Hi,

All the Wouxun radios will read the channel numbers.

If the radio reverts to Chinese, yeah, I reckon it's got bad memory or something as well. Without looking, I think the voice is on menu 9, and English is option 2, but watch someone look it up on the eyes-free guide and prove me wrong. Ah well. Anyway, yes, they're good radios, very accessible, no problem at all with them. I've had a UVD1P for about 3.5 years now.
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Dec 12, 2012, at 4:07 PM, "Martin G. McCormick" <[log in to unmask]> 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