How to Disable Transmit and Use Your Baofeng Radio as a Scanner

In this video I show you how to both globally disable transmit and how to selectively disable transmit on certain channels.

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The exact programming cable I used in this video is no longer available. The Cheaper Programming cable below is a close comparison. Some people have had problems with the cheaper cables. This seems to be due to Windows blacklisting certain cable drivers. If you are using Windows you may want to consider buying the more expensive FTDI programming cable. If you are using Linux the cheaper programming cable should work fine.

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