Horsefeathers. The Wouxun isn't hard or tedious to program by hand at all. The manual is crap, no question about it, but it's no harder than, say, the old Icom O2AT.
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Jul 3, 2011, at 8:40 PM, John Miller wrote:
> I don't know,I know people who program commercial radios for a living who
> say those are almost impossible to program manually without a lot of time in
> reading the manual. That's people who program commercial radios while the
> software may make it seem easier, with commercial radios there is no offset,
> you put in the receive and transmit frequency for each channel, power level
> for each channel and often much more. I can say though these programs that
> default to the 2 meter offset no matter which band you're on, I'd rather
> those make you enter the transmit frequency than change the offset for every
> band or memory channel that's not in 2 meters.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chad morrison" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: wouxun ht
>
>
>> ya, I don't know what they are talking about to be real about it. I
>> programmed the first time that way. I just set up a band for UHF and the
>> other band for VHF and set up the off sets respectively. not that big of
>> deal. Not really any worse than programming anything else. Maybe in most
>> radios you don't have to set the offset/power setting and they don't like
>> the extra steps. I don't know it has been a long time sense I have
>> programmed anything else. I just like this radio because when it is
>> speeking english it takes alot of the guess work out of most of it. lol
>> Chad
>> KB9TZR
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "KK4AHX Darren Duff" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 6:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: wouxun ht
>>
>>
>>> Yup. If you have a look at the eyes free manual you can learn how to
>>> program
>>> it by hand.... Some people say it's a pain but once you get use to it
>>> it's
>>> not that bad.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 73's.
>>>
>>> Darren Duff.
>>>
>>> amateur radio station KK4AHX.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cherokee Amateur Radio Society.
>>>
>>> http://www.cherokeehams.com
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of chad morrison
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 6:19 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: wouxun ht
>>>
>>> I'm starting to think that might be my problem.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "KK4AHX Darren Duff" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 2:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: wouxun ht
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have the 2 D but mine doesn't do that. I didn't use the software to
>>>> program it. I did it by hand.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 73's.
>>>>
>>>> Darren Duff.
>>>>
>>>> amateur radio station KK4AHX.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cherokee Amateur Radio Society.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cherokeehams.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>> On Behalf Of chad morrison
>>>> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 8:47 AM
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: wouxun ht
>>>>
>>>> Hello, I was wondering if anyone on this list owns the wouxun ht =
>>>> kg-uv2d?
>>>> If so are any of you having the problem of the radio resetting = itself
>>>> to
>>>> factory defaults? This is my second radio now I returned the = last
>>>> radio
>>>> for doing the same thing. I have only been using the wouxun = software
>>>> to
>>>> program the radio because I thought maby the owx programming = software
>>>> might have done something to the radio. However, this radio = that I've
>>>> only had for a cupple months is starting to act the same way = the old
>>>> one
>>>> did. Your input will be helpful to me and if anyone can = think of
>>>> anything
>>>> I might be doing wrong I am open to those Ideas as = well.=20 thanks,
>>>> Chad
>>>> KB9TZR
>>>>
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