you can get wouxun radios with those features...I don't know if you can get 
a 220 and 440 model, but certainly a 2M and 220MHZ model.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: accessible portable radios


> Didn't one of those companies give you a choice on hts, 2m and 220, 220
> and 440 and so forth?
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Colin McDonald wrote:
>
>> no, the uv5R cannot be modified to work on the 220 band.
>> there have been reports that it can be made to transmit up to just above
>> 500MHZ, but no more than that.
>>
>> 73
>> Colin, V A6BKX
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John J Jacques" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 4:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: accessible portable radios
>>
>>
>>>                Hi all, is there a mod for the UV5R to cover 220?  The
>>> ICT90A will do it, but it only puts out miliwatts
>>> on that band!
>>>
>>> By the way, my UV5R will not speak Chinese, the menu choices are only 0
>>> and 1.
>>>
>>> 73:
>>> John
>>>
>>> John Jacques
>>> Amateur Radio Station:
>>> KD8PC, Currently on the laptop.
>>> "Where Cat Is, Is Civilization"
>>
>>