no channels to store frequencies? that can't be right...even the cheapest 
crappiest chinese handhelds have channel storage...sometimes that is all 
they have...I can't imagine a vfo only radio these days.
same with tone...very strange indeed.

73
Colin, V A6BKX

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From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 7:04 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: New Baofeng Hand-helds

> I didn't look at the complete menuing system as we took the radio apart 
> about as
> soon as I got there but the first one that I noticed being gone was the 
> channels
> for storing frequencies etc.  Tone capability seemed to be gone or 
> severely
> restricted as did some of the more commercial stuff such as identification
> sequences.  You have to program those on the '5' series but I didn't see 
> them in
> the '8' menu at all.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html