[arm-allstar] Very low audio.

Tue Apr 2 00:02:46 EDT 2019

The Baofengs are actually very good radios to use for short haul. They work
well and have good audio when used as a node. The PL works fine so I am not
sure what your issue was with that. You need to program them with chirp.
Don't fool around with front panel programming it will drive you nuts!

*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:00 AM "Fred C. via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

>
> Brian,
>
> I hope this trick will work for you. I think you are right to aim at a
> better radio than the baofeng. These radios are ok when you want to do
> casual work, but they are a little to cheap for something more serious. For
> example I programmed the squelch tone on my baofeng to 136.5Hz but I can
> open it by sending down to 127.3Hz or up to 146.2Hz. I might get an old
> Motorola from eBay soon.
>
>
> Good luck, Brian on your node.
>
> -fred-
>
>
>
>
> > On Apr 1, 2019, at 8:09 PM, B Harvey <bharveytwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> >    Well, I can't really say I'm GLAD your having similar problems but
> ours seem to have a lot in common. With regard to the DTMF tones, I could
> never connect or get my node to respond to commands, When I viewed the
> results of my DTMF commands in CLI, there were several tones (Those
> associated with 3, 6 and 9) that wouldn't get decoded. Raising the audio
> level helped with the decode but my node still wouldn't respond to the
> commands. That's when I found that my deviation was still too low.
> Estimating the scale on the live deviation menu, I suspect I was getting
> about 500hz before changing the levels and about 2500khz afterword. So, I
> think I'm still too low. Too for for this evening but I think I'll give
> Doug's recommendation and try and re-route my audio to pin 9. Hopefully
> It'll work for me too.
> >
> >
> > Brian / KK6DOQ
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 4:31 PM Fred C. <w6bsd at bsdworld.org <mailto:
> w6bsd at bsdworld.org>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > I am not playing an April’s fool joke unfortunately. This would mean
> that my problem will be gone my itself tomorrow.
> >
> > You are describing the exact same problem I have. I made sure the radio
> is not running in narrow mode. I event checked again because I am at a
> point where I doubt everything now. I have tried to remove the resistor.
> The only thing I am getting a a crappier audio but not louder. I am sure
> what is on hamvoip is working, but like you said, there is a subtile
> difference between our radio and theirs or I missed something so obvious
> that I can’t see it.
> >
> > Oh one interesting info, please tell me if you have the same behavior.
> All the DTMF codes are working fine for me. I can connect disconnect, get a
> status, etc, etc.
> >
> > -fred-
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Apr 1, 2019, at 4:05 PM, B Harvey <bharveytwo at gmail.com <mailto:
> bharveytwo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Fred,
> >>
> >>    I just ran through this very setup and suffered the same problem.
> Although many suggestions were given, nothing worked. It was suggested,
> that perhaps the radio will not function in wide band mode and I'm inclined
> to believe that is the case. I can assume that it worked for the person who
> developed the "How To" on the Hamvoip website but perhaps they had a
> different revision of the UV 82 radio. I even went so far as to remove the
> 4.7Kohm resistor in line with the receive line of the URI but it didn't
> help. I could never even reach the 3khz mark on the deviation test menu
> page. I'm now in the process of building a radioless node just to test my
> URI since I have the parts on hand. If that works, I'll go a different
> route with a radio. In all likelihood I'll use an Alinco DR 435 as this one
> is know to work well and not suffer long term ill effects. You posting with
> this problem almost makes me think I'm getting played the "April Fool"
> >>
> >>
> >> Brian / KK6DOQ
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM "Fred C. via ARM-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org <mailto:arm-allstar at hamvoip.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I am new to AllStar and new to that mailing list and I might ask a
> question that has been answered server time. I haven’t found the answer to
> my problem tho.
> >>
> >> I have installed hamvoip, on a Raspberry Pi 3B+, I am using the URI
> made by DMK Engineering and a Baofeng UV-82, with the mods found on the
> hamvoip website. Everything seems to be working ok besides my low, very low
> audio. People I am talking with can barely hear me. On the receive
> everything is fine.
> >>
> >> I have tried all the obvious things I could find on the internet, but
> nothing seems to be working. I have played with simple_usb_tune. The RX
> Boost Mode is on (1), my Rx Voice Level is set to 999. I have checked the
> alsamixer and the microphone input is all the way up. I have even try to
> remove the 4.7kΩ resistor on the DB25 connector and don’t get any
> improvements.
> >>
> >> I was wondering if someone had encountered this problem before or if
> something had an idea that I haven’t explored yet.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >>
> >> -fred-
> >>
> >> --
> >> Fred C. (070 #2569)
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