Boafeng programming by hand. Important basic skill to know.

@Sad_HAMs_ @Brushbeater your Baofeng guide is outstanding 💪

@Sad_HAMs_ Thanks man!

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Listen and implement. I don’t hate CHIRP. I don’t love it either. What I worry about is becoming so reliant on it that you can’t program a radio without a computer. Hand-jamming—front-panel programming, or FPP—is a small skill, but a useful one. What do you do with an unprogrammed radio when your computer isn’t nearby? What if you link up with another group and need to build an SOI in the field? What if your big-hearted but not particularly bright nephew wipes his radio’s memory? And if he leaves it behind, the channels in that radio may give OPFOR more information than they need. Even if you rotate frequencies, a lost radio exposes the current list. Keep only the bare minimum in it. With practice, I can hand-jam several repeaters, including offsets and CTCSS tones, about as fast as I can get CHIRP and the programming cable set up. Efficiency matters. So does being able to do it when the computer isn’t there.

Your book was excellent. I was lost without it. Still not great but at least I can communicate with my group now.

Thank you!!!

I have that same exact radio. Oh wait, I got it from you

Just switched back to the stock antenna for that radio. Seems to work better for me.

When someone gonna have knob protectors in stock for those

Nice

Just ordered one off Amazon!

do you have some good patriot bands to add?

is it hard to program by hand?