Martin,

That radio may just have been ahead of its time, trying to do spread 
spectrum.

Steve


On 12/12/2012 16:07, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> Thank you. That helps a lot.
>
> 	These have the potential for being about as accessible
> as one could reasonably want. The one I was recently looking at
> announced the channel numbers as one turned the selector and
> that is extremely helpful especially if you are not sure if you
> bumped it or not.
>
> 	One kind of interesting anecdote. Here in Stillwater,
> some of the emergency services workers use the Wouxun
> commercial-grade transceivers and one of the radios will
> sometimes spontaneously switch to announcing the channel in
> Chinese. The technician reprograms it back to what it was and it
> will work for a while and then revert to its native tongue once
> again. I imagine it has a sick CPU or more likely some bad memory. I believe
> the person who told me about this said it still worked fine as a
> radio. Let's hope it doesn't totally loose its marbles and start
> scanning in transmit mode or something.
>
> 	We had a Motorola base station, here, that did something
> like that once. Talk about a fox hunt. It's synthesizer went
> totally bonkers and it stepped through thousands of frequencies
> from 2 meters up to whatever and that system cost big Bucks.
>
> Martin
>
> Buddy Brannan writes:
>    
>> It works with the KG-UVD1P, KG-UV2D, and KG-UV3D. These are basically =
>> the same radio. the 6D/6X/6whatever are different, at least a little =
>> different.=20
>>      
>
>