Basic Radio Programing
Location: Sweetwater County Justice Center – Training Room
When: June 11, 2025 – 6:30 P.M.
We will be hosting a class to the general public about programing radios. This will be a fairly simple overview on the basics of what to understand when it comes to radio’s and getting different frequencies to stay in the radio as a memory channel for quick recall. While there are a huge variety of radios out on the market today, this course will be focused on HT radios, specifically the Baofeng UV-5R radio. The concepts within this course can be adapted to apply to other radios, however each radio has it’s own quirks and can be slightly different. The reasoning on why we are running with the UV-5R, is that this radio is fairly inexpensive, and easy to come by for getting started into Ham Radio.
If you are interested, you might looking at purchasing one, you can be a couple of them for around $30 on Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/
We will have their programing cable available for use, however you might entertain the idea of purchasing one yourself as well. https://www.amazon.com/
You are welcome to bring any radio you wish, however there might be somethings that we are unable to know about your radio without reading the manual. In trying to keep the flow moving we might have skip trying to program your radio, however keep notes as other concepts might still be applicable to your deployment.
