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Those will work just fine.

Um, yea, i was looking to see if those were still some of the better options out there or if there was anything better.

I just wish there weren’t 40 varieties of radios from them. It gets hard to figure out what’s different about all of them and which ones are newer. They have a dizzying amount of models.

"it was you...i learned it by watching you alright"

One would think, but I’ve had some Baofengs that just wouldn’t connect unless the width setting was aligned.

Thanks! I will stick with my RD-5R and DM-5R with memory chip upgrade modifications: I have all the batteries I need, except maybe a USB-C or two. They do Ham 2 meters and 440 MHz, GMRS and MURS and DMR.

You watched the wrong Youtube videos if you are only seeing stuff that is 2 or 3 years old. The high-end, QUALITY YouTubers review all new GMRS radios as soon as they are available .. ...just sayin...

I have recently come to appreciate NOAA weather alerts coming to my HT. I’m also looking to move up in my radio selection and I think this might be a good time to upgrade. i’ve watched a lot of YouTube videos and did some research but most of the information is 2 to 3 years old. What would be some recommendations for an GMRS HT that is somewhat water resistant and has the ability to receive NOAA weather alerts? BTECH GMRS PRO and Wouxun 935 plus seem to show promise.

Thank you very much!!

Good chance it's dead, email them and they'll send out a new one for you. QC seems to be nearly non existent with them. Good radios are good and usually stay that way, bad radios usually come in dead and there's no reviving them. I have 2 dead ones that eventually I'll pull apart to see if it's just a bad solder joint or something simple. They do transmit, just not that far so the local oscillator is working.

I'm really that way also, just threw LZ out there as a joke. I can't think of a genre of music that doesn't have something I don't like in it. Mine is the a/c in the shack, seems to warble a nice mark/space after those RTTY Contests go silent.

No, not for most radios. His combination of previous batteries resulted in charging voltages after charge completion, that were too high for the radio.

Is this true in general?

Workarounds are the industry standard. My dead radios came in dead. Never even saw a charge cycle.

The battery isn't - the contacts are on the inside face. It's a 5RM or 5RH variant not a UV-5R.

So TIDRadio said they're sending me a new one. They also said this in the email: "Tip: When charging, please separate the battery from the walkie-talkie and charge the battery alone. This can provide the best protection for both the battery and the device." Tell me the batteries are defective without telling me the batteries are defective.

You typed that like it is a BAD thing.

I hope you lick this thing. You are very brave.

Are the accessories on this model compatible with UV-5R accessories, specifically the higher capacity UV-5R batteries?

Thank you for sharing your insider knowledge.

The story I heard wasn't about a place name. It was that Baofeng is a family name and the family objected to its use for these radios. That's when I first started seeing Pofung as a brand. But I wasn't referring to branding but rather what it shows on the manufacturer label on the back of a recent radio I bought. And as far as that Fuji Nana stuff goes, I've also seen other stuff like Quansheng Electronics. It's apparently whatever they want to call it - neither companies nor brands mean the same thing in China as here. My UV-5G says "Po Fung Electronic(HK) International Group Company" and that's from 2022. p.s. I don't know what your Pro version is but the BFF9 I got (supposed to have been an improved BFF8 with 8 watts like an HP) was terrible, extremely low power on 440 and same as 5W models on 2m. Worst UV5R type I ever got.

As a musician, there are far too many bands I like to call only one a favorite I always enjoy hearing my refrigerator calling "cq fd" when it squeaks after the contest ends

RG400 is silver plated conductors, double shield and Teflon dielectric. It's what Motorola specifically uses for all their commercial radio jumpers up to 800 Mhz. If you are not familiar with putting connectors on cables, it's a better move to just buy premade jumpers that are pretested and verified to be good. The bit of extra money is worth the piece of mind you get in knowing they will work and are assembled correctly. For 50 or 100 watts, its fine, the losses are not that significant in the 24 inches of cable that going to a different cable would really make a difference in system performance. And the cable is flexible enough that you don't have to fight it like you would LMR400 or any other .429 diameter RG8 class cable. If you REALLY can't be convinced that it's the right stuff however and want that extra diameter, the go with RG393 jumpers. Same construction as RG400 / RG142 (142 is a solid center conductor) but it's the .429 diameter. Your looking at about 15 bucks a FOOT for 393 if it brand name like Belden. And if you ARE going to build your own cables, buy brand name connectors and not the crap on Amazon. There are good connectors on Amazon, but there is some really cheap stuff too that for a repeater, I just wouldn't bother. Remember that repeaters are a fixed station. Meaning once you install it at a location, it's just gonna be there. They don't get moved around like from place to place. Better 'stuff' being used to build it means less screwing with it and less problems down the road.

Technically, they're "Fujian [Nan’an] Baofeng Electronics Co." The Pofung business was because they never trademarked Baofeng in the US (it is a place name, so it would be like trying to trademark "Miami"). But someone trademark-squatted in the US and it took Baofeng quite some time to get the trademark assignment invalidated and assigned to them. During that period, radios intended for import into the US were labeled Pofung. Any Baofeng OEM customer can request whatever labeling they want (within reason, presumably Baofeng would reject a request to label any of their products as "Motorola"). Some of their OEM customers seem to still be requesting the Pofung branding, simply because it isn't as well-known in the US.

My understanding is that if the radio itself is branded as BTECH, it is contract manufactured for them to their specs (by someone other than Baofeng). If the radio itself is branded as Baofeng (regardless of whether the box only says BTECH), it is a customized model from Baofeng which is usually (always?) exclusive to BTECH. For example, the UV-82HP is a BTECH exclusive, although there are generic tri-power UV-82s. My work on the BF-F8HP Pro (a BTECH exclusive) shows that BTECH is listening to customer feedback (many requests from Facebook, here, and other places) and it has been incorporated into the two firmware updates released so far, with more to come). It is also quite ahead of other analog Baofeng handhelds in terms of features, bug fixes, and programming software (Disclaimer: I write the Windows CPS programming software for the BF-F8HP Pro and co-manage firmware development, as well as dabbling in documentation. However, nothing I post should be considered an official statement of BTECH.) Speaking of the BF-F8HP Pro, if you use coupon code "CPS" at checkout you'll get 20% off (on that model only, and only on the BTECH website, not on Amazon). I should point out that the BF-F8HP Pro is not type approved for GMRS use, but since the equipment reviews rules were relaxed a while ago to allow discussions of non-GMRS equipment due to the overlap between the GMRS and ham communities, mentioning it here should be OK.