It is. If I wanted to go into business selling junque from Asia, this would be a good start.
The Woxoun HTs and similar are all in there, for about 40% lower cost points than what you see them advertised for, but you have to buy 100 at a time, as the prices are all "crate" quantities.
One of the dual-band (2m/70cm) Chinese hand helds I see advertised for about $100 is in the HKTD for $64. All you have to do is buy a crate of them.
Might be an interesting sideline business someday.
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I'm sure you've played with the various tone settings to get more mid and bottom. Also increasing the bandwidth will improve frequency response on the bottom. I'm sure that rig has multiple settings for both. When you are judging its audio quality are you doing it by listening to an RF signal received from a transmitted signal or just an audio monitor?
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