My Baofeng gone deaf

Morning guys,can any body help, I have been happily listening to my little Baofeng, am waiting for my exam in May,
But it has gone deaf !
Picks up CW ,picks up record on local repeater” This is ect”
But no actual voice,
Tested with my small other PMR and received my voice message .
Even bought a Siro 2070h and magmount to try on the car,
To get better reception,
Deleted all my Channels,
Have re input local repeaters.
The strange thing is it stops on channels ,the light comes on,
It waits as if hearing something, but again no voice.
If any bodies can help this newbie,
I would be great full.

Hello there, first of mate I've never heard CW(morse) on a Baofeng and I doubt you will ,what your hearing which sounds like Morse (CW)is when a repeater is opened up it the code being sent out to say your connected, as for not hearing anything there is few frequencies that are open all the time for some reason so when you scan even if nobody is talking it will stop on that frequency, I live in North London and I pick up the buses and if I scan its stops on there frequency even if there not talking, I also pick up the BBC outside broadcast frequency, that has a recording saying what it is ,I will say it has been quiet on my Baofeng too apart from local Amateur club frequency networks now and then , and my local repeater but even that's not been busy ,so it might be just like my area its quiet at the moment, if it works on PMR as you said it must be OK .
By the way I'm doing my exam in May too so good luck.

Thanks NUBSTER,
I will keep on listening.
My test is on the 22 nd May,
and by Coincidence , lived most of my life in Palmers green,
If Broomfield park could talk,ha.

Hello and welcome , that sounds most odd so you are saying with your baofeng on vfo and on a repeter output you cant hear nothing ?

do you have the correct CTCSS programmed in like 118.8 etc and the correct +/- shift being aware 2m shifts different to 70cm shift . 2m has a -600 khz shift and 70cm a + 1.6mhz i believe . I know your not licenced so you do not actually need to programe in the repeter shifts in just to listen , you can save the repeter output freqency under a name like GB3WH etc . have you got someone else to transit with a pmr handheld or a local ham ?

Bloody ell Ant small world if you still lived near Broomfield I could test your radio on PMR like what Matt cergested, try what Matt said cos he is tons more up on the subject than me about baofengs

I'm no expert with baofengs and dont want to be ... far better less than £80 handhelds out there that worth spending a bit more on . Yaesu ft4xe is around £60 so much easier better audio and better reciever . But best bit Is it's so easy to use .

I have had baofengs but moved on . But good for the price .

Very true Matt there OK for money ya pay for them ,what I ment was your more knowledgeable about the repeaters and Amateur stuff than me ,dont think anyone wants to become a expert on Baofengs lol

Ant wrote:

Morning guys,can any body help, I have been happily listening to my little Baofeng, am waiting for my exam in May,
But it has gone deaf !
Picks up CW ,picks up record on local repeater” This is ect”
But no actual voice,
Tested with my small other PMR and received my  voice message .
Even bought a Siro 2070h and magmount to try on the car,
To get better reception,
Deleted all my Channels,
Have re input local repeaters.
The strange thing is it stops on channels ,the light comes on,
It waits as if hearing something, but again no voice.
If any bodies can help this newbie,
I would be great full.

If it's picking up the repeater's ident then it hasn't gone deaf. Make sure that you've not got any CTCSS or Tone Squelch enabled for receive. Put it in VFO mode and tune it to the output of the repeater and then listen.

I'm betting you've accidentally enabled something.

Hi guys thanks for all your help,
After much In-depth research( you tube)
I have discovered that there is a common fault with these cheap radios,
In that use of the ear piece can sometimes cause a feed back ,which shorts the small
Speaker ,
Basically it’s dead now,
Will have to wait till pay day,
The Yaesu ft 4 xe has been recommended,
Any other options guys ,
Can manage £100 with out the boss finding out.

Either the FT-4XE or the FT-65E which is £15 more and has 4 programmable buttons on the front which you may find useful.

However if it had suffered the fault you said I'd expect it to lose all audio, not just what is transmitted after a repeater ident. Have you done a full reset of the radio yet?

Hi Northern crusader,
Have done reset multiple times, I have another small pmr and I could pick that up as a test any time,
But it doesn’t any more, it still stops on the right channel, but no audio.
Thanks for the recommendation.