Thursday, February 18, 2016

Baofeng Tech UV-2501+220: A wee tiny radio with a lot of capability

Some initial impressions from someone that's picked up the UV-2501+220:
"a wee tiny radio with a lot of capability"


I agree with several of the comments there - especially about the size. It is small, but I didn't feel like the buttons were too hard to access. Using the mic to program in a repeater was not especially painful as those things go - I don't think manually programming 100 repeaters would be high on anyone's list. Getting the programming cable will make life much easier.

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  1. Looking on Amazon it appears that a few people are reporting that these have extremely dirty transmitters.

    Guess they were too good to be true after all.

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    1. The testing results are being posted on reddit, too. I'm working on a post about all of this.

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    2. Hopefully they will correct the issues in later versions. That's part of the reason I have to resist the temptation to be an early adopter of new Chinese radios coming in.

      It takes them a few months to iron out the kinks.

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