Baofeng’s desense when using external antenna is not true for everyone.

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• What Aerial Antenna did you used from this video?

  I am also having a hard time using my Cignus and Baofeng with my Dualband mobile antenna.

  • Hi Dennis, on the testing video it's on Ringo Ranger, works better in directional antenna, but yes the radio is susceptible to noise if you're in the city. On provincial landscape TX/RX works flawlessly even better than YAESU 2900 on my testing :).

• Sir, is there a dual band for Ringo Ranger?

  • Cushcraft has dual band Ringo Vertical antennas AR270 for 2m/70cm

• I have a similar issue with my Baofengs, the sensetivity seems to be off, even with the adjusted squelch done by CHIRP, should I just use a ringo antenna as the thread says here ?

  • NO, the issue with the Baofeng's is the design of the front end not much filtering, so it's prone to desense (Desense is the degradation in sensitivity due to noise sources,in RF rich environment) i.e city which has many cell sites, mobile phones, wifi etc. all those are RF sources, which overload the Baofeng's receiver thereby affecting the sensitivity. If you would take the same radio in the province, then the radio would perform well even if you are using just any kind of antenna be it omni or directional. The video, I have on youtube is a special case - because it works well on any antenna, but most of the complaints from Baofeng's users is the desense which I found to be true on my other Baofeng radios. It's is better for you to use directional antenna if you are in the city (it will improve the reception, but not much), if you're in the province any antenna will work just fine.

  • My unit is a special case of a baofeng uv5r that is performing well on external antenna, the other units that I have come across have desense issues as well so it's better for you to use a directional antenna rather than a ringo ranger.

• Use band pass filter sample 140-150Mhz, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBNcTn9BEy0