I guess I do DFing differently than most people? I don't use the signal strength meter at all. I open up the squelch and listen to the incoming signal. You can hear a weak signal, even using FM, long before the squelch will open or the signal will show up on the S-Meter. I move the beam antenna around until I find the direction where the signal is the least noisy. When the signal is stronger I switch in attenuation to reduce the signal strength so the signal becomes noisy again.
Terry On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:43 PM, W7AMI <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with the Baofeng UV3R that I have is ease of use, or rather > lack of. If you want to set it up with a Mobilinkd modem it's good. But > for general use it cumbersome. To DF you will want to turn off the > squelch. To do that you have to hit the Menu button on the front panel > and use the selector knob on the top of the radio to scroll through the > functions to the squelch function. Then hit the U/V button to select the > squelch feature and then rotate the selector knob on top until the squelch > is set to zero. It works. It takes longer to read than to actually do it > but it isn't convenient. Even the volume control is primitive. Hit the > Vol button and rotate the selector knob to turn the volume up or down. > The entire volume range is only 9 steps. I find I only use the first two > steps. The big feature is that is is cheap. I mostly use mine to > monitor the launch channel on the FRS service while hunting rockets away > from the launch area. The launches are almost cooler 1/2 mile away from > the pad! That's my experience your mileage may vary. > > Terry >
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