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The Chinese radios really have changed the radio game. My apartment complex acquired a bunch of BF888's. I essentially help resale the UV5R's. I generally program with Chirp unless I specifically need to remove the vfo. I've noticed several things with the radios. A) Don't try and hot swap the programming cable or speaker/mic. Turn the radio off. I've seen many people blow either the ptt out speaker on the radio (usually works fine with a speaker Mic though). the receivers are good, the squelch circuits suck. They can get a little annoying on high rf environments, even with a receive pl on. C) I've found the stock UHF antenna on the bf-888 has 2-3 more dB of gain on the dual band antenna...and a Motorola Jedi series UHF antenna has 3 dB more gain than the "high gain" UHF antenna (same bandwidth). The Motorola antenna can be found on Amazon for $8. D) if you trash one, you are out $15-30.

This is a great system for the day to day user. Well done team! If possible, could you add a Disaster Relief teams, search and rescue teams. State, county info Type of resource radio comm, s&r How many volunteers Any emergency equip Generator, canopy, repeaters, radios, trailer etc Primary and secondary. Contact info Phone & address, web, email Any other affiliation, REACT, red cross, arrl etc Should not be open to all to join, request must be sent To team designee.. Team contact info should be public so Emergency operators can request them Thank you