<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Wouxun makes the KG-UV8e tri-band not too terribly priced. <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Jardy Dawson WA7JRD<div>Message sent through sub space hailing frequencies <span style="font-size: 13pt;">using the Universal Translator. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br></span></div></div><div><br>On Aug 4, 2018, at 07:56, Chuck Hast <<a href="mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com">kp4djt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">I bought the BaoFeng UV-5x3 to get access to 220 mHz as I do not have a radio on that band<div>it is great for just traveling around and being able to hit repeaters from your hotel room or if</div><div>you have an external antenna on the vehicle you can hook up to it, even as a mobile. It is given</div><div>to intermod when you are in high population areas but beyond that the only other thing that</div><div>comes to mind is it is a wee bit slow in the RX<>TX transitions, but you learn to live with it.</div><div><br></div><div>For the price it is hard to beat, and it you do break it do you do not cry too much.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 10:00 PM Michael Butler <<a href="mailto:riobravoxray@gmail.com">riobravoxray@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Password protection may be a nice feature, but you may lock others out in an emergency situation, and in those cases anyone can use the radio if needed in an emergency where the primary operator is incapacitated. Something to consider. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Michael W0MTB</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 7:47 PM Bryan Santucci via chirp_users <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">if anyone has any input to the manufacturer, a great thing to add is a way to password protect the radio from unauth. use. Be great!!<br>
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> The one radio I looked at so far was the BaoFeng UV-5x3<br>
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Just to be clear, this is a BTech radio manufactured for and sold by<br>
Baofeng Tech (the radio dealer in the USA). Even though it resembles,<br>
the UV-5R and other similar Baofeng radio models, it is not made by<br>
Baofeng (the radio manufacturer in China).<br>
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Jim KC9HI<br>
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