>>620049>Hamtards swear by it, it's becoming a new standard.Standard for cheap chinese disposable radios....
>>620215>for 35 bucks it cannot be beat. you can get the 2m and 70cm band, and some stuff in between like marine. although, technically, even if you have your ham license you are not supposed to use that radio for marine transmission.>this radio sucks on many levels. but the fact of the matter is that it can get you into the uhf/vhf door for 35 bucks and that is a good thing.This.
As a radio, it sucks.
For $30, it's a fantastic radio for the money.
Type-certification, etc etc... yeah. Know what you're doing with it, don't be a shitlord on-air, nobody's going to give a fuck.
The receivers are awful, usually don't TX at rated power, and they're not very durable. But it's thirty.fucking.dollars.
>>620237>Baofengs are fantastic for the price. But the computer cable and download CHiRP for best results.I came from the Vertex/Yaesu world... and I thought those radios had a terribad UI. The Baofengs blow them out of the water (and not in a good way). The menus are cryptic, settings are 'weird', general operation is just half-baked.
I'd love to reverse-engineer and stick a new chip with my own firmware in it... build the UI into something useable. It could be a much better radio than it is if they'd spend a few bucks to have someone design the UI better.
But yeah, CHIRP makes the process a hell of a lot simpler.
>just slammed in new firmware, codeplug, and voice files into my motorola 