Originally Posted by
K6CPO
The Wouxun Dual-Band HTs are very popular, but from what I hear (I don't have one) there are the devil to program by hand. The upside is that the programming cables cost about $15.00 and the software is free.
Wouxun KG-UVD1P all the way, Love it, but the best fifteen dollars I ever spent was on the programming cable. It's not a serious pan in the a** to program by hand, I would say that the people who say it is a PITA are the Yaesu groupies that want auto-repeater shift and GPS and a built in TNC and just boatloads of absolutely unnecessary ( in my mind only though ) bells and whistles. I love it to death, but I do think it needs a better antenna, even with a tigertail on it, it kind of sucks. Then again, what do you expect from a rubber duck antenna?
The KG-UVD1P is a solid, dependable little rig, and no...I am not affiliated with them. Even though I haven't operated anything besides this radio, I am sure that I will never pick up a VX-8R or anything like it, just because its a bunch of unneeded junk piled into a radio; Am I the only one left that thinks a radio should be a radio, and not a computer masquerading as a radio?
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- At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Okinawa
