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I'm not trying to be confrontational, but you are demonstrably wrong. I bought this radio in October for a project I didn't end up doing and it has been packed just the way I received it since. This is how the radio came with the antenna wrapped around the inside of the box. As you can see, it comes out of the box almost perfectly straight. I have gotten several this way and all of them lost that little bit of bend eventually.

@TerriKennedy If you have any influence with BTech, two things I'd like to see them make higher quality versions of are (1) battery eliminators (my experience is with ones for UV-5R and compatible models), and (2) speaker mics. A third would be earphones with mic button with a more durable cord (I've replaced a bunch of those). I use the earphones indoors but would like to use the speaker mic outside if there was a good one available.

This is a good thing. My first hand held I bought was a GT-5R from BTech's Amazon store. I was missing the ear piece and they were very quick to respond when I contacted them. They went above and beyond, they sent a new charging base, ear piece and a hand mic.

That should be an interesting review. People have had bad experiences with through glass antennas when installed on vehicles with tinted windows. Some of those use metal in the glass. Surprised nobody mentions to watch out for this.

Wow! looks a lot better than my collection of radios stuff into plastic food storage boxes on a couple of roll-around shelve units.

Terri, that’s an impressive stack of uniformly sized boxes. At least through BTech, it appears that Baofeng has a standard single radio box. That makes sense from a cost standpoint. I wouldn’t want either a small rattler or a long antenna bent nearly double in one of those boxes. Randy, let Terri be. She’s one of the good ones we really want to keep. She doesn’t come here and act like one of the several resident assholes we’ve had. She backs up her points with facts, figures, and photos. I have no idea whether the boxes you’ve experienced are differently printed but same size (as her photos indicate happens) or whether you have received 34 different sizes, but the argument isn’t really important enough to drive one of the good ones away. I don’t doubt that some sellers bend 15” flexible antennas to fit the boxes, but one time it happened to me the antenna took on a bit of a permanent arch. A friend gifted me a Wouxun and couldn’t find the original rubber duck so he bent his 15” antenna into the outer shipping box and sent it instead. The other time I received a 15” antenna it was in my packaged with my very first Baofeng, in a larger box with a “covert earpiece”, a PTT microphone, a charger, etc. some of the pieces, like the antenna, were marked TidRadio, and others said Baofeng. Perhaps some value added reseller put together a special package of accessories as so many on the Amazon Marketplace do. In any case, it’s not important enough to berate people over.

More lies and misinformation Tammy! People stand up and call BS to my face every day.

I was going to let this slide. But hey, it's Tuesday and I'm under my quota of arguments for the week so far... 1) It's Terri with an "i", short for Teresa. Which you'd know if you'd ever used any of my CPS programs. 2) Standard box size. Let's see. Here's a picture of 16 different Baofeng models in their boxes. I'm sorry I could only stack 4 high by 4 wide before I ran out of space. Front and top views. These are all single radios (which is what started this post). Obviously a box for a pair of radios, or more, would be larger. 3) "Nearly every radio manufactured by Baofeng (dozens)" Yup. Riggghhhhttttt. I have 34 different models, all unboxed, right now in my line of sight, not to mention the ones in the boxes in the pictures. Nor all of the ones I've given away. Here's a screen capture from a Baofeng factory promotional video where it shows just a small part of their showroom before the image pans around and looks down rows and rows of different models on display. 4) I could probably stuff a small rattlesnake into a standard size Baofeng box. Neither it, a 15" antenna, or the customer would be happy when the box was opened. You come along, all high and mighty with your proclamations here because you're a Youtube superstar with (as of just now) 266K subscribers and almost nobody is willing to stand up and call "BS" to your face. Well, surprise! Note that I only wrote this reply because you tried just about everything you could to provoke a response from me. Normally I'm easygoing and try to be helpful when answering questions here, without sarcasm or denigrating the other person. Now, let's all return to our respective corners and try to behave civilly, OK?

At least with BTECH, you know you're dealing with a real human in South Dakota.

You may want to google what gear we used to use on these...

Calm down Queenie. I was trying to get him to understand it's not "dual on both". Sounded like by both bands he may also be thinking of bands A and B as the two frequency bands in VFO mode, rather than Line A and B.

Which to a normal person, using normal ears, appears to be "listening to two channels at the same time"... Next you going to explain to us how "movies don't really move"? Geezusphuckingkrist "some people" are insufferable..

Sounds like you're misunderstanding. There is no "dual monitoring on both bands". It alternates automatically between checking Display A and Display B. It only receives on one or the other at one time. And the dual watch setting is called TDR on the UV5R function menu.

No wait! the earth is flat...google that S@#t

Seriously? Radio jail? How would you be 'punked' in there? People walk away so you cant hear them? Do they just now respond to conversation? Step behind an object to not engage? Would your prison number be your callsign you didn't use? Would you have to make up a crazy story to be accepted, like a renegade repeater of something...LOL

He's the only one in most of the videos.

Music is math is music. At some colleges, some music classes are accepted as required math credits. My wife's best friend got out of several math classes via that route.

He's the star of the video!

Lucky Sears is everywhere. Seems like it is always hard to find Homer Atkins. I have a friend who is half Chinese and half Hungarian/American. Her parents were very clever, her Chinese names are her middle names and are the same as her English language name framed around the Chinese.

A friend with a doctorate in industrial psychology once told me that aptitudes for math correspond with aptitudes for music.

Thank you!

Yes, dual monitoring on both bands, A and B.

Thank @OffRoaderX, he made the video.

Thanks for the you tube that helps a bunch!! WSEU 498 Fatrat56

YouTube, look for videos from the Notarubicon channel. One specifically describes configuring a radio for a repeater.