Tag: baofeng
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Two Cheap Ways to Get Into DMR
Part of our Getting On The Air: Modes, Operations, and Making Contacts guide. DMR is one of the cheapest digital modes to actually get on the air with, and you don’t need a nearby repeater to do it. There are two realistic paths in: buy a little hardware, or skip the hardware entirely and run…
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Radio Field Cards: Quick-Reference Programming Guides
Part of our Handheld Radios (HTs) guide. I keep pulling up the same four questions on every new radio that lands on the bench: how do I program a repeater, how do I get into VFO mode, how do I adjust power, and how do I scan. Every radio buries these in a different menu…
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Baofeng UV-5R Review: Why I No Longer Recommend It
Part of our Handheld Radios (HTs) guide. I don’t own a UV-5R anymore, and at this point I don’t recommend picking one up. It’s still the radio that got more people licensed and on the air than almost anything else over the last decade, and that matters even with a mediocre receiver. But the market…
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Six Handheld Radios Compared: Kenwood TH-D75A, AnyTone AT-D890UV, VGC VR-N76, Wouxun UV-9P, Baofeng UV-5R Mini, and TIDRADIO H3
From a $30 pocket radio to a $700 D-STAR flagship, here’s how six very different handhelds actually compare on features, price, and who each one is really for.