I just bought a pair of BaoFeng 888s radios and they don't work out of the box. I know they are on the illegal freqs, but I expected them to work.
I got the cable, reprogrammed them to the recommended freqs (does any one has a good *.dat file for USA?) and they still don't work with each other.
What could I possibly do wrong? I select the same channel (1-1 or 2-2) and press button to talk, but I don't hear anything coming from the other radio.
The speaker is working, because I can hear it saying "power on".
UPD: here are the frequencies I'm trying to use by following the Amazon review comment: Out/Simplex Repeater input (use only first column if you don't have a repeater)
- 462.550 ---- 467.550
- 462.575 ---- 467.575
- 462.600 ---- 467.600
- 462.625 ---- 467.625
- 462.650 ---- 467.650
- 462.675* --- 467.675*
- 462.700 ---- 467.700
- 462.725 ---- 467.725