Baofeng UV-5R
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Preface
Lennart Lidberg
November 10th, 2012.
Please excuse the crudity of this model. I didn't have time to build it
to scale or paint it.
—Dr. Emmet Brown
This manual started out as a bit of a joke between friends, saying that "Someone should
write a better manual!". As it turns out, that someone turned out to be I.
Never having written any real documentation before (aside from short how-to documents
online), I turned to the masters of documentation themselves for inspiration; O'Reilly
Media and the Safari books. After reading around on their website I stumbled upon their
design guideline documents, and in turn stumbled onto DocBook [http://docbook.org/]
- an entire format designed for writing documentation - perfect.
As a result this manual is a bit rough around the edges. A learning exercise using essen-
tially defaults from the DocBookXSL stylesheet collection. However, despite not having
the polish of a professional publication, the content should be the best it can be.
Many thanks to all of those who donated to make this possible. Also big thanks to
O'Reilly Media for their inspiration and wonderful documentation.
Regarding CHIRP and the upcoming revised edition
Originally I intended to include a whole section in the programming chapter dedicated
to the free and open source programming tool CHRIP [http://chirp.danplanet.com/], but
unfortunately I couldn't for the life of me get it playing with my hardware, despite trying
three entirely different setups.
CHIRP will therefore have to wait for the revised edition of the book, which in turn
will have to wait for me to get CHIRP working. Other than the addition of CHIRP and
inclusion of any errata from this edition, the revised edition will include the Glossary
and Index sections that were cut due to time concerns (unfortunately I didn't have the
foresight to index things as I was writing them as I was still learning about how to use
DocBook). There is a high probability that I will further refine the book's layout and
design as well.
Summary of Contents for UV-5R Series
Page 1: ...Baofeng UV 5R The Chinese Radio Documentation Project http radiodoc github com Lennart Lidberg...
Page 6: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project vi Baofeng UV 5R...
Page 8: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project viii Preface...
Page 10: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 2 Getting started...
Page 24: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 16 Basic Use...
Page 26: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 18 Advanced topics...
Page 34: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 26 DTMF...
Page 38: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 30 Selective calling...
Page 46: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 38 Programming...
Page 48: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 40 How to and setup guides...
Page 56: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 48 Troubleshooting...
Page 68: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 60 Menu definitions...
Page 74: ...The Chinese Radio Documentation Project 66 Colophon...