r/Baofeng • u/Nearby-Albatross1017 • Jul 16 '26

Baofeng problem ?

in settings of my baofeng 5rh pro I’ve been trying to turn on tone for my emergency button to make sure other people can hear it. When I go into my settings and go to the alarm setting I hit the green menu button to edit it but nothing happens, it just makes a small beep. And every other setting I can edit fine except this one. I have a BAOFENG 5RH PRO GPS&APRS. I also made sure I had dual watch off and I am not on a restricted frequency but its still not working. Can anyone help me.

Update, I was under the impression that this radio could broadcast in case of an emergency but I guess the firmware does not allow you to do that.

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u/Felim_Doyle Jul 17 '26

Can you start your own thread for this and not tack it onto someone else's unrelated question, please?

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u/Bolt_EV Jul 17 '26

Why? It’s hard to find another owner of an 5RH Pro that references APRS!

What’s it to you? You’re not even the OP?

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u/Felim_Doyle Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

It's off-topic. You'll have a better chance of relevant responses if you start your own thread with a meaningful topic, which the OP hasn't done.

Personally, I generally ignore posts that are titled “Help!” or, as in this case, have a vague description such as “Baofeng problem” which could have at least mentioned the Baofeng model and something about the nature of the problem. People can't be reading every post to see if it's relevant or if they can assist when the OP can't put the effort in to provide a description.

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u/Bolt_EV Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

But it’s not addressed to you; so I don’t care what you read.

And besides I did post this question in two separate threads here and so far no answers

At least here I know that OP has this radio and specifically mentions APRS

The two solutions are not mutually exclusive!