If you look up "baofeng uv8" on Amazon it will take you to a number of reviews
on the things.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Colin McDonald wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:26:25 -0700
> From: Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: New Baofeng Hand-helds
>
> 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
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>