One often-heard complaint about the low-priced Chinese ham
rigs that are making big inroads into the U.S. market is that the quality of
the user manuals does not match that of the radios. Help is on the way, reports
Newsline, which says a group calling itself the Radio Documentation
Project is working to produce high-quality, in-depth, open-souce manuals for
Chinese-built handhelds. The first one completed is for the Baofeng UV-5R
dual-bander. It may be downloaded for free, in PDF format, from
<tinyurl.com/new-uv5r-booklet>.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Operating Help for Owners of Chinese Ham Rigs
One often-heard complaint about the low-priced Chinese ham
rigs that are making big inroads into the U.S. market is that the quality of
the user manuals does not match that of the radios. Help is on the way, reports
Newsline, which says a group calling itself the Radio Documentation
Project is working to produce high-quality, in-depth, open-souce manuals for
Chinese-built handhelds. The first one completed is for the Baofeng UV-5R
dual-bander. It may be downloaded for free, in PDF format, from
<tinyurl.com/new-uv5r-booklet>.