would be hearing a repeater on 147.22 from a couple hundred miles away.

[KC2UGV]

baofengs have shit receivers in them. if I am on 440 with mine and a APD officer keys up somewhat close to me I can hear them (they use a 453 rpt out/458 in) if i get close to the apd tower I can hear it all.

so hearing a fd call from a station 2 miles away on vhf with a baocrap isnt "skip" its intermod due to crappy radio.

2m "skip" would be hearing a repeater on 147.22 from a couple hundred miles away.

Interesting... I must have lucked out with the Baofeng I received then. Standing at a transmitter site, less than 20 ft from an antenna array, nary a bit of intermod.

I have an alternative theory: Was your B VFO on the actual fire frequency, while you were scanning, with dual-watch enabled, but VFO-A locked in for xmit? Which would make it so the scanning stops when something comes in on VFO B, while keeping your xmit VFO on A.

[W2NAP]

Interesting... I must have lucked out with the Baofeng I received then. Standing at a transmitter site, less than 20 ft from an antenna array, nary a bit of intermod.
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im sure if you dig a bit, you will find problems.

Mine has great tx audio, another guy in town has one has totally shit tx audio.
rx on these things are as wide open as a barn door.
as for intermod what was the tx site you were standing next to? was you on the same band as it was?
like I said APD here uses 453/458Mhz if one of the cops or I am very close to the tower and I am on 440 Ill hear them. If I am on 2m and get close to another 2m repeater site Ill hear the other 2m repeater

[KC2UGV]

im sure if you dig a bit, you will find problems.

Mine has great tx audio, another guy in town has one has totally shit tx audio.
rx on these things are as wide open as a barn door.
as for intermod what was the tx site you were standing next to? was you on the same band as it was?
like I said APD here uses 453/458Mhz if one of the cops or I am very close to the tower and I am on 440 Ill hear them. If I am on 2m and get close to another 2m repeater site Ill hear the other 2m repeater

I was standing on top of Buffalo's city hall, which is a transmitter site for 3 of the 5 BPD repeater systems (On the UHF band), Buffalo Fire (UHF), and I do believe Buffalo DPW (VHF).

[WX7P]

im sure if you dig a bit, you will find problems.

Mine has great tx audio, another guy in town has one has totally shit tx audio.
rx on these things are as wide open as a barn door.
as for intermod what was the tx site you were standing next to? was you on the same band as it was?
like I said APD here uses 453/458Mhz if one of the cops or I am very close to the tower and I am on 440 Ill hear them. If I am on 2m and get close to another 2m repeater site Ill hear the other 2m repeater

Do you have it set on wide or narrow FM?

[WX7P]

Interesting... I must have lucked out with the Baofeng I received then. Standing at a transmitter site, less than 20 ft from an antenna array, nary a bit of intermod.

I have an alternative theory: Was your B VFO on the actual fire frequency, while you were scanning, with dual-watch enabled, but VFO-A locked in for xmit? Which would make it so the scanning stops when something comes in on VFO B, while keeping your xmit VFO on A.

I have seven Baofengs and intermod has been an issue on only one of them, the UV-5RA. The rest have been clean.

Yeah, I know. Seven HTs is stupid. I hear that every day at home...

[K9CCH]

I have seven Baofengs and intermod has been an issue on only one of them, the UV-5RA. The rest have been clean.

Yeah, I know. Seven HTs is stupid. I hear that every day at home...

thats funny... I'm using UV-5RA's...

[K7SGJ]

I have to agree on the intermod theory.

[NQ6U]

I have to agree on the intermod theory.

After actually reading your post (like I should have before answering), I would concur with this.

[K9CCH]

No, I have dual watch disabled. But B was on 443.825, another local radio club repeater.